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The primary purposes of this community organizing toolkit are to help support member programs and their community partners in creating a community-wide response to the issues of sexual and domestic violence; change community norms that support violence against women; and mobilize local communities for social change.

This one-pager provides tips for women on how to protect themselves and their children as well as on how to support each other and bring forward women's concerns and needs following a natural disaster. Information also available in Spanish.

On April 12, 1999, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final set of regulations to provide federal, state and tribal governments with direction in the administration of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Before issuing the Final Rule, HHS published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that included key provisions of TANF. The notice provided the public with an opportunity to submit comments regarding the proposed regulations.

This handout offers information and tips for youth experiencing digital dating abuse. 

This essay reviews the activism of African-American women in the abortion rights movement, highlighting the past fifty years.

This toolkit is a critical how-to guide for communities assessing their institutional responses to violence against women.

This manual includes useful start-up tools such as a sample agenda, sample skits, a Power & Control Wheel, and a sample budget.

This is a safer sex guide for trans and gender expansive people and their partners that seeks to address the need for relatable and respectful resources on safer sex. It explores terms, boundaries/consent, safer sex tools, and sexuality during and after transitioning.

This resource provides an overview of the most common feelings of grief and offers tips for coping with the reactions of others, coping with holidays, and coping with the criminal justice system.

This study assesses animal maltreatment in samples of women seeking safety at shelters and community samples of women. Women in shelter were much more likely (54%) to report partners' hurting or killing of their pets than women not in shelter (3.5%).

This report examines the fatalities that occurred in Arizona from January 1 – December 31, 2012, including intimate partner homicides, homicides perpetrated by family members, suicides related to incidents of domestic violence, and perpetrators killed by law enforcement when they respond to a domestic violence call.

This webpage lists questions and answers regarding the misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, including the definition, application of the law to specific individuals and within specified time frames, hypothetical scenarios in which the law is applied, and differentiation between federal and state law.