On Dec. 19, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. overturned…
Futures Without Violence recently submitted a new round of comments in response to a proposed rule that would have made it nearly impossible for survivors of …
On July 18, 2017, a group of Senators stood up …
Title: Trauma-Informed Approaches to Working with Immigrant Children
Date Recorded: September 27th, 2016
Description: This webinar is designed for anyone working with children who have experienced trauma who …
To address violence against women in immigrant and refugee communities, we must recognize the unique challenges facing immigrant and refugee women as they struggle for safety in this country.
While progress has been made to develop services, enacting protective laws, …
Title: Centering Survivor Dignity: Applying the Wisdom of Social Movements to Address Health Needs
Last Tuesdays with the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence
March-June 2024
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March 26th, 2024
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Health Cares About Domestic Violence Day (HCADV Day) 2022
Reproductive Justice is Survivor Justice: Bodily Autonomy, Health, and Safety Panel
Wednesday, October 12th at 10am PT/11am MT/12pm CT/1pm ET – 90 Minutes
In the United States, over the course of their …
Mona Muro is a public health and economic justice thought partner. During her career, she has championed anti-gender-based violence work with grassroots organizations, and community members, and fought to keep survivor voices at the heart of the movement. …
June Barrett is a long-time home care worker, a queer Jamaican immigrant, an executive Board Member at the Miami Workers Center and a leader in NDWA’s We Dream in Black Project. June has been active in speaking out …
I have an ACES score of 9. That means I grew up with 9 of the 10 categories of Adverse Childhood Experiences that Drs. Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda found to be highly correlated with health risk …
Title: Collaborating with Culturally Specific Community-Based Programs to Support Survivors of Human Trafficking, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Date: March 24th, 2022 @11AM PST/ 2PM EST
Description:
Culturally …
Camila Sanchez Tejada is the Program Assistant for Health Partners on IPV + Exploitation at Futures Without Violence. Camila earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from San Francisco State University (SFSU). During her last semester …
Aging with Respect is an intervention addressing elder abuse, neglect and intimate partner violence with those later in life. It is developed for those patients/clients with agency and capacity in non-crisis, non-emergency situations that provides information about healthy and safe …
This is a great and important day for America – …
Intimate partner violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and human trafficking are on the rise during COVID-19 because many families and survivors are staying home, or are isolated from support systems. This isolation, along with increased stress and financial instability, puts …
The Promoting Employment Opportunities for Survivors of Human Trafficking (PEOST) Project is closely monitoring the impact COVID-19 is having on the economy and employment opportunities available to survivors of human trafficking. This page will be continually updated with new information …
Title: Integrating Assessment for Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking into Advocacy Programs: Promising Practices and Emerging Tools
Date: April 4, 2019
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Aging with Respect is an intervention addressing elder abuse, neglect …
Even at this time when our discourse has gone from …
When I first looked at the Futures Without Violence website, …
Debbie Lee has been with Futures Without Violence, formerly, Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) since 1980. She is currently a Senior Vice President working on policy and practice that helps healthcare providers and educators address the …
Mónica Arenas is a Program Manager at Futures Without Violence, working on the Rights and Social Justice Project and Legal Program. Ms. Arenas has participated in the development and implementation of training programs and technical assistance …
On June 11th, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a decision in an immigration case brought by a victim of domestic violence seeking asylum in the United States. The decision attempts to erode protections for immigrant survivors of domestic …
Current Co-Sponsors (28): Engel, Torres, Espaillat, Sires, Crowley, Gutierrez, Wasserman Schultz, Norton, Raskin, Meeks, Huffman, Deutch, Correa, Khanna, Lee, Soto, Lewis, Pallone, Velazquez, Gonzalez, Napolitano, Titus, Blumenauer, Rosen, Gomez, Maloney (Sean Patrick), Welch, Veasey,
Organizations in Support: …
The Portland Defending Childhood Initiative was a comprehensive initiative aimed at improving the community’s resources for both the prevention and treatment of childhood exposure to violence. Portland Defending Childhood Initiative’s work focused on educating the community about violence prevention, collaborating …
Perpetrators of sexual harassment do not act in a vacuum. Harvey Weinstein certainly did not commit his decades of sexual harassment in covert isolation. It was an “open secret” for many in and outside of the industry.
Consider the co-workers …
Futures Without Violence along with partners Asian Pacific Institute on …
President Trump’s most recent executive order on immigration bans immigration …
