Wider Opportunities for Women Content Topic Results

In Focus: Sexual Violence is the first in a series of research and policy briefs that explore the economic implications of violence and abuse, and offer recommendations to augment and strengthen opportunities to support the economic security of survivors. Future installments will cover Domestic Violence, Stalking, and Trafficking.

The brief provides recommendations for how direct service providers, coalitions, STOP administrators and policy makers can respond to these issues and implement effective solutions to keep Native survivors safe.

The brief provides recommendations for how direct service providers, coalitions, STOP administrators and policy makers can respond to these issues and implement effective solutions to keep survivors over the age of 60 safe.

The Prosecutor's Guide includes checklists with specific actions that prosecution staff can take, training guidelines, policy recommendations and a pocket guide to accompany trial notebooks.

The brief provides recommendations for how direct service providers, coalitions, STOP administrators and policy makers can respond to these issues and implement effective solutions to keep survivors aged 14-24 safe.

Part of the Population Policy Brief Series, it provides recommendations for how direct service providers, coalitions, STOP administrators and policy makers can respond to these issues and implement effective solutions to keep LGBTQ survivors safe.

Part of the Population Policy Brief Series, this brief examines the common barriers that rural survivors face in building economic security, escaping or recovering from victimization, and seeking support and justice. The brief provides recommendations for how direct service providers, coalitions, STOP administrators and policy makers can respond to these issues and implement effective solutions to keep survivors safe in rural communities.

The Law Enforcement Guide includes checklists with specific actions that officers can take, training guidelines, policy recommendations and a pocket guide for first responders and investigators.

The brief provides recommendations for how direct service providers, coalitions, STOP administrators and policy makers can respond to these issues and implement effective solutions to keep Black, Latino, Asian and Pacific Islander (API), and immigrant survivors safe.

The Getting Started Handbook equips case managers and direct service staff with the information and resources they need to counsel survivors in economic self-sufficiency and career planning. This tool is a step-by-step guide on how to comprehensively address the economic security of survivors, including assessment, education and training, and employment.

The STOP Guide provides data on the links between survivor safety and economic security and examines how the STOP grant program can respond to the challenges they pose to survivor safety. Organized by Program Purpose Area, the STOP Guide outlines how survivor economic security can be incorporated into the work of each STOP sector: law enforcement, prosecutors, courts and advocates.

Wider Opportunities for Women has created a self-sufficiency standard to determine how much money working adults need to meet their basic needs without subsidies. While this standard is not used for eligibility for federal assistance programs, it provides an interesting context for the existing federal poverty guidelines.