Policy & Systems Advocacy Content Topic Results

This webinar presents information about body-worn camera program development and considerations when responding to immigrants, individuals who identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community, minors, and other specific populations.

This webinar from IACP presents information about the creation or update of body-worn camera policies and programs highlighting the considerations specific to intimate partner violence including domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

This page provides information about U visa, including what this visa is, who can be its principal applicants, grounds for inadmissibility, and costs for its application.

For domestic violence and sexual assault victims, the public benefits programs that support basic economic security are of critical importance. This report discusses the findings from a 2017 survey of over 1,100 service providers. It details barriers survivors encounter when trying to access public benefits programs, cross-sector collaboration and systems-level advocacy, and possible legislative changes to these critical programs.

In NRCDV's January 2018 TA Question of the month, guest writer Chad Sniffen offers practical tips to help survivors stay safe online.

From a national stakeholders gathering of state and local leaders, federal partners, philanthropy, and others, this guide was developed to address how health, education, child welfare, justice, and child development organizations can further the prevention and healing of childhood trauma at the state level.

The most recent NCAVP annual report details incidences of hate violence and intimate partner violence within and against the LGBTQ community for 2017.

This resource examines the issue of violence against women in the Americas through the lens of a landmark legal case, Jessica Gonzales v. the United States, which was heard in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and has had reverberations in legal jurisdictions across the globe.

For Asian, Black, Latinx, and multiracial employees, decades of research tells us that exclusion, discrimination, and bias can be daily experiences. This report examines the Emotional Tax levied on employees of color and actions that organizations can take to address and reduce the consequences and ensure that employees of color can thrive, advance, and contribute their best talents.

This planning guide is intended to assist courts to better meet the needs of self-represented litigants in domestic violence cases.

This style guide, developed by the National Center on Disability and Journalism at Arizona State University, is intended to help journalists and other communicators to report on issues affecting people with disabilities. It covers almost 200 words and terms commonly used when referring to disability, most of which are not covered in the Associated Press style guide.

An extensive survey conducted by the National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project (NIWAP) in partnership with the ACLU shows that the fear of deportation — magnified by immigration arrests in courthouses — is stopping immigrants from reporting crimes and participating in court proceedings. This report outlines findings from the survey.