Community Solutions to Sexual and Domestic Violence: VIRGINIA

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Serving Male-Identified Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

"Historically, domestic violence programs were born from the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s to address the needs of female survivors, who still represent the majority of victims seeking services today. Generally, the domestic violence movement has framed its work on a gender binary with men as perpetrators and women as victims. We have come to learn, however, that a woman-centered approach to advocacy only addresses the needs of a portion of survivors and largely fails to acknowledge and address male victimization."

A resource developed by the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, this Technical Assistance Guidance supports advocates seeking to build capacity to recognize and respond to survivors across the gender spectrum, while honoring the gender analysis that helps us understand the root causes of violence and oppression.

Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2020: Showing Up Together

For Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2020, the Action Alliance created resources to highlight the connections between gender-based violence and youth incarceration. With our partners Performing Statistics and RISE for Youth, national and state-wide organizations dedicated to ending youth incarceration and building campaigns around #NoKidsInPrison, Showing Up Together: Understanding the Connections Between Gender-Based Violence & Youth Incarceration is a graphic pamphlet for advocates, preventionists, and people in community working to support survivors of violence and build towards a world free of violence and free of youth prisons.

Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative - Publications and E-Learning Tools

As originally published by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, the Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative (SADI), the first large scale project of its kind, was created to enhance sexual assault outreach, services, and community partnerships in dual/multi-service programs. Six sites across the nation engaged in a four-­year process of assessment, planning, and implementation of new and enhanced services and organizational capacity building. The materials that were developed based on the lessons learned across project sites can be found at https://www.nsvrc.org/sexual-assault-demonstration-initiative, many of which are avaiable in English and Spanish.

Topics include:

• - Foundations of Advocacy
• - Culturally Relevant Services for Tribal Communities and Communities of Color
• - Picturing Your Program: Planning for Organizational Growth
• - Listening to Survivors - Essential Steps for the Intake Process
• - Comprehensive Services for Survivors of Sexual Violence
• - Throw Away the Menu: Broadening Advocacy
• - It Matters! How Defining Sexual Violence Defines Advocacy Programs
• - Building Cultures of Care
• - Listening to Our Communities: Assessment Toolkit
• - Trauma-Informed Care
• - Lessons for Local Programs & SADI Timeline Overview
• - and the Final Report
   

What is the Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative (SADI) - Watch this brief overview to learn more about the Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative (SADI) and the lessons learned from this national project.

Sexual Violence in Later Life

This four page document outlines specific information on the broad range of offenses perpetrated against people age 60 and beyond, and discusses how advocates can respond to the special needs of older sexual violence victims.

Sexual Violence in the Lives of African American Women

Black women’s sexual victimization has occurred in a unique sociohistorical context. This applied research document published by VAWnet provides an historical overview of institutional sexual violence perpetrated against Black women beginning with the enslavement of Africans and continuing to the present day.  Risk factors, the physical and mental health consequences, culturally sensitive responses, and the resilience of Black survivors are discussed.