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 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.

In this first-ever National Plan to end GBV (May 2023), the Federal Government advances an unprecedented and comprehensive approach to preventing and addressing sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and other forms of gender based violence.

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.

In October 2025, BWJP and Centre for Public Impact co-hosted “Reimagining a Whole-of-Society Approach to Ending Gender-Based Violence: Strategies for Action” in Chicago. This report summarizes the powerful conversations that took place and lays out recommendations for moving forward.

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 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.

The article promotes enhanced collaboration between Community Violence Intervention and anti-domestic violence efforts to improve family and community safety.

Toolkit for advocates, attorneys, court personnel, and law enforcement to ensure compliance with VAWA's "no fee" prohibition for 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 toolkit supports advocates in educating communities about the life-saving value of protection orders and improving the implementation of firearm prohibitions to protect survivors.

This resource is a brief, practical "palm card" designed to provide essential information for securing child support when the co-parent is abusive.