Engagement & Collaboration Content Topic Results

Survivors face numerous barriers to keeping or trying to access safe housing. In NRCDV's August 2018 TA Question of the Month, Kris Billhardt of the National Alliance for Safe Housing explores ways that advocates and housing providers can collaborate to meet survivors' housing needs.

Included in the guide are the basics of messaging strategies, the components of an effective message, "rules of the road" for sexual violence prevention messaging, and lots of sample messages to get you started.

Why #1Thing? The Domestic Violence Awareness Project Advisory Group came together to develop a unified message for inspiring action. NRCDV's DVAM 2018 countdown webinar explores how our collective One Things can lead to the social transformation we all desire to see in our communities and the world. 

This report discusses the findings from an evaluation of a domestic violence investigations training for law enforcement to determine if the training resulted in increased participant confidence in working domestic violence and abuse cases and knowledge of evidence-based procedures to document and investigate these cases.

In NRCDV's March 2018 TA Question of the month, guest writer Susan Sullivan offers suggestions for getting involved with Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

The free downloadable toolkit is designed to help students organize effectively on campus to create culture of respect, equity and value for all. 

In NRCDV's February 2018 TA Question of the month, guest writer Annika Leonard explores what it means to truly bring our histories of trauma and oppression to the work.

For domestic violence and sexual assault victims, the public benefits programs that support basic economic security are of critical importance. This report discusses the findings from a 2017 survey of over 1,100 service providers. It details barriers survivors encounter when trying to access public benefits programs, cross-sector collaboration and systems-level advocacy, and possible legislative changes to these critical programs.

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach to research in which researchers and community members share power, resources, and decision-making at every level of the research process. This online toolkit is to supports emerging researchers who would like to learn more about CBPR approaches, particularly in the context of domestic violence.

This booklet is a comprehensive guide on the warning signs of unhealthy or abusive relationships, resources available to youth who are experiencing abusive or unhealthy relationships, legal recourse, and best practices for young people to heal.

In this publication, Chicago Beyond explores how researchers can work to level the playing field and reckon with unintended bias. Chicago Beyond created this guidebook to help shift the power dynamic and the way community organizations, researchers, and funders uncover knowledge together.

Building from what trafficking survivors have taught us, this webinar discusses how to identify survivors, how past experience of help-seeking can influence current attempts, and the importance of trauma-informed care at different points of contact with survivors such as raids, arrest, and at shelters.