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Gender-based violence—including domestic violence—impacts an astonishing number of Black women and girls. And when Black women and girls experience gender-based violence, the strategies they take to survive are often criminalized. Ending the systemic punishment and incarceration of Black women and girls requires that we decriminalize survival. This factsheet spotlights the impact of gender-based violence on Black women and girls and the ensuing criminalization that occurs.

The 2016/2017 report shows that intimate partner violence continues to be common, starts early, and disproportionately burdens historically marginalized individuals and communities. Overall, findings in the report underscore the need to prevent and address IPV against racial and ethnically marginalized communities. 

Doulas provide invaluable support to pregnant and birthing people - but doula support is available across a wide variety of experiences, including abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth. The people who provide this essential care are commonly called full-spectrum doulas.

In the summer of 2021, South Asian SOAR (SOAR), convened listening sessions with its network of 30+ frontline organizations across 13 states. These conversations elucidated the complex, nuanced, and often overlooked, challenges and needs of South Asian survivors and communities in the US. This report shares the key findings from those listening sessions, and through it, South Asian SOAR strives to ultimately generate increased funding, improve research & data collection, and drive policy changes that accurately meet South Asian survivors’ needs.

This webinar marks the “official” launch of the Transforming the Gender-Based Violence Movement: Increasing BIPOC Representation and Actualizing Accountability Project (formerly named the Women of Color Coalition Leadership Project), led by Arlene Vassell, NRCDV’s Vice President of Programs, Prevention and Social Change and Dr. Nkiru Nnawulezi, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

This free 3-part webinar series will feature tools and strategies for supporting advocates’ health and wellness, including ways to prioritize self-care and avoid burnout. Presenters explore how creating the conditions where advocates, especially those most marginalized, can thrive aligns with our commitment to No Survivor Justice Without Racial Justice.

This webinar featured a panel of experts who explored the unique barriers that people with disabilities have to navigate when seeking healing and the strategies that advocates employ to proactively remove those barriers. Specifically, they explored the civil-legal needs of survivors with disabilities, the needs of survivors who acquire a disability through domestic violence, and the unique needs of Deaf survivors.

For people currently experiencing intimate partner violence, journaling about events at home can help create a record of what has been happening which can later be used to help support claims of abuse. The October 2022 Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) outlines some of the needs identified in the workgroup.

The 2022 National Call for Unity centers on the theme for DVAM, No Survivor Justice Without Racial Justice: Cultivating Joy Towards Liberation.

In observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2022, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, guided by the leadership of the Domestic Violence Awareness Project Advisory Group, is offering a variety of opportunities for engagement this October and beyond.

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

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with partners from across the Pacific Coast region of the United States, held our third virtual Prevention Town Hall on September 14 and 15, 2022. This event was an opportunity to dig deeply into the theme “Prevention is Radical” across 2 days.