Cultural Competence Content Topic Results

This handbook highlights the importance of culture and provides guidance to develop cultural competency at the individual and organizational levels.

This is an easy-reference guide to help communities across Canada create and maintain partnerships to help prevent domestic violence.

A five-session curriculum designed for grades 6-8 for use by communities from all streams of Judaism. Focusing on the tools needed to build healthy relationships and to prevent dating violence, the course explores issues related to self-esteem, gender roles, healthy friendships and dating relationships, as well as offering strategies for helping those who are involved in abusive relationships.

The Indian Health Service has a long history of providing reproductive health services to Native American women in a manner that challenges a woman’s right to services and violates her basic human rights.

This legal guide contains information in chapter format ranging from An Overview of Human Trafficking, T Nonimmigrant Visas, Continued Presence, Benefits for Victims, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status for Children, and resources for advocates.

This report looks at women's economic status across several indicators: women's earnings, gender wage ratio, % of women in managerial/professional occupations, women's business ownership, and poverty. State profiles are available.

The collection of documents address legislation aimed at both legal and illegal immigrants and its potentially harmful effects on victims of domestic violence and trafficking. The documents also provide additional resources for research and assistance.

This paper describes VAW in South Asian context. It discusses the policy initiatives made internationally and how these policies have yielded little action in this region. Core challenges in addressing VAW in this region are discussed and suggestions are offered for way ahead.

This document provides an overview of the problem of elder abuse among the Native American population. Challenges to providing services and current initiatives are also discussed.

This document describes the nature and extent of elder abuse in Indian country, what is being done about it, and identifies promising approaches and practices for addressing the problem.

This document summarizes the barriers facing and resources available to American Indian victims of sexual victimization, with a focus on systemic barriers found in the organizations and communities most likely to serve native women.

Provides a summary of efforts made by the Alianza to understand and respond to the barriers and challenges and concludes with recommendations for service providers to develop culturally and linguistically appropriate materials.