Sexual Violence Content Topic Results

This series of information sheets provide data and resources to service providers and justice professionals who may work with older victims.

In this first-ever U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, the Federal Government advances an unprecedented and comprehensive approach to preventing and addressing sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and other forms of gender-based violence.

This presentation examines compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD), including its clinical characteristics, links to trauma, addiction, and chemsex, as well as current recommendations for psychotherapy and medication-based treatment.

Hosted by DomesticShelters.org, this webinar features licensed professional counselor Sybil Cummin detailing how abusive partners continue to exert power and control after a relationship ends through financial sabotage, legal systems, and domestic violence by proxy using children. She provides advocates and mental health professionals with actionable strategies to educate survivors, document covert abuse tactics, and restore survivor autonomy during high-risk post-separation periods.

This official training module, presented by New York State Department of Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon, details the legal definitions, regulatory standards, and reporting mechanisms for workplace sexual harassment and discrimination under New York State law. Watch it to explore how the framework evaluates gender diversity, intersectionality, the hostile work environment standard in physical and remote settings, and quid pro quo harassment.

This report explores how consent and boundaries are understood and practiced in AANHPI contexts, highlights how gender expectations and the need to respect certain individuals make it hard to establish boundaries, and presents recommendations for advocates and educators.

This self-assessment tool serves as a way for domestic violence service providers to evaluate their organizational capacity, policies, and practices to identify areas to improve access to LGBTQ survivors.

Black deaf survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence often have to navigate a web of barriers to accessing healing services. This webinar features speakers from DAWN, a Deaf community-based organization, on their unique approach to meeting the needs of Black deaf survivors.

January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, a presidentially designated observance designed to educate the public about human trafficking and the role they can play in preventing and responding to human trafficking. This toolkit breaks the month down into focus weeks to ensure clear messaging and resource sharing around the theme "Partner to Prevent."

This paper discusses the importance of prioritizing women’s and girl’s empowerment when addressing protection risks, including gender-based violence, in the context of displacement and climate change. "Adopting a gender lens helps to identify and respond to specific risks and needs, and it highlights the essential roles women can take on in leading sustainable transformations.”

Jamie Thurber and Walter Scalupo share their experiences of childhood sexual abuse by family members, describing how they only recognized or recovered memories of the abuse later in life and how processing the trauma helped them move from shame, confusion, and self-blame toward healing and understanding that the abuse was not their fault.

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.