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In 1997, the Urban Institute created a one-stop resource for comparing TANF programs across states, and understanding changes in state specific TANF rules such eligibility requirements, benefit standards, earned income disregards, etcetera. The Welfare Rules Database is a comprehensive site that includes TANF rules for all 50 dates and the District of Columbia.

This brief article describes what the term "invisible disability" means and why it is important to understand invisible disabilities.

This report offers a comprehensive examination of the “sexual abuse to maternal mortality pipeline” and its markers. Authors offer extensive recommendations for effecting change at the policy, medical, and cultural levels.

This online program helps to build skills and offers tools to any individual that wishes to help children experiencing domestic violence on their path to healing and thriving.

This page provides information to help consumers find out if their estimated income level qualifies for savings.

This brief provides general information about the process of applying for U visa.

This paper provides information and strategies for applying for U visa application waivers.

This report explores the sexual abuse to prison pipeline in which girls are arrested and incarcerated after they are sexually abused by mapping out key points in the pipeline.

This guide is aimed at staff of prosecutors’ victim-witness programs or community-based advocacy programs who need to support victims when their cases have been reopened for post-conviction DNA testing or when the person originally convicted of the crime is later exonerated.

This Research to Practice Brief synthesizes scholarship and research exploring the mistreatment of African American elders in the United States.

This toolkit was written to support community-based approaches to violence intervention.

This fact sheet summarizes the layered needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and more (LGBTQ+) Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) survivors and communities in the U.S., based on the current literature available.