Policy & Systems Advocacy Content Topic Results

This toolkit outlines how to strengthen partnerships between the community and law enforcement, further the community's role as a partner in crime reduction efforts, identify and address social issues that diminish the quality of life and threaten public safety in communities, and link those in need to services and resources that currently exist in the community.

This resource addresses some of the root causes of HIV disparity in the Latino community, and some of the interventions Ryan White programs are using to close the gap.

The most common form of human trafficking is sexual exploitation (79% of human trafficking cases). The victims of sexual exploitation are predominantly women and girls.

This partnership and collaboration template allows multiple agencies to draw on their strengths to support ending violence and HIV in their communities.

The objective of this paper is to provide a clear overview of the existing evidence on the effectiveness of interventions for intimate partner violence for women (and their partners/children if the intervention involves them) during the perinatal period.

The type of technology that victim service programs use and how it’s implemented can have a profound impact on the safety and privacy of both survivors and agencies. This article from TechSafety.org lists a few things for agencies to consider when using particular technologies.

This document reviews how immigrants are included in health care reform per provisions in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). Spanish version available.

Reproductive Health and Intimate Partner Violence Wheel provides definitions and examples of reproductive coercion and intimate partner violence. The wheel can be used as a training tool for advocates and service providers, as well as a supportive and enlightening resource for survivors.

The Link between violence to people and violence to animals is well documented by research, both nationallyand internationally. In its simplest form: violence to animals is a predictor that the abuser may becomeviolent to people, and vice versa. Abuse is abuse no matter what the form or whom the victim. Crimes against people are tied to a myriad of crimes against animals and threespecific types of animal abuse that are linked to crimes against people are featured in this guidebook: sexualassaults against animals (bestiality), animal hoarding, and animal fighting.

This TA brief provides considerations and recommendations for program implementation and developments within anti-violence and legal services agencies. It aims to enable LEP survivors to better navigate the significant challenges faced, strengthen advocacy, and further equal access to justice. 

Findings discuss IPV victimization, frequency, severity, patterns, need for services, and impacts to more fully convey this public health burden.

Programs are increasingly considering the use of technology to provide services to survivors. This article outlines six questions for organizations to consider when providing advocacy services via technology.