Financial Safety Planning
This resource reviews what financial abuse is, what a healthy financial relationship looks like, safety and finances, protection orders, and other considerations.
Podcast: Patchwork by OVW
“Patchwork offers a glimpse into the implementation of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) at the local, state, tribal, and national levels.”
Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence
The Lifetime Spiral reveals patterns of victimization by enumerating the types of violence, vulnerabilities, and harms women and girls face. Available in multiple languages.
Responding to Stalking: A Guide for Advocates
This resource document from SPARC reviews an understanding of stalking and its impact on victims; the advocates role in assisting victims such as safety planning, PPOs, compensation, and confidentiality; and provides case scenarios.
Best Practices Guidelines For Trauma Center Recognition of Child Abuse, Elder Abuse, and Intimate Partner Violence
“This guideline seeks to help the trauma practitioner identify victims of abuse that present with physical injury and to initiate treatment and reporting.”
Gender-Based Violence in Asian, Middle Eastern, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ Communities: A Roundtable Report
“This report summarizes and synthesizes discussion from a roundtable on GBV in Asian, Middle Eastern, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander LGBTQ communities, convened by API-GBV in September 2019.”
Online Dating and Hook-Up Safety Tips
This brief video from the Anti-Violence Project includes tips on staying safe from violence and getting support if violence occurs.
Survivor Law Clinic
“Survivor Law Clinic from MCEDSV seeks to make crime victims’ rights more meaningful for all Michigan victims. The Clinic provides the following services: Legal representation of crime victims to enforce their crime victims’ rights and mitigate the effects of victimization.”
Protection Order Definition Matrix
This matrix contains state statutes with the definition of domestic violence/abuse for obtaining a domestic violence civil protection order.
Intimate Partner Violence in the Black Community
Ujima has developed a factsheet on Intimate Partner Violence in the Black Community that includes statistics and facts on topics including homicide, stalking, and rape.