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Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
Publisher(s):This webpage explains what the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program is, who is eligible, and how to access it.
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Organizational Capacity Building
Publisher(s):This page provides resources and tools to grow organizations that can sustain racial equity work, with attention to their internal processes as well as their capacities to work on equity.
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Domestic Violence Survivors
Publisher(s):This webpage identifies a number of consumer issues faced by survivors of domestic violence, including: budgeting, prioritizing debt, credit reports, repairing damaged credit, utility rights, managing debt, assistance with payments, student loans, bankruptcy, and foreclosure.
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Traumatic Brain Injury and Domestic Violence: What do professionals need to know?
Publisher(s):This document provides information and relevant resources for the early detection of TBI among domestic violence survivors. It also offers an analysis of the intersection between brain injury and domestic violence as well as other relevant information.
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The Red Flag Campaign
Publisher(s): The Red Flag Campaign uses bystander intervention strategies to address and prevention sexual violence on college campuses.
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A Statewide Profile of Abuse of Older Women and the Criminal Justice Response
Publisher(s):This statewide study in Rhode Island of domestic violence in older women and the response of state authorities found a relatively larger proportion of intimate partner abuse than previously found in adult protective service surveys.
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Identifying and Assisting LGBT Elder Abuse Clients: A Guide for Abuse Professionals
Publisher(s):This guide contains information for advocates on identifying and working with LGBT specific elder abuse. The guide covers terms, historical factors related to LGBT elders, new rights and protections for LGBT elders and suggested practices in working with LGBT older adults.
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Culturally-Specific Community and Systems Engagement
Publisher(s):Culture is often understood as ethnic culture, but in fact we all inhabit multiple cultures simultaneously and need to understand which ones we are operating in to be effective. This helpful resource from the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence explores the intersections of culture, community and systems.
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Practical Issues: Preparing and Prosecuting Elder Sexual Assault Cases
Publisher(s):This booklet explores obstacles to prosecution of elder sexual abuse cases and offers practical solutions for professionals involved in these cases.
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Inside Out: Strengthening Advocacy and Services for Refugee, Immigrant, and Limited English Proficient Survivors
Publisher(s):The Self-Assessment Guide is a tool kit for doing the "inside work" within programs to strengthen and expand services for immigrant survivors.
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Measuring the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Survivors of Color
Publisher(s): Since March, the COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated the stark racial, gender, and socioeconomic health inequalities that have always existed in the U.S. This report makes seven policy recommendations for addressing the socio-economic effects of COVID-19 on survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
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Community Organizing Toolkit: Your One-Stop, Online Resource for Local Community Organizing Efforts Against Sexual & Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):The primary purposes of this community organizing toolkit are to help support member programs and their community partners in creating a community-wide response to the issues of sexual and domestic violence; change community norms that support violence against women; and mobilize local communities for social change.