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This Report features the story of Trisha, a young woman who lost her mother to domestic violence homicide at the tender age of 14.

This issue brief provides a broad overview of the crossover between the child welfare field and the work currently being done to prevent and respond to the trafficking of children and youth in the United States.

This brochure provides information on the options and help available for immigrant and refugee women who experience domestic violence.

This directory links to the contact information of many state and local bar associations. A bar association is a professional organization of attorneys who practice law in the same county, city, or state, or who practice law in a particular topic area (for example: family law). Some bar associations are voluntary, while others require that all attorneys practicing in that location or practicing that area of law are members.

This article addresses the ways in which some acts of violence against women are often characterized as "honor killings," and asserts that this a form of labeling other "Others" as being backward and inherently more violent than western cultures. The author stresses the importance of rejecting this narrative.

This study analyzes the findings of the 2008 National Transgender Discrimination Survey to examine whether certain sociodemographic factors and psychosocial risks, such racial identity, income, immigration status, or disability, are significant predictors of unequal treatment of transgender people in domestic violence programs and rape crisis centers.

The United States Census Bureau reports that approximately 56.7 million Americans have a disability. This booklet is for anyone—with or without a disability—who wants to interact more effectively with people with disabilities.

This webinar provides a detailed description of engaging in a best practice assessment of the civil protection order system. Considerations for jurisdictions interested in conducting assessments, as well as the technical assistance provided by the National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit (NCPOFFC) are discussed.

This tool, available on the “Workplaces Respond” website, will help employers create a workplace policy by guiding employers through a series of questions, offering a choice of model language based on a promising practice (which has the most protective language for employees) or, if applicable, language based on the law in the specific state or locality.

This document offers a framework for understanding and addressing the unmet needs of Deaf survivors that is rooted in a cultural and linguistic perspective.

This fact sheet provides legal information to immigrants who identify as LGBT and immigrants who are HIV-positive.

This 2015 study on elder financial abuse examines the scope and impacts of elder financial abuse, as well as identifying sources of vulnerability and exposure.