Domestic Violence Content Topic Results
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- NRCDV Publications
October 2016
How do I effectively engage my community in ending domestic violence? Build a collection of awesomeness.
Publisher(s): In NRCDV's November 2016 TA Question of the month, Ivonne Ortiz offers advice on how to engage communities beyond DVAM.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
October 2016
WEBINAR: Girls for Gender Equity: Centering Girls of Color within the Racial and Gender Justice Movement of the 21st Century
Publisher(s):In this webinar, presenters shared their radical and visionary approaches to promoting racial and gender justice and the critical importance it has to addressing and preventing domestic and sexual violence.
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- General Material
October 2016
Fact Sheet: Immigrant Access to Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing
Publisher(s):This fact sheet offers information about immigrant eligibility to access emergency shelter and transitional housing.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
October 2016
WEBINAR: Keeping Your Cup Full: Self-Care is Essential to Trauma Informed Advocacy
Publisher(s):This webinar offers strategies for dealing with daily work related stress, increases awareness of the issue of vicarious trauma, and provides ideas in order to gain organizational support to help sustain and support those working with survivors of trauma
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- General Material
October 2016
Shelter Tipsheets
Publisher(s): This series of tip sheets from FORGE is designed to assist domestic violence shelters in making their programs trans-inclusive.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
October 2016
Building LGBTQ Responses Within the Austin, Texas Police Department
Publisher(s):Law enforcement’s response to intimate partner violence and sexual assault within LGBTQ communities is often unsatisfactory. This webinar from the Battered Women's Justice Project highlights a few cities' effort to build change from within the police, and how trusting relationships can create positive outcomes for LGBTQ communities.
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- General Material
October 2016
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and HIV-Affected Intimate Partner Violence Annual Report
Publisher(s): This annual report contains detailed demographic data on survivors and victims of violence, information on abusive partners, and data on police, medical, and other direct service responses to LGBTQ and HIV-affected survivors. Reports dating back to 1998 can be found in the archives.
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- General Material
September 2016
LGBTQ DV Targeted Recommendation: Involve, Learn From, and Build the Leadership of LGBTQ Youth
Publisher(s): Young people ages 12-24 experience violent crime at higher rates than the rest of the population. This targeted recommendation provides considerations and strategies for creating youth programming that lifts up the self-determination of LGBTQ youth experiencing violence.
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- General Material
September 2016
LGBTQ DV Targeted Recommendation: Ensure that all Referrals to 911 and Law Enforcement are Informed, Individual, and Based on a Reasonable Expectation of Benefit in the Specific Situation
Publisher(s): This targeted recommendation highlights the historic challenges with law enforcement that domestic violence survivors, and especially diverse LGBTQ survivors, experience. This recommendation outlines considerations for mainstream and culturally-specific organizations regarding their referrals to law enforcement given this history of harm.
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- General Material
September 2016
Refugee Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence: Barriers to Access
Publisher(s):This fact sheet identifies the barriers refugee survivors of domestic and sexual violence face and approaches that can mitigate their impact.
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- General Material
September 2016
LGBTQ DV Targeted Recommendation: Building Evidence Base for Effective LGBTQ Community Domestic Interventions, Programs, and Approaches
Publisher(s): This targeted recommendation from the National LGBTQ Institute on IPV outlines the rationale for researchers, funders, and LGBTQ-specific programs to conduct research and build evidence of the effectiveness of their work.
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- General Material
September 2016
When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2014 Homicide Data
Publisher(s):The study covers homicides involving one female murder victim and one male offender, and uses data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Supplementary Homicide Report.