For over 50 years, survivors’ voices and realities have shaped responses to domestic and sexual violence. From emergency shelter to sheltering solutions beyond imminent threats of harm, housing has always been a critical part of…
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This infographic briefly describes a sequence of supporting survivors of domestic violence at first in temporary or emergency housing and then into longer-term permanent housing. This info is condensed from the longer publication by Kris…
Many victim services programs have long used hotel and motel stays to stretch emergency housing capacity, accommodate households who need to opt out of community shelter models, and as a bridge to imminent shelter openings…
While survivors’ housing needs are much more on the radar than even five years ago, with new targeted funding and community initiatives underway to better serve them, the systems built to respond to housing insecurity…
This two-page document provides a flow chart that illustrates the process of Assessing for and Appropriately Responding to the Housing Needs of Survivors. This depicts a recommended approach to assessment, which is not intended to…
This article describes the common struggle with how to equitably and fairly implement coordinated entry (CE) through use of a screening tool that assigns points to individuals or families based on their ‘vulnerabilities.’ As an…
The Lang Report, a longitudinal needs assessment, was designed and implemented to learn how Safe Horizon can better support emergency domestic violence shelter residents both during and after their stay in shelter. The specific goals…
This report focuses on the agencies who have integrated or are in the process of integrating transgender, gender non-conforming, or non-binary individuals into their domestic violence shelters. This document does not cover basic information about…
This manual was written by nationally-recognized animal and family advocate Allie Phillips. It contains the guidelines that she began developing in the mid-1990s as a prosecuting attorney. Recognizing both the urgent need to protect domestic…
This study was sponsored by the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) and the Arizona Department of Economic Security (ADES). It had two main goals: (1) To survey rural DV victims, shelter operators, advocates and…
