Survivors in Contact Content Topic Results
The results displayed below have been grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections - containing our most highly valued resources - then by individual related materials. Refine your search by category, types, author and/or publisher using the options provided. Sort by date published, date added, or alphabetically. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
Results displayed are grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections then by individual related materials. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
Special Collection
Special Collection
August 2018
Building Comprehensive Solutions to Domestic Violence
Supporting critical thinking, learning, and victim-defined advocacy.
Materials
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
August 2026
Press Release: A Survivor’s Actions Do Not Disprove Abuse: NRCDV Responds to Rep. Max Miller’s Remarks
Publisher(s): The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) is deeply concerned by Rep. Max Miller’s public remarks suggesting that his former wife’s offer to cook dinner after an alleged assault calls her allegations into question.
Materials
- General Material
January 2024
Stalking Survivors Speak: What Survivors Want You to Know to Enhance Your Response to Stalking
Publisher(s):This webinar features survivors of stalking who share their experiences to raise awareness about the profound emotional, physical, and financial impacts of stalking and the importance of improving responses from communities and the criminal justice system.
Materials
- General Material
May 2022
Ask an Expert: Male Victims and Human Trafficking
Publisher(s):A panel discussion that explores the unique experiences of male survivors of human trafficking and strategies for providing inclusive, survivor-centered services.
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
December 2020
WEBINAR: Reducing Violent Behavior
Publisher(s): Survivors in contact with a partner or parent who is abusive cannot rely on leaving a relationship or physical separation to end the violence, abuse, or control. For them to be safer, the violent behavior must be reduced, and they’ll need options to meet basic need and be well. This webinar features Jacquelyn Boggess, Lisa Nitsch, Juan Carlos Areán, and Jill Davies in an important conversation about supporting behavior change, safety planning, and our advocacy.
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
October 2019
Victim-Defined Advocacy Beyond Leaving: Safer through Strategies to Reduce Violent Behavior
Publisher(s): This paper explores strategies to reduce violent behavior, both physical violence and all other forms of abuse, using a victim-defined approach. It recognizes that reducing violence is central to our mission, difficult, and long been a part of our advocacy to make victims safer.
Materials
- General Material
September 2015
Accounting for Risk and Danger Practice Checklists: Coordinating Risk Assessment in Domestic Violence Cases
Publisher(s):These checklists are intended to help jurisdictions ensure that their criminal justice responses identify and address potential risks to victims, based on sound research on risk factors associated with IPV.
Materials
November 2013
Research, Reports and Studies Compilation
Publisher(s):This document compiles notable research, reports and studies addressing: the prevalence of domestic and sexual violence and stalking; the costs and economic impact of these forms of violence; the workplace impact of these forms of violence; perpetrators’ impact on the workplace; workplace violence and workplace violence risk assessment/response.
Materials
June 2013
State Law Guide: Workplace Restraining Orders
Publisher(s):This guide covers state laws and legislative proposals affecting an employer's ability to seek restraining orders for employees in situations involving domestic violence.
Materials
- General Material
January 2013
Women who Stay: Perspectives of Latina Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence on Staying with or Leaving Abusive Partners
Publisher(s):Many women, regardless of race or ethnicity, choose to continue to live with partners who have been (or continue to be) abusive. Traditional domestic violence intervention approaches have emphasized women leaving abusive relationships, but the applicability and acceptability of this approach for women from culturally diverse backgrounds, including immigrant and Latina survivors of IPV, is not well understood.
Materials
- General Material
- Training Tools
January 2011
Advocacy Beyond Leaving: Helping Battered Women in Contact with Current or Former Partners, A Guide for Domestic Violence Advocates
Publisher(s):Using the familiar and concrete framework of woman-defined advocacy, the Guide explains advocates’ important role in safety planning when victims are in contact with current or former partners.
Materials
- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
October 2008
Meeting Survivors' Needs: A Multi-State Study of Domestic Violence Shelter Experiences
Publisher(s):This groundbreaking study provides important insights into the role that shelters play in survivors' efforts to escape violence and abuse. Results capture the voices and experiences of over 3,400 shelter residents in 215 programs across eight states.









