Trans/SOFFA-Specific Power and Control Tactics
This resource sheet lists power and control tactics that can be used against transgender victims as well as power and control tactics that can be used by transgender abusers.
View the 2020 Advocate Survey
Thanks to nearly 500 advocates statewide who completed the 2020 Biennial Michigan Advocate Survey, we have an inside look at the experiences and needs of advocates!
My Mental Health Crisis Plan App
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released a new mobile app, My Mental Health Crisis Plan, which allows individuals who have serious mental illness (SMI) to create a plan to guide their treatment during a mental health crisis. The app was developed through SMI Adviser, a project funded by SAMHSA and administered by the American Psychiatric Association. The app provides an easy, step-by-step process for individuals to create and share a psychiatric advance directive (PAD).
Abuse in Later Life Video from NCALL
An overview of the definition of abuse in later life. Video presenter: Bonnie Brandl. Produced by the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL) and Terra Nova Films.
Podcast for Change from NIWRC
“Safety and justice require action. As a movement, we can use our collective voices to engage and influence change.”
Human Trafficking Statistics – 2019
In 2019, Polaris worked on 11,500 situations of human trafficking reported to the Polaris-operated U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline. These situations involved 22,326 individual survivors; nearly 4,384 traffickers and 1,912 suspicious businesses. Human trafficking is notoriously underreported. Shocking as these numbers are, they are likely only a fraction of the actual problem.
Honoring Survivors’ Spiritual Needs: Supporting Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim Survivors of Domestic Violence
Participants learn how faith can be a resource or a barrier to hope, help, and healing; gain insight into faith-specific understandings; be aware of best practices and resources for engaging faith leaders as allies; and explore strategies for working with faith leaders in their communities.
Preventing Suicide
As a parent or educator, you can be a lifeguard for your children or students by understanding the warning signs and risk factors of suicide and letting the youth in your life know that support is always available if they need it.
Adult Protective Services Factsheet
Adult Protective Services is a social service program authorized by law in every state to receive and investigate reports of elder or vulnerable adult maltreatment and to intervene to protect the victims to the extent possible.
Law Enforcement Sexual Misconduct: Introducing a Model Policy Resource for Prevention and Accountability
“Through an examination of case studies and after-action reviews, the presenter will discuss the need for policy to proactively confront law enforcement sexual misconduct as well as introduce a new EVAWI resource titled: “Model Policy Resource: Law Enforcement Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Accountability.”