Policy & Systems Advocacy Content Topic Results

In this lecture, Alegria describes the issues immigrants and refugees face as they arrive in the U.S. and seek to integrate into a new country. Recent immigrants, she says, confront structural barriers to integration. They also must deal with a series of linguistic, cultural, and psychological obstacles that may negatively impact their behavioral health.

For families experiencing domestic violence, home visitors can play a key role in screening for abuse, assisting with safety planning and providing referrals to advocacy services. NRCDV's May 2019 TA Question of the Month highlights the experiences of a collaborative initiative implemented in the state of Florida to better equip home visitors to offer support to families experiencing or at-risk for intimate partner violence.

By focusing on staff and mentor training, skill-building, and expanding social networks, mentoring programs can have a profound impact on the lives of youth who have experienced the foster care system. This toolkit is designed to help staff from mentoring programs that serve youth in foster care mitigate some of the challenges they face.

This report is for advocates in and outside of law enforcement who are dedicated to improving the treatment and safety of transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming individuals by updating police department policies. The model policies are meant as a starting point to improve trust and police-community relations.

This webinar provides insight into the surprising similarities of victims and police officers that will help connect the complex thought patterns of a victim in trying to survive the moment and in the long term.

NRCDV Radio's new podcast show, Policy & Advocacy in Action, brings stories of real advocacy and the impact it has on individuals, communities, and the policy arena. In the first episode, disability rights activist Renee Lopez speaks about the importance of centering the voices of people of color with disabilities in the work for social justice and collective liberation.

"The webinar will look at strategies for helping one of the most vulnerable groups in detention: people who identify as LGBTI. Featuring an LGBTI survivor of sexual abuse in detention, the webinar will cover high incidence of prior trauma among LGBTI prisoners and barriers they face in accessing LGBTI-sensitive support services. The presenters will highlight the ways that advocates can use the Prison Rape Elimination Act standards as a tool to ensure the safety and dignity of LGBTI prisoners."

Explores how race, incarceration, and stigma intersect to shape the experiences and needs of male survivors of color

This model policy provides guidance regarding the establishment of priorities, guidelines, and procedures for law enforcement officers in response to domestic violence calls.

This webinar addresses the impact adultification has on children who experience trauma with an emphasis on black girls. Through storytelling, participants will learn about from presenter Jacqueline Miller’s story as it unfolds in three dimensions, revealing how to develop a framework for building resilience with youth and communities of color.

This article gives an overview of the trauma-informed care course created by the Wisconsin Afterschool Network and how it is used in afterschool settings.

In this NRCDV Radio podcast, Cody Hammer, a member of the Cherokee Nation, descendant of the Muskogee Creek Nation, and a photo artist discusses activism, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), and raising strong young women.