Cultural Competence Content Topic Results

With the approaching holiday season, questions may arise about how to appropriately respond to the food-related needs of survivors in shelter and how to manage excess food donations. This brief document offers guidance from the NRCDV Technical Assistance Team.

This webinar highlights best practices for advocates when working with Latino survivors.

This factsheet presents a summary of data gleaned from current studies examining intimate partner violence in Latin@ populations.

Data on transgender people is scarce and unreliable, as this FAQ explains, and is not critical to meeting survivors’ needs; listening to and believing survivors is. However, this fact sheet offers some data on violence against trans people, along with key references.

This webinar is designed to assist service providers in better serving transgender survivors of sexual assault and other forms of violence. Topics covered in the webinar include a discussion of the diversity under the transgender umbrella, social, medical, legal and other options for transgender people, conversation about components of a transgender person's life that may or may not be relevant to service providers and resources to support transgender crime victims and the professionals who serve them.

In this webinar, presenter Chai Jindasurat explains the nuances of intervening with survivors/victims and perpetrators of LGBTQ domestic violence, including how oppression and discrimination create barriers to accessing system-based responses for LGBTQ survivors and strategies to meet the specific needs of LGBTQ survivors in your local community.

This information packet contains nearly a dozen resources focused on serving, engaging, and collaborating with individuals and communities who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning (LGBTQ). The packet contains resources to support counselors, advocates, preventionists, technical assistance providers, and allied professionals committed to affirming all individuals and communities.

This fact sheet explains the importance of service providers knowing why they are required to ask specific questions, and explaining to survivors what information the agency is trying to find out with the questions. This is particularly important when working with trans individuals.

Advocates often wonder about how to reach and provide culturally relevant services to meet the needs of diverse communities of color. NRCDV's July 2012 offers guidance on providing services that are culturally relevant and accessible.

This Handbook outlines immigration remedies for non-citizen victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. It is intended to aid attorneys who typically practice family law and have experience working with domestic violence victims. The Handbook hopes to aid such practitioners in expanding their services to those victims who also need legal help with their immigration issues.

This brief presents data on homicides in Washington State involving Native American victims and perpetrators, and domestic violence homicides on tribal land.

This fact sheet discusses the terms paradox. Asking what terms a person uses and using those terms to refer to them conveys respect and openness, however terms provide very little information relevant to providing appropriate services.