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This information packet contains nearly a dozen resources focused on serving, engaging, and collaborating with individuals and communities who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning (LGBTQ). The packet contains resources to support counselors, advocates, preventionists, technical assistance providers, and allied professionals committed to affirming all individuals and communities.

In this webinar, presenter Chai Jindasurat explains the nuances of intervening with survivors/victims and perpetrators of LGBTQ domestic violence, including how oppression and discrimination create barriers to accessing system-based responses for LGBTQ survivors and strategies to meet the specific needs of LGBTQ survivors in your local community.

This Applied Research Paper outlines the importance and value of engaging in sexual violence prevention work with youth. The paper discusses prevalence of sexual violence among youth populations, recent trends in prevention activities for youth, and a review of common strategies and challenges for engaging in this work. Feedback on the effectiveness and current evaluation efforts for the various approaches is offered.

This fact sheet describes the protections the FMLA affords to employees while taking FMLA leave and upon returning to work from FMLA leave.

This form offers taking points for advocates on domestic violence homicides. Recent, fully cited statistics are provided to assist advocates in engaging the media and raising awareness of this important issue.

The American legal system is not universally or equitably accessible to many people. NRCDV's September 2012 TA Question of the Month offers strategies for legal advocacy for survivors who are nonverbal.

This fact sheet provides information on human trafficking of children in the United States, what human trafficking is, reporting human trafficking, the responsibilities of government officials, assistance for child victims, how to obtain assistance for foreign child victims and the care for unaccompanied or separated child victims.

This fact sheet defines sex trafficking, and describes the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, various harm faced by victims of sex trafficking, types of sex trafficking, and information on assisting victims.

The article reports, Sexism, racism, homophobia and general name-calling are longstanding facts of life in certain corners of online video games. But the Cross Assault episode was the first of a series this year that have exposed the severity of the harassment that many women experience in virtual gaming communities.

This fact sheet explains the importance of service providers knowing why they are required to ask specific questions, and explaining to survivors what information the agency is trying to find out with the questions. This is particularly important when working with trans individuals.

This brief document offers guidance from the NRCDV Technical Assistance Team on considerations for domestic violence survivors when registering to vote.

This fact sheet explores the problem of intimate partner violence (IPV), illustrates the magnitude of the problem, presents the reproductive health effects associated with it, and describes what can be done to prevent IPV.