Communities of Color Content Topic Results
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April 2010
Women and Women of Color in Leadership: Complexity, Identity, and Intersectionality
This article describes the challenges that women and women of color face in their quest to achieve and perform in leadership roles in work settings.
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March 2010
Domestic Violence Fatality Review in Indian Country
Publisher(s):This article, which begins on page 8 of the NDVFRI’s Fatality Review Bulletin, provides information on conducting fatality reviews with American Indian tribes in Montana.
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February 2010
Reproductive Health of Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Women: Examining Unintended Pregnancy, Contraception, Sexual History and Behavior, and Non-Voluntary Sexual Intercourse
Publisher(s):This report presents baseline information on pregnancies, births, sexual history and behavior, contraceptive use, non-voluntary sex, and unintended pregnancy among urban American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) women nationwide.
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February 2010
Shattered Lives: Homicides, Domestic Violence and Asian Families
Publisher(s):This report analyzes 160 cases of domestic violence related homicides in Asian families based on newspaper clippings and information from advocates for a six-year period (from 2000 to 2005).
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February 2010
Innovative Strategies to Address Domestic Violence in Asian and Pacific Islander Communities: Examining Themes, Models and Interventions
Publisher(s):This report sets the agenda for future project endeavors. It is an initial inquiry into the broad universe of API experiences and reflections regarding our work towards addressing domestic violence in API communities.
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January 2010
¡Sí Podemos! Yes We Can/Beyond Domestic Violence: Achieving Financial Independence Video
Publisher(s):This video (English and Spanish version) accompanies the Achieving Financial Independence Curriculum. It features the lives and struggles of 5 Latina survivors of domestic violence who were able to start their own business and become financially independent.
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January 2010
Women of Color and the Struggle for Reproductive Justice
Publisher(s):This article outlines linkages between reproductive oppression, women of color, and communities of color. Statistics are included.
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January 2010
Building Domestic Violence Health Care Responses in Indian Country: A Promising Practices Report
Publisher(s):This report provides information and tools to help Indian health and community advocacy programs strengthen their clinical and community responses to victims of domestic violence.
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January 2010
¡Sí Podemos! Yes We Can/Beyond Domestic Violence: Achieving Financial Independence
Publisher(s):This curriculum contains practical tools for Latina survivors that are working on or reflecting about achieving their financial independence. A Trainers Guide for facilitators is also provided.
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January 2010
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Sites in Native Communities
Publisher(s):Recognizing how many eligible workers do not take advantage of the EITC, 14 VITA sites in Native American communities undertook a survey with more than 1800 American Indian/Alaskan Natives/Native Hawaiians to better understand how the EITC could benefit their communities.
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January 2010
From The Roots Up: An Overview of Shelter and Advocacy Program Development Supporting Women’s Sovereignty
Publisher(s): This resource offers a basic outline for the development of shelters and advocacy programs serving Native women who are battered or raped and their children. It provides an overall picture of elements and steps necessary in establishing a shelter.
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January 2010
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, challenges the civil rights community—and all of us—to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America