Strategies and leadership shared by Latina Promotoras serving Latin@ communities impacted by COVID-19.

This guide provides resources, statistics, and best practices to reach Latin@ communities in an emergency preparedness plan. These cost-effective, simple strategies will increase the health and safety of the Latin@ community during natural disasters and emergencies.

Using this resource guide, professionals can gain insight into the connection between climate change and gender-based violence, which is significantly compounded by changing weather patterns, extreme acute and onset weather events or natural disasters, public health crisis, and mass casualty events.

This Resource Guide includes links to and descriptions of 8 emergency preparedness related resources for people representing themselves and advocates including resources for representing yourself in custody proceedings during various emergencies.

Recommendations for how to prepare for emergencies if you still reside with the person causing you harm and if you are separated from the person causing you harm.

A review of each jurisdictions vaccine case law, vaccine policies, custody/visitation caselaw, and custody /visitation policies and court procedures during COVID.

A checklist for pre-crisis planning, a list of resources to prepare, and recommended partnerships to make.

Recommendations for what to prepare, precautions to take, issues that arise during emergencies, how to handle a pending legal case, documents to prepare, and common questions.

Este manual está destinado a ser usado en conjunto con el entrenamiento requerido por las personas que tienen la intención de proveer servicios de abogacía a sobrevivientes de asalto sexual en los centros de crisis de violación en California.

El propósito de este plan comunitario es ofrecer a los programas de asalto sexual de California un marco para pensar en cómo podemos trabajar más eficazmente con los socios de la comunidad, tanto de manera tradicional como inovadora.

The purpose of this Community Blueprint is to offer California’s sexual assault programs a framework for thinking about how we can work most effectively with community partners in both traditional and inventive ways.

Advocates are amazing people. Whether they serve as Rape Crisis Center staff members or volunteers from the community, they dedicate themselves to the challenging task of supporting survivors of sexual abuse and assault.

This booklet describes how to use action research in Close to Home’s community organizing approach.

This booklet offers an overview of Close to Home’s philosophy and practice for domestic and sexual violence prevention.

This booklet offers lessons learned from using Close to Home’s community organizing approach.

Outlines main themes and successful strategies for effectively reaching Latin@ communities during emergency situations.

A guide to handling enforcement existing court orders, requesting to move, or changing an existing court order during an emergency.

Webinar presentation regarding using the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) to help enforce protection orders nationwide.

Technology solutions to increase access to and enforcement of protection orders.

This fact sheet describes the realities of survivors with pets in the context of COVID-19, offering ways to utilize protection orders and community resources to help ensure support and safety.

This guide provides suggestions on how to capture evidence that can be admitted in court from your devices, such as your cell phone, computer, or tablet.

This toolkit supports advocates in educating communities about the life-saving value of protection orders and improving the implementation of firearm prohibitions to protect survivors.