Policy & Systems Advocacy Content Topic Results

Both survivors and advocates have shared that language access is a barrier to health and behavioral health access. This tipsheet describes how language justice can support survivor access to services and provides resources for capacity-building for domestic violence and behavioral health organizations.

It is not enough to support survivors in finding employment, but also critical to support survivors in maintaining employment. FreeFrom models the workplace policies survivors say they need to stay employed, including living wage salaries, 401k accounts with an employer match, flexible work hours, paid and protected GBV leave and emergency safety grants, and more.  

Leading with the shared vision that “All families deserve living conditions in which they can thrive,” this graphic illustration utilizes NRCDV’s Storytelling Framework to center survivors of color for whom economic insecurity poses significant barriers to safety and well-being. This resource makes the case for wage equity as a critical pathway to intimate partner violence prevention, and can be used with a variety of audiences as a tool to move people to action.

A guide for domestic violence and mental health service providers, advocates, and organizations to improve services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and Two-Spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) individuals, build partnerships and referral networks with LGBTQIA2S+ culturally-specific organizations, and eliminate bias based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.

Workshop participants will walk away with increased knowledge of how oppression can manifest across the socio-ecological model and the importance of interrupting the early onset of oppression before it escalates to a macro level, historical contributions of Black early movement contributors and the values they leaned into that laid a foundation for the anti-violence work that we do today, and more.

In this first-ever U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, the Federal Government advances an unprecedented and comprehensive approach to preventing and addressing sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and other forms of gender-based violence.

For over 50 years, survivors’ voices and realities have shaped responses to domestic and sexual violence. From emergency shelter to sheltering solutions beyond imminent threats of harm, housing has always been a critical part of conversations connected to survivor safety and well-being.

This page from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities provides background information on the EITC, including who is eligible and work incentive features.

This toolkit is intended to be a starting point for promoting LGBTQ survivors’ access to shelter spaces, and agency-wide training and technical assistance is a critical next step.

As a field, we understand that power dynamics are multi-dimensional and seep into almost every aspect of our personal and professional lives. This Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ), authored by staff at Futures Without Violence, offers examples of ways gender-based violence organizations have put their values into action.

This research highlight provides an overview of research on early childhood trauma and its relevance to childcare and early education (CCEE).

This report summarizes the findings from an evaluation of the LGBT Center of Central Pennsylvania's pilot flexible financial assistance model. This includes the challenges encountered and lessons learned in the implementation process along with preliminary evidence of the success of the flexible financial assistance model.