Sexual Violence Content Topic Results
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October 2022
Black Women & Girls, Gender-Based Violence, and Pathways to Criminalization & Incarceration
Publisher(s): 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.
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- General Material
October 2022
National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2016/2017 Report on Intimate Partner Violence
Publisher(s): 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.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
September 2022
Leadership of Voices of Experience (LOVE) Curriculum
Publisher(s): Led and driven by currently and formerly incarcerated women, the Leadership of Voices of Experience (LOVE) Project has developed a training curriculum for victim service providers that builds providers’ capacity to support system-impacted women and gender expansive people—people who are transgender, gender nonconforming, gender queer, nonbinary.
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- General Material
June 2022
National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2016/2017 Report on Sexual Violence
Publisher(s): Sexual violence is a serious – yet preventable – public health problem. The 2016/2017 report on sexual violence includes updated data for women and men overall and by race and ethnicity and provides information on the types of perpetrators, age at first victimization, and associated health conditions among victims of sexual violence.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
February 2022
Sexual Harassment & Misconduct
Publisher(s):This document from the International Association of Chiefs of Police features a model policy designed to provide police agencies with concrete guidance and directives regarding sexual harassment and misconduct. It also includes a "Concepts & Issues Paper" designed to provide context and background information to support a Model Policy for a deeper understanding of the topic.
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- General Material
January 2022
National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey 2016/2017: Methodology Report
Publisher(s):The survey instrument administered in 2016/2017 represents a change in data collection from previous years (2010–2012 and 2015). This report describes the methodology used for the 2016/2017 data collection and the limitations of the data.
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- General Material
January 2022
The Never-Ending Maze: Continued Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA
Publisher(s): 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.
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- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
January 2022
Runaway and Homeless Youth and Relationship Violence Toolkit
Publisher(s):Family Violence Prevention and Services Program (FVPSA), National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This Toolkit organizes information, resources, tips and tools drawn from the wealth of information gathered when the two service systems were convened through local collaborative projects funded by the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
December 2021
De vuelta a lo básico: Colaborando con sobrevivientes y comunidades para promover la equidad en la salud en las intersecciones de la violencia sexual y de pareja íntima
Publisher(s):National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV), National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
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.
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- General Material
December 2021
Collective Power: A Practical Blueprint for Sexual Assault Programs to Create Community Partnerships and Collaborations
Publisher(s):This blueprint provides a nonprescriptive roadmap to how we can build collaborative relationships with community partners within and outside the anti-sexual violence movement. It identifies best practices, models, and resources for creating, encouraging, and preserving community collaborations both in conventional and innovative ways, hence strengthening the capacity of our sexual assault programs and bridging the gaps with other social service organizations and institutions.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
September 2021
How can domestic and sexual violence advocates center health equity for Black women in our work?
Publisher(s): Health is a basic human right and need. The September 2021 Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) shares select highlights from a newly released paper on health equity co-authored by staff at the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
September 2021
List of Black-Led Health Equity Organizations
Publisher(s): #1Thing you can do to center health equity and racial justice in your work is to learn from, partner with, and amplify the work of these Black-led organizations. This list (organized in alphabetical order) is not exhaustive, but it is a starting point.