Racial Justice Content Topic Results
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June 2021
Moving from Intention to Impact: Funding Racial Equity to Win
Publisher(s): This joint study from PolicyLink and the Bridgespan Group analyzes the state of funding for racial equity work. Among a host of important findings, the report highlights the necessity of accountability with rigorous and transparent reporting and the need for funders to trust and defer to the articulated needs of movement leaders.
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- NRCDV Publications
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May 2021
WEBINAR: Strengthening our Evidence Toolkit - Fortaleciendo Nuestra Caja de Herramientas de Evidencia en la Practica
Publisher(s): Research and evaluation can be powerful tools for community-based programs in the gender-based violence (GBV) field. However, these tools also have a history of being used to harm marginalized communities, overburden GBV staff and organizations, and reproduce systemic inequities. This webinar explores key strategies to conduct research and evaluation in ways that avoid replicating harms and instead center survivors and advance social justice.
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May 2021
AAPI LGBT Adults in the US: LBGT Well-Being at the Intersection of Race
Publisher(s): This report from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law analyzes several data sources to provide information on adults who self-identify as AAPI and LGBT, including separate findings on Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
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April 2021
Shrouded in Silence: Police Sexual Violence: What We Know & What Can We Do About It
Publisher(s): Survivors of police sexual violence are rarely heard from or discussed in either conversation, and their experiences generally do not drive organizing and advocacy in either context. This report is intended to contribute to breaking this silence, to summarize what we know about sexual violence by law enforcement officers, and to offer concrete steps toward prevention of police sexual violence and increased safety, support, and opportunities for healing for survivors.
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April 2021
Breaking the Silence: Supporting Survivors of Police Sexual Violence
Publisher(s): Amidst a growing national conversation about sexual violence sparked by #MeToo and the ‘me, too.’ movement originated by Tarana Burke, and an ongoing national reckoning around the violence of policing, one form of sexual and police violence remains shrouded in silence: police sexual violence. This is a curriculum for sexual assault service providers intended to accompany Interrupting Criminalization’s report Shrouded in Silence: Police Sexual Violence - What We Know and What We Can Do About It.
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April 2021
Youth Mobile Response Services: An Investment to Decriminalize Mental Health
Publisher(s): This report evaluates the role of law enforcement and mental health systems in the United States and their relationships to racial justice – recognizing that over the past few centuries these systems have caused more harm than good. The report highlights an important alternative to using law enforcement to respond to mental health and social crisis: mobile response.
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March 2021
What is Gendered Islamophobia?
Publisher(s): This workshop is specifically tailored towards practitioners in the field of gender-based violence and gender justice. Presenters focus on ways practitioners can better understand how gendered Islamophobia shows up in their work, and how to respond in holistic ways.
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March 2021
The Guide to Allyship
The Guide to Allyship is an open source starter guide to help you become a more thoughtful and effective ally.
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February 2021
Solving racial disparities in policing
Publisher(s): This piece by the Harvard Gazette discusses the history of racialized policing, highlights current issues with policing and the criminal justice system, and outlines community-based ways forward.
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- NRCDV Publications
February 2021
NRCDV Radio Episode 39: Stories of Transformation: Joy, Pride & Passion of Youth Activism
Publisher(s): Young people have always been a crucial part of movement building and organizing. In this NRCDV Radio podcast production, host Lamar Greene and guests explore the pride, passion, creativity, and joy of youth activism.
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- NRCDV Publications
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February 2021
WEBINAR: Meaningful Partnerships to Support Youth at the Intersections of Homelessness and Gender-Based Violence
Publisher(s): Recognizing and understanding the intersections of youth homelessness/housing insecurity and gender-based violence is critical to creating meaningful services and effective intervention and prevention strategies. This webinar examines the scope and unique characteristics of relationship violence amongst RHY, and explores the why and the how of building and sustaining effective community collaborations to best serve youth at the intersections.
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February 2021
We Are Calling to You: Alaska's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Womxn and Girls
Publisher(s): This baseline report from Data for Indigenous Justice is a reclamation of stories, and is intended to be a tool for Alaska Native and Indigenous communities to self-determine pathways to justice and ensure the safety of our people.