Resource Library

This month, we created a complication of recent resources and trainings centered around mental health, including how to talk about it, how to support family members and advocates, and how it is sometimes seen intersecting in our work.

Being able to offer support, family members can connect those in need with treatment, resources, and services to begin and stay on their recovery journey. This resource holds resources for family members around how to start the conversation about mental illness and substance use, including videos, talk sheets, and more.

This resource collection from NAMI addresses topics relevant to family members and caregivers of those who experience mental illness, including resources around supporting that family member and maintaining the relationship, taking care of yourself, crisis prevention, and additional support.

In this episode, National Runaway Safeline discusses the stigma surrounding mental health within the Black community, the emotional toll of code-switching, and the personal journeys of Amea Smith and Antonio Davis-Robinson.

Recommendations and tangible resources to help advocates in the gender-based violence movement better support survivors within marginalized communities in addressing their mental health needs.

This session will demonstrate Accessible, Culturally Responsive, and Trauma-Informed approach to supporting survivors experiencing trauma and substance use coercion.

This webinar from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) and Just Detention International (JDI) suggests how you can communicate about sexual violence as something that men experience, and about what services are available at your sexual program for men who are survivors.

These tip sheets for advocates and providers discuss many of the intersections at play when working with male sexual violence survivors on their healing journey.

This first session discussed sexual harm and how it affects everyone, how our biases create barriers for the male survivors we work with, how the societal definition of being a man doesn’t always fit with the societal definition of a “typical survivor”, and the importance of creating space.

This podcast is a conversation with Kelly Mays and Sara McGirr about the process used and findings from an equity focused sexual assault community assessment process in Michigan. They discussed practical lessons and tools that can be used to increase community engagement, build authenticity, and strengthen trust and connections

This guide overviews child sexual abuse and grooming, discusses the lasting effects on adult survivors, explains how adult survivors can navigate healthy relationships after childhood sexual abuse, and talks about how to support adult survivors.

Topics included are: On-campus prevention, Cultural stigma, Limitations of resources and support, Culturally specific and safe resources, Barriers faced by international students, Barriers surrounding Title IX, and Community retaliation.

The findings of this assessment are about the experiences of Black, Native, LGBTQ+, and Disability communities in Michigan related to four key community and societal level protective factors determined and defined by collaborators: (1) Community connectedness, (2) Economic supports, (3) Community safety, and (4) Bodily Autonomy

This brief web-article talks about the importance of active listening, allyship, empowerment, and resilience. It offers LGBTQ-friendly survivor support resources.

Speakers draw connections between the conversations in each of the three housing episodes and share their insights, highlighting the many ways prevention is linked to housing. This included how social determinants of health, housing, and community are interlinked and are tied into experiences of sexual violence.

This informative and engaging web-based guide is a useful tool for parents and guardians about how to talk to their children about healthy sexuality, including healthy communication, expressions of sexuality, boundaries, respect, and more.

This paper explores these LGBTQ+ pathways to polyvictimization, but also—and more importantly—discusses simple and effective ways victim service providers, school personnel, and members of the general public can intervene and make a huge difference.

This webinar discusses how victim service professionals recognize that members of the LGBTQ community often experience polyvictimization, but experiences of bullying are reported both at schools and home.

This collection provides general information about TDV then provides more information about TDV with young people, bystanders, parents and caregivers, men and boys, and service professionals. It concludes with TDV-related legislation and program suggestions.

This tool will serve to equip community youth advocates with culturally-responsive strategies to navigate systems to support youth Latin@ survivors of IPV, increase knowledge of barriers to improving the health of Latin@ survivors of IPV, and mobilize advocates to promote holistic and sustainable support within families and communities.

Young people from underserved rural communities experience teen dating violence at disproportionate rates. This booklet is for domestic and sexual violence service providers or counselors who are serving young people who have experienced abuse.

This report explores how consent and boundaries are understood and practiced in AANHPI contexts, highlights how gender expectations and the need to respect certain individuals make it hard to establish boundaries, and presents recommendations for advocates and educators.

This factsheet provides an overview of basic child welfare services, describes how disaster preparedness and response and child welfare professionals can support one another's disaster preparedness efforts, and offers additional resources for more information.

Children with disabilities experience higher rates of abuse and neglect, which is one risk factor for youth homelessness. This podcast between National Runaway Safeline Youth Advisory Board members EJ Velez & Rachel Litchman discusses invisible disabilities and navigating the healthcare system as a young person experiencing homelessness.

This factsheet is intended to help parents (birth, foster, and adoptive) and other caregivers better understand the challenges of caring for a child or youth who has experienced maltreatment and learn about available resources for support.

This issue brief explores what the research shows about the overlap among families experiencing poverty and those reported to the child welfare system for neglect, the societal context within which both poverty and neglect exist, and strategies that have proven effective for preventing and addressing both poverty and neglect, together.

One tool common to those who sexually abuse kids is grooming: manipulative behaviors that the abuser uses to gain access to a potential victim, coerce them to agree to the abuse, and reduce the risk of being caught. While these tactics are used most often against younger kids, teens and vulnerable adults are also at risk.

This guide provides an overview of basic child welfare services, describes how domestic violence services advocates and child welfare professionals can support one another’s efforts in working with families, and presents resources for more information.

This factsheet explains the long-term physical, psychological, behavioral, and societal consequences of child abuse and neglect and provides an overview of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). It also discusses the importance of prevention and intervention efforts and promoting protective relationships and environments.

This podcast from discusses child abuse with Larel Jacobs talks about how to have tough conversations with young people, explores the nuances of reporting -particularly on crisis lines, and explains why more children under the ages of 12 are reaching out to hotlines for help and information about child abuse.

This webinar discusses the intersection between MMIP and human trafficking, provides resources to address these crises, and shares actionable steps forward.

A panel of experts share information about potential indicators of labor trafficking, vulnerable industries, and a broad range of resources available to help organizations and tribes start, sustain, or grow their support services for victims of labor trafficking.

This detailed report discusses the four types of temporary work VISAs that are most commonly held by survivors calling the human trafficking hotline to report their experiences.

This online resource consists of anti-trafficking organizations and programs that offer emergency, transitional, or long-term services to victims and survivors of human trafficking as well as those that provide resources and opportunities in the anti-trafficking field.

This resource is available 24/7 for reporting human trafficking and looking for available resources. They have a call line, a text option, and an online chat. Their website hosts a variety of resources relevant for advocates and survivors.

This checklist can be used by professionals working on college campuses to identify areas of strength and areas of improvement in recognizing, preventing, and responding to stalking.

This factsheet overviews the scope of stalking in Native communities and its overlap with other forms of violence; stalking behaviors to ask clients about, including some specific to Native communities; recognizing that fear, resources, and need for assistance may change; and more.

This factsheet breaks down stalking behaviors into four categories: Surveillance, life invasion, interference, intimidation, and discusses how these behaviors may be uniquely experienced by immigrant victims.

The guide for advocates gives an in depth perspective on stalking and the unique ways in which the LGBTQ+ community can be impacted (systemic barriers, stalking behaviors, additional safety planning considerations, etc.)

This webinar discussed barriers to accessing helping services faced by LGBTQ+ people and how to mitigate harm. It talked about prevalence of stalking in the LGBTQ+ population and how various SLII stalking behaviors can be uniquely experienced by this population.

This webinar overviews the prevalence and implications of elder abuse then dives into stalking of older adults, including the role ageism and stereotypes play, the unique barriers older survivors of stalking face in reporting and service seeking, and the response to older survivors of stalking.

This webinar discusses collective historical and intergenerational trauma and provides information about vicarious trauma from an Indigenous-specific context. It discusses wellness approaches and culturally informed trauma approaches that providers can use when working with indigenous communities.

This recorded panel of crisis hotline advocates discusses the risk for burnout that hotline advocates often face and how they address those risks in their own work and give advice on how organizational leadership can support the wellbeing of crisis line advocates.

This article overviews what burnout is then deep dives into what people can do to recover with advice that includes identifying and addressing the specific cause(s), caring for the basics of the physical self, taking a vacation or time away, reassessing goals, setting boundaries, and focusing on positive thinking.

This article highlights the importance and necessity of supporting advocate wellbeing at the organizational level and offers tips for leadership to mitigate the effects of vicarious trauma in their advocates.

The first webinar in the series focuses on identifying how advocates are feeling about their work and their workplace, discusses the oppression advocates face – particularly advocates of color – and how it impacts mental health, and how to observe and communicate your capacity and that of others.

This brief article explains expressive writing and how advocates and survivors can use it to promote healing and wellbeing.

This article discusses the need to diversify GBV movement leadership in order to address the inherent racism.

This expansive collection overviews the connections between domestic violence and faith, how faith/spirituality can meet needs of survivors, and how advocates and faith leaders can build partnerships to support survivors.

This webinar discusses various ways that survivors of domestic violence can be criminalized by the same systems that are built to support. Presenters and attendees also shared barriers and ideas for supporting criminalized survivors.