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April 2023
Surviving Post-Separation Abuse: Supporting Survivors After Escaping Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):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.
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April 2023
Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
Publisher(s):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.
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April 2023
Trauma-Informed Workplaces: Concepts, Strategies, and Tactics to Build Workplaces that Support Well-Being
Publisher(s):This toolkit provides educational concepts and practical strategies to support team members (I.E., defined in this toolkit as employees, staff, workers, interns, fellows, C-suite leadership, human resources and administrative professionals, volunteers, committee and board members, etc.) in advocating for more trauma-informed workplaces.
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March 2023
Stalking Charges: An Opportunity, Not an Afterthought
Publisher(s):This webinar examines the dynamics of stalking, challenges common misconceptions about stalking behaviors, and provides strategies for improving victim safety and strengthening investigation and prosecution efforts.
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March 2023
Considerations for Trauma-Informed Child Care and Early Education Systems
Publisher(s):This research highlight provides an overview of research on early childhood trauma and its relevance to childcare and early education (CCEE).
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March 2023
Rubric for Responsiveness to LGBTQ Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence for Domestic Violence Service Providers
Publisher(s): 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.
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November 2022
Military Family Advocacy Program | Domestic Abuse
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October 2022
Recovery from Male Sexual Abuse
Publisher(s):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.
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October 2022
DVAM Webinar Series: #1Thing to #Care4Advocates Mind, Body, and Soul
Publisher(s): This free 3-part webinar series will feature tools and strategies for supporting advocates’ health and wellness, including ways to prioritize self-care and avoid burnout. Presenters explore how creating the conditions where advocates can thrive aligns with our values.
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October 2022
"Our Communities Hold the Solutions": The Importance of Full-Spectrum Doulas to Reproductive Health and Justice
Publisher(s): Doulas provide invaluable support to pregnant and birthing people - but doula support is available across a wide variety of experiences, including abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth. The people who provide this essential care are commonly called full-spectrum doulas.
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September 2022
Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage
Publisher(s):The resource examines the global prevalence of modern slavery, highlighting the significant increase in forced labor and forced marriage worldwide.
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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.









