Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

Abusers often misuse online platforms, such as Twitter, as a tool to harass, abuse, and stalk. This guide provides specific tips and guidance for Twitter users on increasing their privacy and responding to other users who misuse the platform.

This webinar highlights NCALL’s guiding principles to help victim service providers better serve older adults victims of abuse.

This webinar describes immigration protections and benefits available through gender-based asylum for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

This paper takes a feminist approach to understanding how prevention can be integrated into direct service as a core operating principle of intimate partner violence agencies.

This webinar highlights the Older Survivors of Abuse: A Framework for Advocates summary report from the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), which describes guiding principles, minimum guidelines, and practical strategies to help victim service providers better serve older survivors of abuse.

This toolkit will help community based domestic violence and/or sexual abuse programs assess existing services and provides guidance to enhance program and advocates response to older survivors of abuse.

Domestic violence is linked to many other forms of violence and other health outcomes through shared risk and protective factors. This 2-part webinar series from the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence outlines key research on risk and protective factors and explores ways that local programs can use this research to information DV prevention strategies.

In NRCDV's May 2016 TA Question of the month, Patty Branco highlights the importance of building and sustaining partnerships between domestic violence programs and anti-poverty organizations.

This booklet is a primer on orders of protection and full faith in credit.  This guide helps law enforcement better implement the “full faith and credit” component of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which requires law enforcement officers to enforce valid orders across the boundaries of states, tribes, and territories.

In this video, Mike Rugnetta, host of the PBS Idea Channel, describes violence as being about the removal of choice rather than just physical violence. The video also explains that violence can be passive, and that there is an important ethical dimension to thinking of violence as more than “physical violence,” which is just one of many different kinds of violence.

This briefing paper defines and provides examples of gender-biased policing, suggests ways for police departments to address bias that may underlie certain practices and policies, and offers steps advocates can take to work toward police reform.

This website provides information on VAWA confidentiality and on reporting VAWA confidentiality violation by a DHS employee.