Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

This Toolkit organizes information, resources, tips and tools drawn from the wealth of information gathered when the two service systems were convened through local collaborative projects funded by the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Este recurso hace conexiones entre la equidad en la salud y nuestro trabajo para prevenir la violencia sexual y de pareja íntima. Centra las historias de los sobrevivientes en las intersecciones del racismo sistémico, la violencia y la opresión. En él se estudian formas de crear capacidad individual y a nivel organizativo para hacer frente a la desigualdad en materia de salud. Y, ofrece un llamado a la acción para aquellos quienes están dispuestos a comprometerse con la equidad de la salud en su trabajo de prevención de la violencia de género.

Historically, the domestic violence (DV) field has separated services for adults and services for children and youth, rather than taking an integrated approach that centers the relationships between adult survivors and their children. The Family-Centered Toolkit helps programs envision and implement an integrated approach that supports parent-child relationships and families with a range of culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and developmentally sensitive services.

In order to meet the cultural and racial needs of Afro-Latin@s, it is important that gender-based violence organizations prioritize models that center anti-discriminatory practices. This document from Esperanza United offers promising practices and a call to action to meet the unique needs of Afro-Latin@ survivors of gender-based violence.

Although intervention and prevention have long been a part of our approach to addressing issues around domestic and other forms of violence, racial justice has not. In this strategy session from NRCDV's 2021 Prevention Town Hall, presenters will intentionally center Black people’s stories and lived experiences as the impetus for integrating a racial justice-centric approach into our work and mission.

Men have a significant impact when ending violence, especially Intimate partner violence. In this session from NRCDV's 2021 Prevention Town Hall, participants hear from panel members who are working with men and boys in their unique fields. This session inspires deeper conversations about advocacy oriented behaviors and best practices, peer-to-peer accountability, and communication strategies which move us away from "call out culture" and to more solution and restorative justice oriented practices.

The Day 2 opening panel of NRCDV's 2021 Prevention Town Hall features the voices and lived experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color advocates who are leading prevention in their organizations and communities. Panelists reflect on what is needed to create real transformative change that centers racial justice.

Infusing our prevention work with a trauma-informed framework has always been essential to create safer space for the survivors we serve. Now that we are collectively navigating twin pandemics, trauma-informed practices are all the more necessary. This workshop from the 2021 Prevention Town Hall explores how to integrate intersectionality into our trauma-informed prevention practice.

This session from NRCDV's 2021 Prevention Town Hall features the voices and lived experiences of Women of Color advocates/leaders who are leading prevention in their organizations and communities. Presenters reflect on what the current realities of local and Statewide programs and what is needed to disrupt the status quo in order to really elevate WOC survivors towards leadership.

This strategy session from NRCDV's 2021 Prevention Town Hall discusses the systematic intersections of poverty, racism, and other forms of oppression, in regards to financial inequity. Speakers present models of prevention support for survivors, and discuss as a group how this can inform future educational and programmatic prevention work.

Transformative justice is prevention! Victims of abuse are often times reluctant to report and/or share their experiences based on a myriad of reasons. However, the desire for justice and safety is still needed and necessary. This strategy session from NRCDV's 2021 Prevention Town Hall highlights alternative community-based solutions that center victim support and healing. 

This workshop from NRCDV's 2021 Prevention Town Hall critically examines current border policies and the impact that it’s having on asylum seekers fleeing gender-based violence and immigrant victims that reside in border communities. This workshop explores the intersection between racial justice, the movement to end and prevent gender-based violence and immigration justice.