Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

This document provides data on domestic violence fatalities in Washington State for the year 2013.

This toolkit provides advocates with an overview of services and benefits available at both the federal and local levels for immigrant survivors of sexual and domestic violence. It also gives the eligibility requirements for receiving certain benefits and offers suggestions for best practices in working with immigrant survivors.

In 2013, 35 people were killed in Washington State as a result of domestic violence. This is significantly fewer than the 54 domestic violence deaths in 2012, and the lowest in the seventeen years WSCADV has been collecting this data.

Many survivors of domestic violence have experienced economic abuse — a powerful tactic used by batterers to gain power and control in a relationship — which can have devastating short- and long-term effects. NRCDV's February 2014 TA Question of the Month offers resources for supporting survivors who have experienced economic abuse.

Various domestic violence programs across the country have been integrating assessment for reproductive coercion and helping survivors get emergency contraception during intake or within a 24-hour time period after arrival to shelter.

Billions of images are captured, uploaded online, and distributed electronically every day. This handout discusses safety, privacy, and legal issues around the intersections of domestic and sexual violence, technology, and privacy.

This toolkit includes ideas on how to integrate economic empowerment into your work with survivors of domestic violence through the use of a strengths-based model, an introduction to credit and the importance of credit as an asset, information about Matched Savings Accounts and Individual Development Accounts, and a resource guide to guide you as you start incorporating asset building strategies into your work.

Reproductive Health and Intimate Partner Violence Wheel provides definitions and examples of reproductive coercion and intimate partner violence. The wheel can be used as a training tool for advocates and service providers, as well as a supportive and enlightening resource for survivors.

This TA brief provides considerations and recommendations for program implementation and developments within anti-violence and legal services agencies. It aims to enable LEP survivors to better navigate the significant challenges faced, strengthen advocacy, and further equal access to justice. 

The Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women publishes The Femicide Report, a report on women and children murdered in Minnesota, to educate the public about the lethality of domestic violence and child abuse.

The type of technology that victim service programs use and how it’s implemented can have a profound impact on the safety and privacy of both survivors and agencies. This article from TechSafety.org lists a few things for agencies to consider when using particular technologies.

This infographic, designed for sharing widely via social media, describes eight warning signs of an abusive relationship. One version was designed for youth ages 14-21, while another was developed for young adults ages 21 and up.