Housing & Homelessness Content Topic Results
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Results displayed are grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections then by individual related materials. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
Special Collection
Special Collection
May 2017
Housing and Domestic Violence
This collection offers a doorway to the resources available through Safe Housing Partnerships, a project of the federal Domestic Violence and Housing Technical Assistance Consortium. The resources and tools included here are provided to advance your work at the critical intersection of domestic violence, sexual assault, homelessness, and housing.
Special Collection
March 2016
Building Credit and Assets: Helping Survivors Recover from Economic Abuse
This special collection explores credit, asset building, and Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), their intersections, and how they can be leveraged to better support economic justice for survivors of domestic violence.
Special Collection
March 2014
Open Doors: Domestic Violence Shelter Development
The NRCDV receives a large number of technical assistance requests related to domestic violence program development. Part 1 provides resources for building, sustaining and enhancing shelter programs to meet the diverse needs of domestic violence survivors.
Special Collection
July 2010
Housing and Sexual Violence
This collection includes resources to assist communities in developing more effective strategies to address the multi-layered and complex relationship between sexual violence and housing.
Materials
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
September 2023
National Prevention Town Hall 2023 – Session 4 | Congreso Nacional de Prevención – Sesión 4
Publisher(s): The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with partners from across the Northeast region of the United States, held our fourth virtual Prevention Town Hall on September 13 and 14, 2023.
Materials
- General Material
May 2023
National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence: Strategies for Action
Publisher(s): In this first-ever U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, the Federal Government advances an unprecedented and comprehensive approach to preventing and addressing sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and other forms of gender-based violence.
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
May 2023
Learning from Lived Experiences: Policy Solutions from Culturally Specific Communities to Increase Survivor Access to and Retention of Safe Housing
Publisher(s): For over 50 years, survivors’ voices and realities have shaped responses to domestic and sexual violence. From emergency shelter to sheltering solutions beyond imminent threats of harm, housing has always been a critical part of conversations connected to survivor safety and well-being.
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
March 2023
Process Evaluation of a Flexible Funding Pilot Program to Prevent Homelessness among BIPOC and LGBTQ+ Survivors
Publisher(s): This report summarizes the findings from an evaluation of the LGBT Center of Central Pennsylvania's pilot flexible financial assistance model. This includes the challenges encountered and lessons learned in the implementation process along with preliminary evidence of the success of the flexible financial assistance model.
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
February 2023
WEBINAR: The Lifespan Lens: Youth-Centered Approaches to Building Economic Security and Safety in Housing Programs
Publisher(s): In this webinar, NRCDV’s Safe Housing Capacity Building Center presents a panel discussion focused on ways to engage youth in program design. Recognizing that young people are the experts of their own lives, staff from Point Source and a member of their Youth Action Council highlight their youth engagement model.
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
August 2022
Needs Assessment Report: Promising Practices and Interventions to Address the Housing Needs of Domestic Violence Survivors
Publisher(s):The intersection between domestic violence, housing instability, and homelessness continues to be a pressing issue for the field. To this end, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence conducted a two-part needs assessment project to assess survivors' current and emerging housing needs, particularly in Black and Brown communities, and to document innovative community-based solutions.
Materials
- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
January 2022
Runaway and Homeless Youth and Relationship Violence Toolkit
Publisher(s):Family Violence Prevention and Services Program (FVPSA), National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This Toolkit organizes information, resources, tips and tools drawn from the wealth of information gathered when the two service systems were convened through local collaborative projects funded by the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
October 2021
What are the advocacy needs of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Survivors of Gender-Based Violence?
Publisher(s): The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV), National AI/AN Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) and the Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center (AKNWRC) convened a workgroup of gender-based violence and housing advocates from Indian country to reflect on the needs of AI/AN survivors. The October 2021 Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) outlines some of the needs identified in the workgroup.