Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Innovative Strategies
Community accountability for abusers as a complement or alternative to the criminal legal system is an area of great promise as well as challenge. Accountability strategies could be contained within community-based organizations or led by them with the collaboration...
Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
In 2005, the Hmong Women’s Action Team (HWAT) began its Dialogues Project to re-engage Hmong women in conversation about their future. This document offers some background information, describes the challenges and obstacles Hmong face addressing sexism, and identifies...
Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Innovative Strategies
Outreach and intervention strategies by Asian and Pacific Islander (API) advocates have arisen as accommodations and alternatives to non-API domestic violence programs. Innovative strategies have been crafted out of necessity and by vision and intention. The ideas...
Abusive International Marriage, Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Gender-Based Violence
“Survivors are here to teach us, so their story becomes our story.” Hmong women working in domestic violence programs organized a series of meetings to understand the trends and issues in international marriages and to explore possible actions to address...
Gender-Based Violence, Trafficking, Trauma-Informed Care
a. Advocacy & Services for Trafficking Survivors, 2014: A comprehensive overview of sex and labor trafficking – actions/means/purposes, data, root causes, traumas and oppressions, help-seeking, legal remedies, cross-systems trauma-informed collaboration. b....
Culturally-Specific Advocacy
Advocates from Womankind showcase their Moving Ahead Positively (MAP) Model. Survivor-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally nuanced, MAP is an integrated practice model developed to help survivors transcend beyond trauma and progress on an individualized path to...
Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
This skit is easy to stage and engages any audience. It shows what a difference a friend, a parent, a child, a professional, or a community can make, and contrasts victim-blaming with empowerment. Riwa’s story raises awareness about gender expectations by women...
Advocacy for Muslim Women, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
This resource provides an overview of marriage and divorce among American Muslims for judges, lawyers, advocates, social service providers, imams, community leaders, and community members. The guide explores issues of Islamic and U.S. family laws as they relate to...
Advocacy for Muslim Women, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
This bibliography lists scholarly and popular works relevant to the topics of gender, domestic violence and Muslim women. Resources are organized by author. Related Resources What is Gendered Islamophobia? 2021 WebinarBuilding upon a history of shared values and...
