Policy & Systems Advocacy Content Topic Results

This guide provides brief language of state laws and legislative proposals explicitly covering unemployment insurance eligibility in situations involving domestic violence. Live links are provided to the alphabetized laws and bills from the document.

This document is an alphabetical listing of states and counties that have adopted DV workplace policies. States with model policies for private businesses are included. Live links to laws, executive orders, and bills are contained within the document.

This resource was designed to support advocates in beginning conversations about HIV with survivors of domestic violence.

That there are many ways advocates can help improve birth related outcomes for pregnant survivors accessing services. NRCDV's July 2014 TA Question of the Month offers insight on how to do so.

This report describes the Lethality Assessment Program—Maryland Model (LAP), created by the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence (MNADV) in 2005, which is an innovative strategy to prevent domestic violence homicides and serious injuries.

This webpage provides a list of enacted legislation through 2014 addressing teen dating violence. 

Victims of intimate partner violence who are military service members, veterans, or partners of service members or veterans, often have specific legal issues related to the military. Attorneys who are unconnected to the military must understand those issues or run the risk not only of inadequate representation, but also of increasing danger to their clients. While resources on legal representation of service members and/or veterans exist, this handbook specifically addresses additional considerations for attorneys when representing military-related victims/survivors:

This guide provides practical information supported by the experiences of transgender survivors and some specific challenges that victim service providers may encounter.

This resource provides an overview of family law options for immigrants and immigrant victims, with a particular focus on how to address and respond effectively when immigration status, language access and other issues intersect in family court cases involving immigrants.

This webinar describes the process leading to the recommendation that Maine risk assessment practice be updated to include the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA) tool.

This webinar highlights how batterers who wear a badge can misuse their professional training and authority as weapons against their victims. Officers who are victims of intimate partner violence may be reluctant to identify as victims and may face negative professional consequences for reporting, or failing to report, the abuse.

This blog provides brief recommendations for emergency physicians on screening ED patients for intimate partner violence.