Elder Abuse, Gender-Based Violence, Lifecourse Violence and Help Seeking, Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence, Our Analysis
From the aborting of female fetuses to intimate homicide, girls and women may encounter numerous oppressions during infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and as elders. Some of these are confined to one stage in the lifecycle, some continue into subsequent...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Refugee Survivors
These training slides address the impact of trauma and resettlement challenges on refugee communities; the dynamics of domestic and family violence in refugee populations in the US and how they restrict refugee women’s economic security. Categories Asians and Pacific...
Elder Abuse, Gender-Based Violence
These training slides from a workshop by API-GBV analyzes elder abuse in the context of abuse over the lifecourse (see the Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence). It enumerates several types of abuses API elders may face, including forced labor and emotional neglect, and...
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...
Child Custody in Domestic Violence Cases, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
These training slides address considerations affecting Asian and other immigrants — including different dynamics of domestic violence, trends in abuse, barriers faced by immigrant and refugee mothers, and gender bias in mediation — and the implications for...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Culture & Gender-Based Violence, Our Analysis, Survivor Centered Advocacy
Culture is too hastily understood as ethnic culture, but in fact we all inhabit multiple cultures simultaneously and need to understand which ones we are operating in to be effective. These training slides, authored by Dr. Sujata Warrier, can be used by advocates to...
Domestic Violence, Language Access, Interpretation, and Translation, Limited English Proficient (LEP) Survivors, Sexual Violence
These training slides will help advocates: – Learn how victim experiences can affect interpretation – Articulate the dynamics of domestic violence in English and the target language – Assess how the language of sexual violence impacts a victim’s...
