Community Care: Advocacy for Latin@ survivors of IPV in health systems
This easily understood toolkit explains some of the barriers Latin@ survivors of IPV may face when accessing healthcare and discusses ways in which advocates can assist.
30+ Anti-Asian Hate Statistics: Prevalence, Impacts, & Causes in 2024
Educating yourself and others about the scale and impact of ant-Asian hate is the best way to better understand those who experience racism. Sharing information about their experiences helps to uplift their voices, foster compassion, and diminish prejudice or ignorance to the problem.
The Framework: The 5 Steps to Protecting Children
The 5 Steps to Protecting Children™ form a framework for preventing child sexual abuse. They can help you become aware of the scope of the issue, take actionable steps towards both preventing and responding to abuse, and create safer environments for the children in your life.
Sexual Assault Prevention, Support, and Healing
This month’s complication of recent resources and trainings focus on key advocacy elements regarding sexual assault: Prevention, Support, and Healing.
Breaking Barriers: Working with Latina/x/e Survivors
This training teaches advocates more about the experiences of Latina/x/e survivors, helps identify barriers to help seeking and engagement experienced by Latina/x/e survivors, and explores strategies for addressing barriers experienced by Latina/x/e survivors.
Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota
Since Native women are at exceptionally high risk for poverty, homelessness, and sexual violence which are elements in the trafficking of women, and because the needs of Native women are generally not being met, and because prostituted women are at extremely high risk for violence and emotional trauma, our goal was to assess the life circumstances of Native women in prostitution in Minnesota.
About Child Sex Trafficking
This helpful webpage talks about the definition of child sex trafficking, explains who is most vulnerable, talks about specific populations that are more at risk, and explains experiences of those who have been sex trafficked before, during, and after trafficking experience.
The Fight Against Child Trafficking
This webpage talks about the myths and facts of child trafficking, child trafficking in conflict zones, the particular effects on girls, and offers FAQs for child trafficking.
We don’t need heroes
When it comes to human trafficking, we need to question the narrative around rescuing survivors.
Failed Interventions: Domestic Violence, Human Trafficking, and the Criminalization of Survival
There has been no systematic overview of the statutes that require courts to consider a defendant’s history of trauma in the contexts of domestic violence and human trafficking. There has also been no attempt to explore how these statutes relate to each other. This Note fills those gaps. It also identifies essential elements future statutory interventions in these contexts must include in order to grant effective relief to survivor-defendants.