Intervention & Prevention Content Topic Results

In November 2020, FreeFrom launched the second round of their Safety Fund and prioritized distributing grants to queer, trans, Black, Indigenous and Latinx survivors. This report details what FreeFrom learned from the process. 

Young people have always been on the front lines of our social justice movements, pushing us to be bolder and more innovative. The July 2022 Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) offers some key considerations for forming and sustaining a youth advisory board for your domestic violence organization.

Sexual violence is a serious – yet preventable – public health problem. The 2016/2017 report on sexual violence includes updated data for women and men overall and by race and ethnicity and provides information on the types of perpetrators, age at first victimization, and associated health conditions among victims of sexual violence.

This toolkit is aimed towards service providers, public health educators, advocates, and anyone who would like to inform their community about PFL and paid sick days in the state of California. This toolkit complements existing resources by providing a “train the trainer” curriculum to expand the community of individuals who understand their rights and can teach others.

Many domestic violence and homeless shelters are seeing rapid increases in the number of elders seeking shelter. This webinar discusses ways of responding to the needs of Indigenous elders who are experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness and what can be done.

Native women have been on the receiving end of many injustices. These injustices include homelessness and various forms of physical and sexual violence. Native women experience high rates of homelessness. The May 2022 Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) explains that advocates must understand the historical context of Native women's experiences in order to truly support them.

This white paper from the Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence explores how all local and statewide organizations, corporations, workplaces, and sectors can consider ways to adopt and advance policies that promote economic equity and revamp policies that may hinder success, stability, and safety for employees and communities.

How do we support women and girls, and assist advocates in creating brave spaces and thriving communities while we dismantle biased systems?

In this article, the authors use three case studies of hospitalized adolescents to illustrate the application of trauma-informed principles of care with this unique population.

This research brief synthesizes the latest available information and research relating to the mistreatment of adults with disabilities (AWD). This brief addresses the intersection of AWD and elder mistreatment.

The seeds for this survey were planted in the months following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Like the advocates at our member programs, ODVN wanted to better understand how survivors—women of color, specifically, along with other marginalized groups—experience law enforcement and other parts of the response system. We surveyed 505 survivors across the state to get some answers.

This Toolkit organizes information, resources, tips and tools drawn from the wealth of information gathered when the two service systems were convened through local collaborative projects funded by the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.