A Snapshot in Time: Indigenous Leadership in the Creation of VAWA

This webinar is an opportunity to remember how the power of relationships led to creating the Violence Against Women Act and ensured the voices of Indigenous women who were battered were heard and reflected in the legislation. This conversation is with two nationally known indigenous advocates who pro-actively participated in the conceptualization and writing of Violence Against Women Act of 1994. Read More ››

Accountability is a Requirement for Safety and Change

This webinar considers questions key to making survivors of intimate partner violence safe: What is accountability? What about from the perspective of survivors? Who are the offenders? Who has responsibility for holding offenders accountable? What do comprehensive, culturally based offender accountability programs look like? What are the resources needed to create a system that holds offenders accountable, and also support change for them to become respectful relatives? Read More ››

rainbow colored beads on a string dance across the cover, with the words "NIWRC Advocacy for LGBTQ2S+ Resources, Data, and Barriers

Advocacy for LGBTQ2S+ RESOURCES, DATA, and BARRIERS

The landscape of IPV in the LGBTQ2S+ community doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The LGBTQ2S+ community faces challenges like homelessness, housing insecurity, discrimination, police violence, bias, lack of services, and even rejection of services. Overlapping forms of oppression are a dangerous reality of LGBTQ2S+ survivors, and these realities are strongly reinforced by Western colonial structures and beliefs. Read More ››

Advocacy Information Packet

Advocacy Information Packet

This Advocacy Information Packet is a collection of articles, booklets and handouts covering a range of topics about advocacy with emphasis on work with survivors of intimate partner violence. Read More ››