National Black Women's Justice Institute Content Topic Results
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October 2022
Black Women & Girls, Gender-Based Violence, and Pathways to Criminalization & Incarceration
Publisher(s): Gender-based violence—including domestic violence—impacts an astonishing number of Black women and girls. And when Black women and girls experience gender-based violence, the strategies they take to survive are often criminalized. Ending the systemic punishment and incarceration of Black women and girls requires that we decriminalize survival. This factsheet spotlights the impact of gender-based violence on Black women and girls and the ensuing criminalization that occurs.
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September 2022
Leadership of Voices of Experience (LOVE) Curriculum
Publisher(s): Led and driven by currently and formerly incarcerated women, the Leadership of Voices of Experience (LOVE) Project has developed a training curriculum for victim service providers that builds providers’ capacity to support system-impacted women and gender expansive people—people who are transgender, gender nonconforming, gender queer, nonbinary.
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January 2022
Sex Trafficking of Black Women and Girls
Publisher(s):This fact sheet outlines why we need to shift the narratives around sex trafficking to center Black survivors.
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October 2021
Mental Health of Black Girls: The Case for Gender-Specific and Culturally Affirming Services
Publisher(s): Racism has critical implications for Black adolescent girls’ mental health. This fact sheet from the National Black Women's Justice Institute outlines the case for gender-specific and culturally affirming services in order to address the mental health needs of Black girls.
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February 2019
Expanding Our Frame: Deepening Our Demands for Safety and Healing for Black Survivors of Sexual Violence
Publisher(s): This report from the National Black Women’s Justice Institute explores how recognizing the pervasive and systemic nature of sexual violence against Black women, girls, trans, gender nonconforming and nonbinary people by police, penal, and immigration officers, in prisons, jails and/or detention facilities, and in social service, learning, and health care settings, calls into question our reliance on these systems and structures of dominance as responses to sexual violence, and as effective mechanisms of prevention, early detection, and healing.
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September 2017
Be Her Resource: A Toolkit about School Resource Officers and Girls of Color
Publisher(s): This toolkit provides guiding principles and policy recommendations that are designed to improve interactions between girls of color and SROs, with the ultimate goal of reducing girls of colors’ disproportionate rates of contact with the juvenile justice system.