Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

This resource list from ASISTA includes national resources, including webpages dedicated to U visa certification issues and ways to work more effectively with law enforcement.

The aim of this study was to better understand the experience of Latinas who were recipients of the U-Visa and had been victims of domestic violence. While obtaining legal documentation was critical to becoming economically self-sufficient, this study provides a better understanding of the opportunities and challenges that immigrant survivors face in the U-Visa process, as well as gaps in services.

This is a printable brochure with a basic explanation of what credit reports are and how survivors can explain negative information on their credit reports, add positive information, and build a credit history.

This guide includes exercises, examples, and discussion questions to help you customize your laws to meet the needs of your community. This resource was revised and updated in March of 2015, including changes addressing issues concerning the 2010 enactment of the Tribal Law and Order Act and VAWA 2013.

This webinar is a panel discussion among three staff members from Alaska social justice organizations discussing how issues involving disability, culture, and gender identity can intersect.

This article discusses the dynamics and tactics commonly encountered in officer-involved domestic violence.

For many victims of domestic violence, access to health care is a critical component of their healing and recovery. NRCDV's January 2015 TA Question of the Month provides information on accessing affordable healthcare under the Affordable Care Act.

Tips and resources on ensuring access for victims who have additional language access needs.

This article addresses the ways in which some acts of violence against women are often characterized as "honor killings," and asserts that this a form of labeling other "Others" as being backward and inherently more violent than western cultures. The author stresses the importance of rejecting this narrative.

With only a few small steps, workplaces can help keep everyone safe and productive. Use the resources in this toolkit to help raise awareness, address employment issues and connect people in your workplace to the assistance they may need.

This tool, available on the “Workplaces Respond” website, will help employers create a workplace policy by guiding employers through a series of questions, offering a choice of model language based on a promising practice (which has the most protective language for employees) or, if applicable, language based on the law in the specific state or locality.

This Guide is intended to assist attorneys and domestic violence victim advocates in their representation and work with battered mother respondents in the United States in cases filed under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.