Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Gender-Based Violence, Immigration, Sexual Violence
Related Resources Advisory Revised Feb 2022: How Will ‘Public Charge’ Proposed Policy Changes Impact Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault? AdvisoryThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is proposing a new rule that put longstanding policy...
Community-Based Participatory Research
This case study discusses the Survivor-Centered Advocacy (SCA) Project, a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project that convened anti-violence advocates from culturally specific communities to design and implement research. The project used a unique...
Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Pacific Islanders
A compilation of statistics on domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and help-seeking in Pacific Islander communities. Related Resources Defining an Effective Response to DVSA in American Samoa By American Samoa Alliance Against Domestic & Sexual...
Community-Based Participatory Research, Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement
In the fall of 2014, The Full Frame Initiative (FFI) published a report – How Do Survivors Define Success? – that influenced the domestic violence field and provided a call to action, and the Learning Circle Project described in this summary was a response. During the...
Gender-Based Violence, Trafficking, Trauma-Informed Care
Building from what trafficking survivors have taught us, this webinar discusses how to identify survivors, how past experience of help-seeking can influence current attempts, and the importance of trauma-informed care at different points of contact with survivors such...
Asian Pacific Islander Demographics and Census Data, Asians and Pacific Islanders, Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Pacific Islanders, Sexual Violence
This guide, written by the Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP), provides an overview of the diversity in the Pacific Islands and aims to orient the reader on the geographical, historical, ethno-linguistic, and cultural diversity of the Pacific Islander...
Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement, Gender-Based Violence Worldwide, Pacific Islanders
The purpose of this research is to assess the state of gender-based violence (GBV) in Niue through a review of existing literature and interviews with government officials and community leaders. This report highlights some of the unique features of Niue and avenues to...
Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement, Gender-Based Violence Worldwide, Pacific Islanders
This literature review synthesizes material from the reports on violence against women in Pacific Island Countries and presents analysis of social contexts, challenges in addressing violence against women, the nature and extent of violence against women, accessing...
A-Z Advocacy Model, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
The A-Z Advocacy Model is defined by the nexus of an extraordinary inventory of evidence-informed practices in response to existing and new trends in gender-based violence and inter-and intra-API cultural and linguistic diversity. It is anchored in principles that...
Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Innovative Strategies
The Community Engagement Continuumdocuments a range of innovative community based approaches in the anti-violence movement and clarifies the goals of engagement. The four points on the continuum – outreach and education, mobilization, organizing, and accountability –...
