This brief report summarizes key findings from a qualitative evaluation focused on the experiences of domestic violence advocates and direct service providers supporting Black immigrant and refugee survivors. The evaluation aimed to identify the factors…
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This qualitative study explores the experiences and needs of both survivors of domestic violence who utilize interpretation services and the interpreters who support them. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 14 participants (8 survivors and 6…
This report highlights three alternative housing models to helping survivors of inter-personal violence (IPV) achieve more equitable housing outcomes. The housing models discussed here include: a state coalition that is building permanent housing using Low…
This webinar for FVPSA grantees was coordinated to discuss creative ways American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds can be used to meet survivors’ safe housing needs. Featuring members from NRCDV’s National Capacity Building Center on Safe…
This guidebook is written for those individuals who have chosen to dedicate a time in their life to work with abusedwomen, children and their abusers. It attempts to recognize the unique experience of anti-violence workers…
Formed in April 2001, the Downtown Women’s Action Coalition (DWAC) consists of service providers, advocates, and downtown residents whose goals are to improve current housing and services for women and increase the resources available for…
This booklet is designed to help determine if traumatic experiences may be causing some or all of the difficult symptoms a person is experiencing. It provides some simple and safe things that can help promote…
This report features the work of Asha Family Services, Inc., (Asha), a domestic abuse program in Wisconsin specifically designed to serve the needs of African Americans. Asha is governed by people of color committed to…
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…
This excerpted chapter from HUD’s Public Housing Occupancy Guidebook reviews best practices that a pubic housing administration may rely on when working to house survivors of domestic violence.
For the past 30 years, researchers and practitioners have been concerned about the impact of work stress experienced by social workers. Although research on burnout has been a useful field of exploration, a new concern…
This tool is to be used by sexual assault and domestic violence programs to review their programs and services to ensure that people with disabilities have equal access and an equal opportunity to participate. Accessibility…
The research reported here demonstrates how a gender-based analysis of housing programs, such as the Affordable Housing Initiative (AHI), could address issues of substantive equality, or equity of results for women. Housing policies and programs…
This one-page summary lists multiple general facts about housing trust funds in the United States.
