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.

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.

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.

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.

Conversations with anti-violence advocates on key themes and approaches for addressing mass incarceration, racial justice, and 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.

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

The project adapts the domestic violence Power and Control Wheel into culturally specific frameworks for Native Hawaiians, Samoans, and Chuukese people.

Report analyzed 2000-2005 newspaper clippings on DV-related homicides in Asian families, finding 78% of victims were women and girls.

Peer-reviewed data on domestic violence affecting AAPI communities, including statistics on community attitudes, health impacts, and homicide.

The infographic identifies types of violence across the lifespan, raises awareness of historical violence, and reduces victim blaming.

This handout provides relevant statutes and a chart that outlines key factors regarding criminal jurisdiction in Indian country. Designed for judges in Nevada.

Handout listing valuable resources for considering issues related to protection orders in tribal and/or rural settings. Designed for judges.

Report findings inform more equitable, effective civil protection orders for often-overlooked AAPI survivors.

Guide/Checklist on federal law/Supreme Court history for Tribal court jurisdiction to enforce protection orders against non-members with full faith and credit.

Tip sheet is designed to assist practitioners in foreseeing, recognizing, and eliminating barriers to justice in the protection order process for people with disabilities.

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 bulletin is designed to ensure that state and local law enforcement officials across the country have the necessary information to enforce and prosecute violations of tribal protection orders.

This guide explains civil versus military protection orders to help advocates increase survivor safety and accountability.

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 toolkit includes a checklist and resources for assessing and assisting victims/survivors of domestic abuse who have a connection to the U.S. Armed Forces.