Sexual Violence Content Topic Results

This document builds upon the working group’s previously released product, The Need for Paid Safe Leave & Model Legislative Language, which provided model legislative language regarding paid safe leave. It includes recommendations for when workers can be required to provide documentation for safe leave claims, and, where required, what types of documentation options should be allowed.

This Technical Assistance Question (TAQ) explores the prevalence of gender-based violence among Native women, COVID-19's impact on the Indigenous population, and how they connect to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit movement.

On October 12-13, 2023 the Office of Family Violence Prevention Services hosted a roundtable discussion on safe housing solutions for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. This report shares key insights and recommendations that emerged from the roundtable.

This year marks the 30th anniversary since the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 1994. VAWA is a landmark piece of legislation designed to address domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and other forms of gender-based violence.

The Need for Paid Safe Leave & Model Legislative Language is the first product of the Safe Leave Working Group. The document is a resource for policymakers, advocates, and stakeholders that provides key context for the importance of paid safe leave, this document includes model policy language for providing paid safe leave, which can be used directly or adapted to appropriate contexts. 

This training was designed specifically for those who provide direct services to survivors of domestic and sexual violence to address questions at the intersection of self-managed abortion care and your work to support victims and survivors of gender-based violence.

Abortion is essential health care. In this Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ), Ondine Quinn, Senior Director of Programs at Provide, Inc., discusses who are the most impacted by abortion bans and restrictions and how people are being criminalized for abortions

Federal resources are critical to reducing and eliminating violence. Both the House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies (LHHS) Appropriations Subcommittee and the House Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee proposed bills that will maintain some supports for survivors, such as FVPSA programs and rental assistance programs, but also eliminate critical elements that support survivor and community safety and justice.

This report details findings from a survey conducted by the National Domestic Violence Hotline and If/When/How on the prevalence of reproductive coercion, specifically among survivors of domestic violence.

Domestic and sexual violence are critical issues facing communities affected by disasters. At the same time, disasters can also have a distinctly challenging impact on those individuals already traumatized by violence. This fact sheet outlines available data and explores how anti-violence advocates and organizations can best prepare and respond to disaster and emergency situations.

This zine from the National LGBTQ Institute on Intimate Partner Violence serves as a survivor-defined, trauma-informed, intersectional guide for the community by the community. Readers will gain an understanding of domestic violence, learn how the LGBTQ+ community is uniquely impacted, and get resources for safety plan and get support.

The purpose of this 4-part Technical Assistance Guidance (TAG) series, Serving Black Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, is to give advocates the tools and practical strategies to identify, reach, and effectively serve Black women-identified survivors of intimate partner violence. Part 3 helps advocates to address reproductive coercion, non-fatal strangulation, and domestic homicide in the lives of Black survivors.