Communities of Color Content Topic Results

This briefing paper and fact sheet describe unique and particular ways in which girls and women of color experience racial profiling and criminalization across a range of situations and settings. YWCA references studies and reports that document patterns, trends, and statistical comparisons between racial and ethnic groups, as well as news articles and media accounts to illustrate experiences of women and girls of color.

In NRCDV's September 2017 TA Question of the month, NSVRC language access coordinator Maria Jirau-Torres shares insight on ways that domestic violence programs can better reach out to Latin@ communities.

Homicide is the most severe health outcome of violence against women. Findings from this study on female homicide data from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) during 2003–2014 indicate that young women, particularly racial/ethnic minority women, were disproportionately affected.

This TA Guidance provides a broad perspective to the field that states that women of color lives matter, and that it is imperative that we reach out to the margins in order to bring the experiences of women of color to the center of our work.

This paper describes in detail a wide range of disparities and inequities experienced by women of color across the domains of economics, safety, and health. It explains that these outcomes are not the result of individual ambition or aptitudes, as conservatives often suggest, but rather an outgrowth of a web of racialized and gendered rules—policies, institutions, and practices—that have emerged from the United States’ long history of racism and sexism.

Methamphetamine has been identified as one of the largest threats to public safety in Indian Country. This webinar discusses how methamphetamine use and the complex nature of criminal jurisdiction on Indian reservations, along with historically underfunded and understaffed services have resulted in major challenges for tribes to address domestic violence and child abuse.

This webinar, presented by Reverend Traci Jackson Antoine and Dr. La Donna Combs, specifically addresses how domestic violence advocates can better support African American victims who are faithful.

This webpage includes links to various NIJ-funded research studies examining the nature, characteristics and extent of dating violence.

This guide is designed to be distributed to anti-violence program advocates and educators working with youth to create social change.

This roundtable summary describes the perspectives of American Indian and Alaska Native men who are involved in efforts to end domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking in their communities.

Studies show the percentage of people of color in the executive director/CEO role has remained under 20% for the last 15 years even as the country becomes more diverse. This publication from the Building Movement Project examines key findings on widespread systemic barriers to leadership positions for people of color in the nonprofit sector and offers strategies to address these barriers.

For Latin@ survivors of domestic violence, faith can be particularly critical as both a resource and a barrier to safety. The purpose of this resource is to share some of what Casa de Esperanza has learned over the years about working with and within the Latin@ community.