Policy & Systems Advocacy Content Topic Results

This resource is designed to help advocates and trans survivors themselves navigate sex-segregated services. It also provides concrete advice on how service providers can think beyond sex-segregation.

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.

This resource sheet includes information on transgender-specific resources, service impacts on trans/SOFFA clients, trans/SOFFA specific power and control tactics, and a list of specific articles available on the web.

This expanded fact sheet provides an overview of child sexual abuse prevention and offers resources and answers the following questions: What is child sexual abuse? How common is child sexual abuse? Who are the victims of child sexual abuse? Who are the perpetrators? What are the warning signs that a child may be sexually abused? Risk factors for the perpetration of child sexual abuse? How can I reduce the risk of children being abused?

This protocol from the Sexual Assault Interagency Council provides direction for professionals, counselors, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and other individuals in Denver who interact with victims of sexual assault, and a framework for the evaluation of their efforts.

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 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.

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.

The Act was passed and signed into law in December 2010. It extends Bush-era tax cuts, unemployment insurance, and specific provisions under ARRA including key tax credit programs for families.

In November 2010, Congress extended the TANF program through FY 2011, as part of the Claims Resolution Act (H.R. 4783). This fact sheet summarizes these legislative actions.

This recorded webinar describes how legal services lawyers and social workers work together in elder abuse cases.