Engagement & Collaboration Content Topic Results

These one-page handouts provide concise, practical guidance on common brain-based responses to sexual assault, including reflexive survival behaviors, habit behaviors, and dissociation. They are designed to help investigators, attorneys, judges, advocates, and other professionals quickly apply trauma-informed knowledge in their work with survivors.

Holding a Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) event is a strong show of support for the trans and genderqueer communities. If you are thinking about organizing one in your area, there are a number of important considerations before finalizing your plans. In NRCDV's November 2019 TA Question of the Month, guest author Miller Hoffman offers key considerations for allies.

In 2014, the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence began to lay a foundation for movement building. In NRCDV's October 2019 TA Question of the Month, writers from the Idaho Coalition discuss their efforts to end patriarchy, sexism, racism, nationalism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, able-ism, audism, anti-semitism, religious discrimination, and xenophobia/anti-immigrant sentiment through movement building.

This training focuses on the unique experiences of male sexual assault survivors, particularly the barriers created by the invisibility of male survivors, masculinity stereotypes, and anti-gay prejudice. It emphasizes the importance of inclusive, trauma-informed services that recognize and address these barriers.

On this 90-minute webinar, preventionists and change-makers in Alaska, Rhode Island, and North Carolina share their successes, surprises, pivots, and points of learning along their journeys, offering strategies and tools for those who wish to engage in this work or adapt similar projects for their own communities.

The webinar presents findings from the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study, examining factors that contribute to teen dating violence and the circumstances that may help young people stop these harmful patterns.

This webinar explores how the neurobiology of trauma affects sexual assault survivors and explains how this knowledge can help improve responses from law enforcement officers, prosecutors, nurses, and victim advocates.

Getting ready for Domestic Violence Awareness Month can be overwhelming. The Domestic Violence Awareness Project’s DVAM Readiness Checklist will ensure you stay organized, focused and on task by reminding you to take care of those tasks that have priority and providing you with ideas and resources that will ensure that your event is a success.

The National Indigenous Women's Resource Center's Native Youth Handbook, produced in partnership with the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, contains definitions on domestic violence, examples of controlling violence, what to do if you are experiencing domestic violence in any form, for family and friends of people experiencing domestic violence and how Native youth can lead the change to breaking the silence around domestic violence in their communities.

This handbook from the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, produced in partnership with the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, contains definitions on domestic violence and sexual assault, examples of sexual assault, myths and truths about sexual assault, what to do if you have been sexually assaulted, what to do if you know or think a friend or family member has experienced sexual assault, our power as life-givers and cool apps that can help prevent violence.

Continuing the Dialogue serves as a follow-up piece to the CDC's landmark Beginning the Dialogue publication, exploring lessons learned over the past 15 years and highlighting paths forward for the prevention field.

This Technical Assistance (TA) Bundle includes TA Questions (TAQs) featuring creative programming ideas that advocates can adapt or replicate in their agencies to support survivor empowerment and healing. These TAQS are intended to inspire advocates to think outside the box and to build bridges and forge new alliances with non-traditional partners.