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.

The Journalist Playbook is by and for journalists and survivors who want to change the conversation. From survivor perspectives to real-world examples of good journalism, find the tools and sources you need to report on domestic violence.

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 memorandum excerpts selected literature on strangulation in IPV, which can affect people of all genders and identities.

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

This pull-out pocket guide for law enforcement is a quick reference from the Law Enforcement Officer’s Guide to Enforcing Protection Orders Nationwide. It provides responding officers with information on enforcing protection orders pursuant to full faith and credit provision of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), 18 U.S.C. § 2265.

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.

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.

Memo containing excerpts from social science literature about common ways survivors cope with and implement strategies to mitigate the harms of IPV.

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 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.

Conversations with anti-violence advocates on key themes and approaches for addressing mass incarceration, racial justice, and alternatives to the criminal legal system.

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.

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.

Tips, references, and guidance for new domestic violence expert witnesses, especially those testifying from the perspective of the prosecution.

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

An eight step guide to how to prepare for virtual court including, technology, evidence, testimony, additional court dates, arguments, court orders, and tips.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Step-by-step guide and overview of domestic violence-related federal firearm prohibitions for law enforcement.

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 prosecutors on protection orders, the application of federal law, considerations, and coordinated community efforts.

This checklist includes guidance for law enforcement on protection orders, misdemeanor crimes, seizure and safe return of firearms, and more.

This checklist includes guidance for judges on protection orders, facilitating enforcement, misdemeanor crimes, surrender of firearms, and judicial notification.

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

This guide informs law enforcement on how to enforce protection orders across the nation under the full faith and credit provision.

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

This checklist includes guidance on facilitating the firearm discussion, firearm removal, enforcement of firearm prohibitions, and transfer/return of firearms.

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.