Policy & Systems Advocacy Content Topic Results

This webinar addresses the unique obstacles that Latin@ LGBTQ youth face the intersections of violence, homelessness, unstable housing, and other forms of oppression.

This article examines the violence and abuse perpetrated by police against their intimate partners and asks whether criminalization can succeed as a policy when police officers are disproportionately committing intimate partner abuse.

In a yearlong investigation of sexual misconduct by U.S. law enforcement, the Associated Press uncovered about 1,000 officers who lost their badges in a six-year period for sexual assault, other sex crimes, or sexual misconduct. The AP’s findings, coupled with other research and interviews with experts, suggest that sexual misconduct is among the most prevalent type of complaint against law officers.

This webinar discusses language access requirements for courts, law enforcement, health care, and benefits providers and highlights best practices for language access advocacy for limited English proficient (LEP) survivors with these agencies.

Expert panels covered issues such as violations of women’s reproductive privacy, women's mass incarceration (and their health behind bars), access to reproductive health services, domestic violence, online sexual harassment, and the religious objections to medical services.

This report provides an overview of existing research on intimate partner violence and sexual abuse among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and makes recommendations for future research.

This article details key findings from a series published by the National Council of La Raza, entitled Profiles on Latinos and Banking. The series analyzes the data from the previously published report entitled Banking in Color: New Findings on Financial Access for Low- to Moderate-Income Communities.

This webinar highlighted promising practices for Tribal Child Support Agencies and Tribal DV programs for enhancing safe access to child support and provided a special focus on use of the new resources in Tribal settings.

This webinar explored the significance, gifts, challenges, successes and the evolution of using an intersectionality of oppressions lens as the main approach to our work.

This webinar was designed for aspiring white allies interested in deepening their understanding of the connections between racial justice work and domestic and sexual violence intervention and prevention work.

This report collects data concerning intimate partner violence (IPV) within LGBTQ and HIV-affected relationships from 16 anti-violence programs in 13 states across the country, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont.

At its 122nd Annual Conference and Exposition, the International Association of Chiefs of Police resolved that law enforcement agencies should implement comprehensive training efforts the crime of sexual assault, including its impact on victims, the recidivism of sex offenders, and the importance of DNA evidence to all types of sexual assault prosecutions.