Cultural Competence Content Topic Results

This toolkit is designed to help trans people and their advocates navigate daily lived experiences of discrimination and oppression. Topics covered include restrooms, aging, parenting, identity documentation, and more.

The Building Dignity website offers a range of solutions and strategies for domestic violence emergency shelters to increase their capacity to provide supportive housing for all survivors, including LGBTQ survivors.

This Technical Assistance (TA) Bundle includes resources to help advocates and service providers increase their capacity around serving male-identified victims. Promising practices are shared throughout the resources to invite those helping survivors in developing programs and services to support survivors across the gender spectrum.  

Be the change we wish to see in the world. That is just what the staff of the NRCDV had in mind when we launched the Access Initiative in 2006. The Initiative represented NRCDV's organizational commitment -- as an employer, service provider, and community member -- to individuals with disabilities and accessibility in general.

This paper notes immigrant women's language barrier to accessing services for domestic violence. The paper provides guidance to police, prosecutors, courts, corrections centers, and shelter programs for determining their obligations toward immigrant women who experience domestic violence.

This guide contains information for advocates on identifying and working with LGBT specific elder abuse. The guide covers terms, historical factors related to LGBT elders, new rights and protections for LGBT elders and suggested practices in working with LGBT older adults.

This short film provides interviews with individuals self-identified as transgender or genderqueer. It also presents an overview of the spectrum of gender identity and sexual orientation.

This document is an illustration describing the violence that may happen throughout the lives of Asian and Pacific Islander women during the life stages of infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, adulthood and later life.

Research has shown that transgender individuals are disproportionately impacted by the violence in intimate partner relationships. In addition, transgender communities face many systemic barriers while accessing services to redress intimate partner violence. This toolkit was designed to create dialogue on transgender intimate partner violence, ways to support survivors, and identify resources for intimate partner violence.

This report is the result of six months of research between Sovereign Bodies Institute and collaborating partners that examines how rates of violence against Indigenous and American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities have shifted from 2016 to 2021, and what impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had.

This resource provides healthcare providers with strategies to incorporate a culturally competent lens to their trauma-informed approach into their practice.

This one-pager offers tips for hearing advocates to engage in effective, respectful communication with Deaf or hard of hearing individuals.