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The Flexible Financial Assistance Implementation Guide and Community Toolkit is designed to support domestic violence/sexual assault agencies, organizations, and service providers in planning, implementing, and sustaining a flexible financial assistance program that is survivor-driven, equitable, and compliant with nonprofit requirements.

This on-demand session includes an introduction to Flexible Financial Assistance, pilot program results and lessons learned, and recommendations on best financial practices when implementing flexible financial assistance programs.

This webinar focuses on substance use coercion as a form of abuse that impacts housing stability for domestic violence survivors. Featuring Women in Transition, the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health, and the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, this session highlighted a national survey of survivors, service provision for those experiencing domestic violence and substance use, and policy recommendations to ensure safe housing for survivors with behavioral health needs.

Based on feedback from the field, the National Sexual Assault Housing Collaborative crafted this toolkit to enhance community coordination and  improve access to housing services for survivors of sexual assault. The toolkit dives into why survivors of sexual assault have housing needs, builds knowledge around common housing concepts (emergency transfer, continuums of care), explores funding opportunities, and provides tools for advocates to hone their skills when addressing housing requests. Available in English and Spanish.

This strategy brief from Casey Family Programs highlights supportive housing, which combines affordable housing and wraparound services designated to help individuals and families work on their health, recovery, and personal growth within the platform of stable housing. As housing instability can be a contributing factor to a family's child welfare involvement, this housing intervention can help families with housing instability avoid the unnecessary and lengthy removal of children.

Victims of domestic violence experience unique challenges related to financial abuse and fraud by their intimate partners. On this webinar, presenters highlight the intersections of financial fraud, financial abuse, and intimate partner violence. They also discuss the emotional and financial impact on victims and offer tangible tools and resources to assist survivors.