Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

Why is it important for us – advocates, healers, and social change makers – to practice radical self-love? In this Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ), NRCDV's Patty Branco explores radical self-love as a pathway toward individual and collective transformation.

Doug Tinder shares his personal healing journey as a male survivor of childhood sexual abuse, emphasizing the importance of breaking the silence, finding appropriate therapy, connecting with other survivors, and building supportive communities.

It is not enough to support survivors in finding employment, but also critical to support survivors in maintaining employment. FreeFrom models the workplace policies survivors say they need to stay employed, including living wage salaries, 401k accounts with an employer match, flexible work hours, paid and protected GBV leave and emergency safety grants, and more.  

Dr. Manning contrasts general stress and trauma, emphasizing that betrayal trauma occurs within a primary attachment relationship (such as a marriage or long-term partnership). Because individuals depend on their primary partner for safety and stability, sexual betrayal shatters fundamental trust, triggering intense emotional distress, hypervigilance, and deep existential confusion.

A guide for domestic violence and mental health service providers, advocates, and organizations to improve services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and Two-Spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) individuals, build partnerships and referral networks with LGBTQIA2S+ culturally-specific organizations, and eliminate bias based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.

Leading with the shared vision that “All families deserve living conditions in which they can thrive,” this graphic illustration utilizes NRCDV’s Storytelling Framework to center survivors of color for whom economic insecurity poses significant barriers to safety and well-being. This resource makes the case for wage equity as a critical pathway to intimate partner violence prevention, and can be used with a variety of audiences as a tool to move people to action.

This series of information sheets provide data and resources to service providers and justice professionals who may work with older victims.

This webinar provides a foundational understanding of abuse in later life and discuss a funding opportunity and resources for addressing abuse in later life in your community.

Workshop participants will walk away with increased knowledge of how oppression can manifest across the socio-ecological model and the importance of interrupting the early onset of oppression before it escalates to a macro level, historical contributions of Black early movement contributors and the values they leaned into that laid a foundation for the anti-violence work that we do today, and more.

In this first-ever U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, the Federal Government advances an unprecedented and comprehensive approach to preventing and addressing sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and other forms of gender-based violence.

For over 50 years, survivors’ voices and realities have shaped responses to domestic and sexual violence. From emergency shelter to sheltering solutions beyond imminent threats of harm, housing has always been a critical part of conversations connected to survivor safety and well-being.

Hosted by DomesticShelters.org, this webinar features licensed professional counselor Sybil Cummin detailing how abusive partners continue to exert power and control after a relationship ends through financial sabotage, legal systems, and domestic violence by proxy using children. She provides advocates and mental health professionals with actionable strategies to educate survivors, document covert abuse tactics, and restore survivor autonomy during high-risk post-separation periods.