Policy & Systems Advocacy Content Topic Results

This fact sheet provides a concise overview of secondary traumatic stress and its potential impact on child-serving professionals. It also outlines options for assessment, prevention, and interventions relevant to secondary stress, and describes the elements necessary for transforming child-serving organizations and agencies into systems that also support worker resiliency.

This article provides information about domestic violence in LGBTQ communities as well as information on available research and resources.

This information sheet examines the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy, its prevalence globally, its health consequences, whether pregnancy is a trigger for IPV, interventions, and policy and research implications.

This report provides findings from a survey of IDA programs across the country. The results include key aspects of the IDA field including information on accountholders, common asset purchases, and funding sources, as well as resource gaps of the field.

In recognition of the increasing role that social media plays in the lives of survivors as well as programs and staff, this tool addresses the benefits and risks of social media use within anti-violence programs.

This paper reviews the relationship between assets and children's long-term educational attainment, and highlights Child Development Accounts (CDAs) as an important asset in this equation.

An overview of essential vocabulary for allies wishing to talk about LGBT people and equality, providing explanations about certain terms that have historically been used against gay and transgender people and showing how allies can use respectful language in different contexts.

This publication is designed to facilitate the efforts of states, tribes, and territories to implement the Full Faith & Credit Provisions of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which require that a protection order obtained in one state be enforced in another state.

This article reviews risk factors for HIV infection in women, barriers to engagement in care, and strategies to improve linkage to HIV-related medical and social care. It focuses specifically on the disproportionate impact of HIV on women of color, and strategies to increase engagement in care.

This web resource provides teaching and learning modules the promote positive body image and the impact of the media on beauty and gender stereotypes.

This document presents a project report and recommendations from the Florida’s statewide fatality review team.

This document provides an overview of labor trafficking for the purpose of domestic work which is prevalent in the United States and internationally.