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This webinar offers tools and guidance for programs of all sizes and individuals across the nation. Local organizations share their key to successful events, challenges they've encountered, and lessons they've learned along the way.

This paper offers guideposts for responding to the needs of male-identified victims of intimate partner violence. It is meant to be a resource to foster meaningful dialogue around supporting inclusive services for all victims and survivors seeking safety and healing.

In NRCDV's July 2017 TA Question of the month, Shaina Goodman offers guidance for advocates and domestic violence organizations seeking to engage in legislative action.

Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) provide an organized and community-based response to sexual assault, bringing together a collection of stakeholders including rape victim advocates, medical/forensic examiners, law enforcement, and prosecutors. To understand how an effective SART works, NIJ-funded researchers studied the structure and operations of SARTS across the United States. Findings are featured in this article.

A multisector health equity approach addresses the underlying contributors to DV and inequities in DV (harmful norms, weak community responses, housing insecurity, economic insecurity, and others) and promotes community environments that support safe and equitable relationships and communities. This publication offers research, analysis, and frameworks to understand factors within communities that support safe relationships and reduction of domestic violence.

This report describes the evolving field of sexual and domestic violence prevention, and summarizes key findings, examples of innovative work, and resources from PreventConnect's 2016 web conference series.

The annual Trafficking in Persons report is a comprehensive resource of governmental anti-trafficking efforts. It represents an updated, global look at the nature and scope of trafficking in persons and the broad range of government actions to confront and eliminate it. The U.S. Government uses the TIP Report to engage foreign governments in dialogues to advance anti-trafficking reforms and to combat trafficking and to target resources on prevention, protection and prosecution programs.

Domestic and sexual violence is a leading cause of homelessness for women and children. This new website highlights the important intersection of domestic & sexual violence and homelessness and provides resources for advocates.

The technical package is intended as a resource to guide prevention decision-making to help communities and states stop intimate partner violence before it starts, support survivors, and lessen the short and long-term harms of intimate partner violence.

This toolkit is designed to help domestic and sexual violence (DSV) advocates understand the evolving health care landscape and make strategic choices as they decide whether and how to partner with health care providers in order to reach more survivors of DSV in need.

Data analyzed in this report, although not specific to intimate partner violence, suggest that victims of attempted or completed violent crimes rarely use firearms in self-defense.

For the eleventh consecutive year, on September 14, 2016, NNEDV conducted a one-day unduplicated count of adults and children seeking domestic violence services in the United States. This annual census documents the number of individuals who sought services in a single 24-hour period, as well as the types of services requested, the number of service requests that went unmet due to a lack of resources, and the issues and barriers that domestic violence programs face as they strive to provide services to victims of domestic violence.