Policy & Systems Advocacy Content Topic Results

This fact sheet provides information related to safety planning with transgender and gender non-conforming individuals who are experiencing intimate partner violence. The fact sheet includes components of safety planning as well as information on ways safety planning with transgender and gender non-conforming individuals differ from safety planning with non-transgender clients.

This Applied Research paper reviews available evidence on the effectiveness of gender violence prevention programs on college campuses, explores various models of campus-based prevention programming, and discusses the implications of emerging themes from the literature for practice.

This fact sheet defines human trafficking and addresses issues such as the extent of human trafficking in the United States, the ways in which trafficking affects schools, how to identify a victim of human trafficking, and how to report suspected human trafficking.

This study provides empirical data on cases of officer-involved domestic violence (OIDV). It identifies and describes cases in which police were arrested for criminal offenses associated with an incident of family and/or domestic violence through a content analysis of published newspaper articles. The study includes a discussion regarding OIDV police crime and policy implications.

This issue of Synergy is dedicated to immigration and child protection and custody issues in the context of domestic violence. This article describes the obstacles that victims with limited English proficiency face in our judicial system and how to improve the situation for them and their families.

This document focuses on the critical role of the adolescent health care provider in preventing, identifying and addressing adolescent relationship abuse. These guidelines are applicable to providers working in a wide range of settings serving adolescents.

The goal of this toolkit is to present an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to service delivery in order to meet the needs of pregnant and parenting survivors of intimate partner violence and reproductive coercion.

The goal of this report is to highlight the concerns of transgender immigrants as an especially vulnerable group within the immigration system and to aid advocacy organizations and policy makers alike to include a consideration of trans immigrants’ rights in their work toward Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

By laying the groundwork to understand the intersection between domestic violence and homelessness, this toolkit offers practical strategies that providers can follow to improve service integration.

This report discusses the purpose of the statewide Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team (DVFRT) and identifies key findings and recommendations for decreasing domestic violence-related homicides.

Labor and Civil Rights Leader Dolores Huerta talks about the importance of family. She says that Latino families are stronger when they are together and the importance of talking about gay & lesbian family members. This short video can be used as a training tool to raise awareness about the importance of honoring equality when working with Latino communities.

Do you fear that you may be abused by your husband, boyfriend, or partner if you return to your country of origin? If so, you may have a claim for protection from the U.S. government. This manual is for survivors of domestic violence seeking asylum in the United States.