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 explores some considerations that may be useful to fold into a criminalized survivor’s safety plan.

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.

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.

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.

Enlace a la capacitación gratuita de Shear Haven, que consiste en un video de 20 minutos seguido de un breve cuestionario de tres preguntas. Aunque la capacitación está dirigida a profesionales de la industria de la belleza, este curso gratuito en línea puede enseñar a cualquier persona sobre las señales de abuso y cómo ayudar.

Link to Shear Haven's free training, consisting of a 20-minute video followed by a short three question quiz. While the training is geared toward beauty industry professionals, this free online course can teach anyone about the signs of abuse and how to help.

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.

Resource to help advocacy programs ensure their programs are welcoming and accessible to justice-involved survivors.

Fact sheet details challenges faced by gender-based violence survivors criminalized for self-defense actions or behaviors linked to their abuse.

This memo addresses common misconceptions in programs that prevent effective support and engagement with criminalized survivors of violence.

Q&A guide helps advocate expert witnesses explain trauma and trauma responses in victims of battering and other forms of violence.

Describes how community supervision can decrease safety and increase violence for reentering victims of battering by eliminating or limiting viable options.

Guide for community-based advocates to understand and accurately explain complex concepts about trauma to domestic and sexual assault survivors.

Print/text version of a panel interview of formerly incarcerated women regarding their reentry experiences, insights, and suggestions for advocates and practitioners working with reentering survivors.

Explores topics and considerations for facilitating a group with victims of battering in jail or prison.

Presents the findings of a series of focus groups and interviews with female victims of battering who had been convicted of domestic-violence-related crimes against their intimate partners.

Manual with strategies for community-based advocates to provide effective support to incarcerated victims of battering, updated July 2025.

Tipsheet highlighting practical strategies for community advocates to help survivors successfully complete probation or parole supervision.

For practitioners working with criminalized survivors, it's helpful to be familiar with common reentry issues that people face when returning home from incarceration.

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

TA Brief on complex advocacy for adult and minor trafficking survivors, covering trauma-informed practices, confidentiality, and contact considerations.

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.

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

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

This resource provides information for practitioners who work with survivors seeking to relocate.

Toolkit for advocates to create brochures guiding survivors on the legal process of firearm removal in protection order cases.

Sample Firearm Survivor Information Template for editing: "What You Need to Know About Firearms and Your Safety"

Color-coded worksheets help pinpoint relevant IPV-related information for each element of SAFeR.

The SAFeR Practitioner's Manual help practitioners user the SAFeR method. SAFeR helps survivors–and attorneys and advocates who work with them–decide for themselves which options make the most sense under the circumstances.

The SAFE tool assists survivors with evaluating if, when, how, and for what period they may want to request that an intimate partner who abused them be prohibited from use, possession, or ownership of firearm(s) and ammunition.

Guide for prosecutors to understand and apply the principles of Full Faith and Credit for protection orders, ensuring nationwide enforcement.

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 checklist includes guidance for advocates on facilitating the firearm discussion, removal during issuance of protection orders, enforcement, and transfer.

This document addresses the legal impediments along with other considerations that jurisdictions face when implementing firearm relinquishment orders.

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.

Research-based guides for family courts to make informed, abuse-aware custody decisions centered on lived experiences.

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

This newsletter highlights key full faith and credit resources for professionals.

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.

Designed to help survivors, advocates, attorneys, mediators, judges, and others talk about whether a case is appropriate for mediation and, if so, how mediation can be structured to account for the nature, context, and effects of IPV.