BOLETÍN: A legal empowerment guide for advocates serving survivors
This guide was created to support advocates and organizations working with survivors of domestic and sexual violence by clearly outlining the federal laws that protect survivors’ access to services.
Toolkit: Primary Prevention in AANHPI & MENA Communities
This toolkit documents the the ongoing practices, policies, and programs aimed at stopping violence in/within Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander (AANHPI) and Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) communities.
FinTech: How Mobile Payment and the Gig Economy can Help Enhance Survivor Safety
This document explores how FinTech and the so-called “gig economy” can be used by survivors to increase their safety and help them build their long-term safety plan.
This memo offers social science literature to explain the link between IPV victimization and substance use/SUD for practitioners working with criminalized survivors.
This memo contains excerpts from social science literature about the impacts of trauma on survivors’ ability to recall the details of traumatic events.
The Impact of Parental Kidnapping Laws and Practice on Domestic Violence Survivors
Explores the role that domestic violence plays in a high percentage of parental kidnapping cases and the need to illuminate that role for a fair applications of justice.
Lessons from the Field: Talking About Mass Incarceration, Racial Justice, and Alternatives to Reliance on the Criminal Legal System
Conversations with anti-violence advocates on key themes and approaches for addressing mass incarceration, racial justice, and alternatives to the criminal legal system.
Knowledge into Action: Resources & Tools for Change
Draws from resources and tools related to ending mass incarceration, centering racial justice in communities and institutions, and creating alternatives to the criminal legal system.
Provides practice tips, immigration law info, a sample expert report, and citations for experts/attorneys representing interpersonal violence victims in immigration proceedings.