Policy & Systems Advocacy Content Topic Results

This targeted recommendation outlines the rationale for why domestic violence agencies should collect sexual orientation and gender identity data on the survivors they serve. It outlines recommendations for doing so accurately and responsively for DV agencies, providers, and researchers.

This report provides information on the experiences of LGBT students of color in school in the United States. The authors provide information on these experiences with the intention of ensuring that schools provide safe learning environments.

This webpage provides an overview of the Federal Adoption Tax Credit, and provides brief descriptions of qualifying adoption expenses, state adoption tax credits, adoption disruption, dependency tax exemption, and adoption tax credit before finalization.

“Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world.” 

This guide, issued/updated annually, is an extremely practical and useful document for its breadth of review of federal housing-related programs such as CDBG, Fair Housing, HOPE VI, Housing Choice Vouchers, McKinney-Vento, and Public Housing.

This webpage provides brief descriptions of some of the most common predatory mortgage lending abusive practices.

This page outlines the problems that black trans, queer, and gender nonconforming people face with institutions such as police and prisons, employment, healthcare, housing. It also offers action steps for the federal, state, and local levels.

This documentary highlights the experiences of Native LGBTQ/Two-Spirit individuals and communities, examining the modern-day and historical factors that contribute to these communities' current experiences of discrimination and oppression.

NNEDV and Facebook developed these two guides, "A Guide to Staying Safe on Facebook" and "Safety & Privacy on Facebook: A Guide for Survivors of Abuse," as resources to help Facebook users understand and navigate the various settings and features available to increase privacy and security.

Address Confidentiality Programs (ACPs) are programs administered by individual states enabling victims of domestic violence, and sometimes victims of sexual assault and/or stalking) to keep their current address hidden and use an alternate mailing address for a variety of public and official processes. The specific procedures and qualifications vary by state. The document below outlines the protections of various states' ACPs, the legislation that created or supports these ACPs and other relevant program information.

This guide identify legal remedies available to survivors and family members in cases of abusive international marriages.

This toolbox provides resources and information to providers to help children and families cope with illness and injury. It provides the basics of trauma informed care.