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  • Guidance Document

Guidance Document

Safety Planning: A Guide for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Individuals Who are Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence

This tool is designed specifically for transgender and gender non-conforming survivors of intimate partner violence. Its aim is to help survivors identify ways of being more prepared to keep themselves (and children and pets), safe.

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  • Tool / Toolkit

Tool / Toolkit

Equal Access for Transgender People: Supporting Inclusive Housing and Shelters

The training materials in this document provide CoCs and government partners with the framework to create welcoming and inclusive projects for transgender and gender non-conforming people. Transgender and gender non-conforming people sometimes face different issues…

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  • Article / Publication

Article / Publication

Gender-Integrated Shelters: Experiences and Advice

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…

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  • Tool / Toolkit

Tool / Toolkit

Transgender Sexual Violence Survivors: A Self Help Guide to Healing and Understanding

This self-help guide contains the following six sections:

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  • Media / Webinar

Media / Webinar

Increasing Access for Trans and Gender Nonconforming Survivors

This slide deck will:

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  • Guidance Document

Guidance Document

Sheltering Transgender Women: Providing Welcoming Services

This Technical Assistance Guidance highlights effective strategies for integrating trans women into shelter, building on the knowledge that most shelter staff and allied professionals have already developed practice, familiarity, and skill in providing shelter services…

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  • Tool / Toolkit

Tool / Toolkit

Equal Access Expectations Toolkit: Training Scenarios

This toolkit presents role play exercises incorporate best practices to assist frontline staff and management in fostering an inclusive shelter community and how to comply with local requirements and the Equal Access Rule.

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  • Guidance Document

Guidance Document

Practical Tips for Working With Transgender Survivors of Sexual Violence

The prevalence of sexual violence (SV) among transgender individuals is a matter of guesswork that depends on who you ask and who they know. It is a fairly well accepted statistic that about 1 in…

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  • Guidance Document

Guidance Document

Transitioning Our Shelters: A Guide to Making Homeless Shelters Safe for Transgender People

This guide is meant for shelter administrators and staff, government officials, and anyone who is interested in making shelters safe for transgender people. Many shelters across North America have successfully implemented policies to make shelters…

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