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September 2025
Building a Community Coordinated Response to the Criminalization of Survivors: A Toolkit
Publisher(s): This toolkit from the Battered Women's Justice Project provides ideas, strategies, and techniques for addressing the need and challenges related to making survivors charged with crimes visible and central in a community’s response to domestic and sexual violence, with a particular emphasis on victims of battering charged with crimes.
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September 2025
A Wildflower Path: Healing in Hard Times
Publisher(s):A trauma-informed toolkit and six-part webinar series that provide accessible mind-body-spirit practices to support healing, resilience, and well-being for survivors, advocates, and organizations. Also available in Spanish.
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August 2025
Clinical Considerations: Best Practices for Health Centers and Providers’ Response to IPV/HT
Publisher(s):This webinar explains how health centers can operationalize care for patients experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV), human trafficking, and exploitation through trauma-informed, universal education, confidentiality, supportive resources, and partnerships with community advocacy organizations.
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- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
August 2025
Storytelling Institute
Publisher(s):The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence's Storytelling Institute is a free live two-day, virtual training for individuals who seek to move their target audiences from facts and numbers to taking action, utilizing storytelling as a tool for engagement.
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- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
August 2025
What Practical Tools Do Advocates Need to Offer Effective Support to Male Survivors?
Publisher(s): Survivors are survivors. Believing this means recognizing that abuse impacts individuals no matter their background or who they are, and that all survivors deserve support and safety. This Technical Assistance Question (TAQ) offers concrete tips, guiding questions, and ideas for how to support male survivors – from before your first client reaches out to your program to debriefing with your supervisor after you close their file.
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August 2025
Facilitating Enforcement of Protection Orders Registration of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Protection Orders – Implications for Advocates
Publisher(s): This guide provides information on state and federal laws, policies, and practices for registration of a protection order in another jurisdiction.
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August 2025
Tipsheet: Working with Survivors on Probation and Parole
Publisher(s): Community-based advocates can play a critical role in helping survivors successfully complete supervision, particularly when working in partnership with a survivor’s probation or parole officer. This tipsheet highlights various practical strategies advocates can use when working with survivors on probation and parole.
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July 2025
What Turns You On: Consent
Publisher(s):This webinar is a part of the What Turn You On Series by Center For Healthy Sex, exploring the importance of consent, communication, boundaries, and self-awareness in fostering healthy, safe, and fulfilling sexual relationships.
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July 2025
Working With Survivors in Jail: A Manual for Community-Based Advocates
Publisher(s): This manual provides information and strategies to help community-based advocates provide effective and holistic support to incarcerated victims of battering.
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- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
June 2025
WEBINAR: A Shock to the System: Strategies for Victim Service Providers to Effectively Respond to Disasters
Publisher(s):This interactive webinar, featuring The Cloudburst Group, addresses disaster planning and response for organizations who serve individuals and families impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking.
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June 2025
Operational Considerations: Organizational Guidelines for Screening for IPV/HT - IPV/HT Series
Publisher(s):This session explains how community health centers can develop organizational systems for identifying and responding to intimate partner violence (IPV) and human trafficking (HT), emphasizing trauma-informed care, staff training, screening, safety, and community partnerships.
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- NRCDV Publications
June 2025
Collaboration Works to Prevent Domestic Violence: It is the journey and the destination
Publisher(s):This graphic illustration makes a case to funders and policy makers to invest in collaboration as a strategy to prevent intimate partner violence.









