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This TAQ, excerpted from the newly released book The Future of Youth Violence Prevention: A mixtape for practice, policy, and research, offers recommendations for best practice centered on the 6 core beliefs of the ACE-DV Leadership Forum, reflecting the shared perspectives that emerged from the common experiences of adult children exposed to domestic violence in childhood.

This TAQ explores the prevalence of gender-based violence among Native women, COVID-19's impact on the Indigenous population, and how they connect to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit movement.

This TAQ explores the stigma around trauma despite its commonality, and centers dignity and humanity as the pathway to changing this narrative for both advocates and survivors.

This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter highlights new resources, upcoming professional development opportunities, and exciting developments in the prevention field, with a particular focus on economic justice as a violence prevention strategy.

Today, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) is pleased to announce the release of Policy Recommendations to Increase Safe Housing for Survivors: Learning from & Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships.

This October marks 40 years since the passage of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA), the primary federal funding source dedicated to supporting emergency shelters and services for victims of domestic violence and their families.