Policy & Systems Advocacy Content Topic Results

It will address three areas of interest: why the public's perspective is important; how leadership in different states has benefited from studies of public opinion about crime and criminal justice issues; and why it is essential that the criminal justice system view the public as a partner rather than an adversary or simply a group of consumers.

The booklet discusses CAC's model in developing a proven response to child abuse by creating a multidisciplinary team approach that coordinates the key services involved in the investigation, prosecution, and treatment&of child abuse cases. It concludes by encouraging tribal communities in the developmental stages to consider the CAC's model as an appropriate response to child abuse.

This study examines the importance of social and demographic characteristics, attitudes towards condom effectiveness against HIV, fertility intentions and power dynamics as predictors of condom use.

This curriculum is designed to enhance public policy skill and knowledge of domestic violence advocates. It provides both a theoretical approach to systemic advocacy and basic hands-on-tools to help advocates better prepare for their work with systems.

This curriculum is designed to help domestic violence programs reach out to underserved communities in order to address the issues of diversity and of the limited access to quality services for battered women from those communities.

This is Issue Brief #8 in a series based on a growing body of research that suggests that successful policies for families must take into account the needs of children when addressing the needs of parents and the needs of parents when addressing the needs of children.

This document is a resource for advocates seeking to strengthen efforts to help battered women with abused and neglected children.

This document is an overview of strategies implemented to increase economic opportunities for low-income women and families. Organizing efforts, job training and opportunity development, creating assets, and governmental responses are described.

This short paper describes three kinds of pseudo-allies to people with disabilities, providing insights into what true allyship looks like.

This manual provides legal information and steps to build prevention and response strategies to housing related hate activities.

This safety plan is designed to help adults with physical disabilities who have been or may be abused by an intimate partner, spouse, adult child, or other family member, personal assistant or caregiver.

This article describes a framework for understanding risk reduction strategies while understanding power dynamics in heterosexual relationships.