Intervention & Prevention Content Topic Results

Jamie Thurber and Walter Scalupo share their experiences of childhood sexual abuse by family members, describing how they only recognized or recovered memories of the abuse later in life and how processing the trauma helped them move from shame, confusion, and self-blame toward healing and understanding that the abuse was not their fault.

In the summer of 2021, South Asian SOAR (SOAR), convened listening sessions with its network of 30+ frontline organizations across 13 states. These conversations elucidated the complex, nuanced, and often overlooked, challenges and needs of South Asian survivors and communities in the US. This report shares the key findings from those listening sessions, and through it, South Asian SOAR strives to ultimately generate increased funding, improve research & data collection, and drive policy changes that accurately meet South Asian survivors’ needs.

The 2016/2017 report shows that intimate partner violence continues to be common, starts early, and disproportionately burdens historically marginalized individuals and communities. Overall, findings in the report underscore the need to prevent and address IPV against racial and ethnically marginalized communities. 

This webinar featured a panel of experts who explored the unique barriers that people with disabilities have to navigate when seeking healing and the strategies that advocates employ to proactively remove those barriers. Specifically, they explored the civil-legal needs of survivors with disabilities, the needs of survivors who acquire a disability through domestic violence, and the unique needs of Deaf survivors.

Doulas provide invaluable support to pregnant and birthing people - but doula support is available across a wide variety of experiences, including abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth. The people who provide this essential care are commonly called full-spectrum doulas.

This free 3-part webinar series will feature tools and strategies for supporting advocates’ health and wellness, including ways to prioritize self-care and avoid burnout. Presenters explore how creating the conditions where advocates can thrive aligns with our values.

For people currently experiencing intimate partner violence, journaling about events at home can help create a record of what has been happening which can later be used to help support claims of abuse. The October 2022 Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) outlines some of the needs identified in the workgroup.

The resource examines the global prevalence of modern slavery, highlighting the significant increase in forced labor and forced marriage worldwide.

Session 4: Is Our Movement Ready to End AntiBlackness? Despite Everything, the Overrepresentation of White Women & Underrepresentation of Black Leaders in Prevention Continues | Sesión 4: ¿Nuestro movimiento está listo para acabar con la anti-negritud? A pesar de todo, continúa la representación excesiva de mujeres blancas y la representación insuficiente de líderes negros en la prevención

Session 1: Understanding and Interrupting Anti-Blackness and White Supremacy in our Movement | Sesión 1: Entendiendo e Interrumpiendo la Anti-Negritud y la Supremacía Blanca en nuestro Movimiento

From spiritual abuse to being a key tenant of survivors’ healing journey, faith plays a critical role in many survivors’ experiences with violence. This webinar gathered four of API-GBV’s partners from a multi-year faith-based advocacy project that reached several Chinese/Taiwanese Christian churches and seminaries, Sikh gurdwaras, and Korean Christian congregations in California.

This guide offers information and tips to disaster responders and first responders to help them manage stress during crisis response. It describes how stress affects the body and suggests ways for individuals and organizations to promote and engage in stress management.