Policy & Systems Advocacy Content Topic Results
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September 2016
LGBTQ DV Targeted Recommendation: Improve Privacy as a Strategy to Increase LGBTQ Access to Existing DV Shelter Programs
Publisher(s): This targeted recommendation offers practical ways that domestic violence shelter programs can improve the privacy of survivors from policy changes to building remodeling to increase access to shelter for LGBTQ survivors.
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September 2016
LGBTQ DV Targeted Recommendation: Rethink Pro-Arrest Policies and Criminal Justice Reform Using Historic, Current and Emerging Knowledge from Diverse Sources in the DV Field
Publisher(s): This targeted recommendation urges both mainstream and LGBTQ specific service providers to actively consider the negative systemic impacts of law enforcement and the criminal legal system on communities at the margins.
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September 2016
LGBTQ DV Targeted Recommendation: Compensate LGBTQ Organizations for Their Expertise
Publisher(s): This targeted recommendation advocates for LGBTQ organizations to be fairly compensated (either monetarily or materially) for formal and informal training and TA support given to mainstream domestic violence organizations.
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September 2016
LGBTQ DV Targeted Recommendation: Involve, Learn From, and Build the Leadership of LGBTQ Youth
Publisher(s): Young people ages 12-24 experience violent crime at higher rates than the rest of the population. This targeted recommendation provides considerations and strategies for creating youth programming that lifts up the self-determination of LGBTQ youth experiencing violence.
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September 2016
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Publisher(s):Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, this film offers an examination of the U.S. prison system, looking at how the country’s history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in the United States.
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August 2016
State HIV Laws
Publisher(s): An interactive and user-friendly guide allowing survivors and advocates to find state-specific legal information about details about HIV Testing and Laboratory Reporting Laws.
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August 2016
Domestic Violence Fact Sheet: Access to HHS Funded Services for Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence
Publisher(s): This fact sheet is intended to provide guidance to health and social service agencies and community-based organizations about eligibility for all the various programs and services funded by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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August 2016
Federal Guidance on Access to Services for Immigrants
Publisher(s):U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
This letter issued by DOJ, HHS and HUD provides information for recipients of federal funds regarding the kinds of services that are considered to be necessary to protect life or safety that all individuals, regardless of immigration status, can access.
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August 2016
Sexual Assault by Law Enforcement
Publisher(s): This webinar highlights Andrea Ritchie's research which determined that 52 percent of 35 police departments surveyed in the U.S. do not have a policy addressing or preventing sexual violence by police officers, despite the issuance of a 2011 guidance on the subject by the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
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July 2016
What is HIV/AIDS?
Publisher(s):This brief overview includes HIV 101 information such as signs and symptoms and testing sites across the US.
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July 2016
Understanding Non-Binary People: How to Be Respectful and Supportive
Publisher(s): This fact sheet includes basic information about gender identities beyond the male/female binary.
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July 2016
Understanding Transgender People: The Basics
Publisher(s): This fact sheet from that National Center for Transgender Equality provides basic information and defines key terms such as transgender, gender identity, and gender expression.