Resource Library

This webinar features a panel of young people talking about their reentry experiences with the goal of helping professionals better understand and help young people to thrive.

Juvenile delinquency intervention and treatment programs have the broad goals of preventing crime and reducing recidivism by providing treatment and services to youth who have committed crimes. This short article talks about approaches that have been proven effective and those that haven’t.

A conversation between NRS and Margaret Windham, Executive Director at Cafe Momentum in Dallas about youth who have been involved in the juvenile justice system. They discuss the importance of community partnerships and the joy young people experience through their internships and externships.

This webinar series explores reasons victims of bettering get arrested, challenges faced in the legal system, effective advocacy strategies, and how to help victim-defendants navigate concurrent protection order proceedings.

This report provides statistics and explanations for the rise of incarceration of women and LGBTQ+ people. It points out problematic policing trends. It also provides many suggestions for impactful action to intervene on this issue.

This organization “addresses the unique needs of victims of gender-based violence who have been criminalized as a result of their experiences of being abused” by providing technical assistance, resources, and support for those who work with charged or currently incarcerated survivors, including advocates, defense attorneys, expert witnesses, and others.

This resource discusses the rates of incarceration, the lack of victim services for incarcerated survivors, the gap between victim services and re-entry systems, barriers to healing when formerly incarcerated, and more.

This report examines the abuse to prison pipeline as it stands today. It offers case examples, discusses the ways in which girls of color are uniquely targeted, a look at relevant legislation, and offers needed recommendations for change.

This month's compilation includes webinars, articles, and more to consider about addressing and preventing child abuse and neglect.

They may not last forever, but teen relationships matter to help create healthy relationships long-term. This month's compilation includes guides, references, and more to fostering healthy relationships and signs that a relationship may have some concerns.

In this month's compilation, hear from survivors as they discuss their experiences with labor and sex trafficking, trauma-bonding, the importance of acknowledging the intersection of trafficking types, and how to incorporate a holistic perspective when serving survivors. Also included are resources around increasing advocate understanding of labor trafficking so that we can better identify and serve survivors.

In this month's compilation, we collected resources and trainings that talk about stalking victimization. These resources offer tangible tools that advocates can use with survivors as well as resources that advocates can use to expand their own knowledge base.

This program aims to support crime victims and survivors in completing and submitting their Crime Victim Compensation applications, gathering necessary documentation, and providing ongoing assistance to the claimant and/or victim.

Michigan Indian Legal Services created these resources focused on the legal system to support Native American communities and survivors in Michigan.

In this month's compilation, we collected resources and trainings that talk about advocate wellbeing. The resources offer suggestions that advocates themselves can do and also what can be done to support advocate wellbeing on an organizational level.

In this month's compilation, we highlight one training that covers fundamentals of serving survivors of domestic violence. The rest of this roundup is dedicated to specific instances that come up in the domestic violence and intimate partner violence field for which we can give specific support.

In this month's compilation, we have pulled together resources and trainings that can help us better support youth who are at risk for or who have committed crime.

In this month's compilation, we have pulled together resources and trainings that can help us better support criminalized survivors and those survivors of crime who are incarcerated.

This toolkit was designed to provide comprehensive and culturally responsive informational and educational resources, tools, videos, and examples of best practices for law enforcement, forensic interviewers, victim advocates, and others to prepare them to effectively respond to victims of crime with disabilities across the lifespan.

This guide provides an overview of Federal civil rights laws that ensure equal opportunity for people with disabilities.