Racial Justice Content Topic Results

Session 4: Is Our Movement Ready to End AntiBlackness? Despite Everything, the Overrepresentation of White Women & Underrepresentation of Black Leaders in Prevention Continues | Sesión 4: ¿Nuestro movimiento está listo para acabar con la anti-negritud? A pesar de todo, continúa la representación excesiva de mujeres blancas y la representación insuficiente de líderes negros en la prevención

Session 1: Understanding and Interrupting Anti-Blackness and White Supremacy in our Movement | Sesión 1: Entendiendo e Interrumpiendo la Anti-Negritud y la Supremacía Blanca en nuestro Movimiento

In November 2020, FreeFrom launched the second round of their Safety Fund and prioritized distributing grants to queer, trans, Black, Indigenous and Latinx survivors. This report details what FreeFrom learned from the process. 

The intersection between domestic violence, housing instability, and homelessness continues to be a pressing issue for the field. To this end, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence conducted a two-part needs assessment project to assess survivors' current and emerging housing needs, particularly in Black and Brown communities, and to document innovative community-based solutions.

Many domestic violence and homeless shelters are seeing rapid increases in the number of elders seeking shelter. This webinar discusses ways of responding to the needs of Indigenous elders who are experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness and what can be done.

Native women have been on the receiving end of many injustices. These injustices include homelessness and various forms of physical and sexual violence. Native women experience high rates of homelessness. The May 2022 Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) explains that advocates must understand the historical context of Native women's experiences in order to truly support them.

How do we support women and girls, and assist advocates in creating brave spaces and thriving communities while we dismantle biased systems?

Numerous studies have confirmed the impact of bias on performance assessments and career advancement for women of all races and ethnicities, and people of color. This article offers helpful strategies for disrupting bias and promoting equity in the performance review process.

The seeds for this survey were planted in the months following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Like the advocates at our member programs, ODVN wanted to better understand how survivors—women of color, specifically, along with other marginalized groups—experience law enforcement and other parts of the response system. We surveyed 505 survivors across the state to get some answers.

This fact sheet outlines why we need to shift the narratives around sex trafficking to center Black survivors.

More than half of all American Indian and Alaska Native women have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime; one in three have experienced rape. The US government continues to fail to adequately prevent and respond to such violence. This report details some of the factors that contribute the high rates of sexual violence against Indigenous women, and the barriers to justice that they continue to face.

Este recurso hace conexiones entre la equidad en la salud y nuestro trabajo para prevenir la violencia sexual y de pareja íntima. Centra las historias de los sobrevivientes en las intersecciones del racismo sistémico, la violencia y la opresión. En él se estudian formas de crear capacidad individual y a nivel organizativo para hacer frente a la desigualdad en materia de salud. Y, ofrece un llamado a la acción para aquellos quienes están dispuestos a comprometerse con la equidad de la salud en su trabajo de prevención de la violencia de género.