As non-profit professionals with tight budgets and long lists of deliverables, we sometimes overlook the importance of stopping to evaluate the impact of our work. Evaluation is critical, however, to sustain the quality of the work and to justify what we do. Do you spend...
Service animals are vital to some survivors with disabilities. They can provide independence and mobility and truly act as partners to their handlers. However, domestic violence shelters and other residential programs might struggle with how to: 1) interact with service animals; and 2) balance the...
Domestic violence (DV) and sexual assault (SA) service staff increasingly provide assistance to survivors of human trafficking (HT). While there is no official estimate of the total number of HT victims in the U.S., the number of victims reaches into the hundreds of thousands when...
Black Women’s Blueprint coined the Sexual Abuse to Maternal Mortality Pipeline (SAMM), the result of a six-year national sexual assault and GBV intervention process to collect survivor narratives as a Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Rape culture underlies both the pervasive nature of sexual violence...
Black Women’s Blueprint coined the Sexual Abuse to Maternal Mortality Pipeline (SAMM), the result of a six-year national sexual assault and GBV intervention process to collect survivor narratives as a Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The existing research on obstetric violence is limited, which complicates...
Black Women’s Blueprint coined the Sexual Abuse to Maternal Mortality Pipeline (SAMM), the result of a six-year national sexual assault and GBV intervention process to collect survivor narratives as a Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Research on the long-term effects of sexual violence in the...
Black Women’s Blueprint coined the Sexual Abuse to Maternal Mortality Pipeline (SAMM), the result of a six-year national sexual assault and GBV intervention process to collect survivor narratives as a Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Much of the research on reproductive and obstetric violence is...
While it’s impossible to go over everything a new preventionist would need to know in a 90-minute web conference, it is feasible to provide an overview of starting points and key frameworks that shape sexual and domestic violence prevention. New preventionists, prevention supervisors, and all...
With the momentum of #MeToo and #TimesUp comes an increased focus on workplace sexual harassment and assault, and preventing these forms of violence across all industries. From the service industry to corporate jobs to farmworkers and janitorial workers to those working 9 to 5’s to...
