Guide for advocates supporting victim-defendants by providing court preparation guidance and suggestions for managing stress with self-care plans.

This fact sheet describes the realities of survivors with pets in the context of COVID-19, offering ways to utilize protection orders and community resources to help ensure support and safety.

Memo containing excerpts from social science literature about common ways survivors cope with and implement strategies to mitigate the harms of IPV.

This memo contains excerpts from social science literature about the impacts of trauma on survivors’ ability to recall the details of traumatic events.

This memorandum excerpts selected literature on strangulation in IPV, which can affect people of all genders and identities.

This memo offers social science literature to explain the link between IPV victimization and substance use/SUD for practitioners working with criminalized survivors.

The article promotes enhanced collaboration between Community Violence Intervention and anti-domestic violence efforts to improve family and community safety.

This newsletter highlights key full faith and credit resources for professionals.

This resource is a brief, practical "palm card" designed to provide essential information for securing child support when the co-parent is abusive.

This booklet describes how to use action research in Close to Home’s community organizing approach.

This booklet offers an overview of Close to Home’s philosophy and practice for domestic and sexual violence prevention.

This booklet offers lessons learned from using Close to Home’s community organizing approach.

TA Brief on complex advocacy for adult and minor trafficking survivors, covering trauma-informed practices, confidentiality, and contact considerations.

Fact sheet details challenges faced by gender-based violence survivors criminalized for self-defense actions or behaviors linked to their abuse.

Peer-reviewed data on domestic violence affecting AAPI communities, including statistics on community attitudes, health impacts, and homicide.

This document explores how FinTech and the so-called “gig economy” can be used by survivors to increase their safety and help them build their long-term safety plan.

This checklist includes guidance for advocates on facilitating the firearm discussion, removal during issuance of protection orders, enforcement, and transfer.

This document addresses the legal impediments along with other considerations that jurisdictions face when implementing firearm relinquishment orders.

Presents the findings of a series of focus groups and interviews with female victims of battering who had been convicted of domestic-violence-related crimes against their intimate partners.

Explores topics and considerations for facilitating a group with victims of battering in jail or prison.

Draws from resources and tools related to ending mass incarceration, centering racial justice in communities and institutions, and creating alternatives to the criminal legal system.

Conversations with anti-violence advocates on key themes and approaches for addressing mass incarceration, racial justice, and alternatives to the criminal legal system.

The infographic identifies types of violence across the lifespan, raises awareness of historical violence, and reduces victim blaming.

Report findings inform more equitable, effective civil protection orders for often-overlooked AAPI survivors.

This toolkit supports advocates in educating communities about the life-saving value of protection orders and improving the implementation of firearm prohibitions to protect survivors.

The project adapts the domestic violence Power and Control Wheel into culturally specific frameworks for Native Hawaiians, Samoans, and Chuukese people.

Research-based guides for family courts to make informed, abuse-aware custody decisions centered on lived experiences.

For practitioners working with criminalized survivors, it's helpful to be familiar with common reentry issues that people face when returning home from incarceration.

The SAFE tool assists survivors with evaluating if, when, how, and for what period they may want to request that an intimate partner who abused them be prohibited from use, possession, or ownership of firearm(s) and ammunition.

Designed to help survivors, advocates, attorneys, mediators, judges, and others talk about whether a case is appropriate for mediation and, if so, how mediation can be structured to account for the nature, context, and effects of IPV.

The SAFeR Practitioner's Manual help practitioners user the SAFeR method. SAFeR helps survivors–and attorneys and advocates who work with them–decide for themselves which options make the most sense under the circumstances.

Color-coded worksheets help pinpoint relevant IPV- related information for each element of SAFeR.

Sample Firearm Survivor Information Template for editing: "What You Need to Know About Firearms and Your Safety"

Resource to help advocacy programs ensure their programs are welcoming and accessible to justice-involved survivors.

Report analyzed 2000-2005 newspaper clippings on DV-related homicides in Asian families, finding 78% of victims were women and girls.

Examines the criminal legal system's impact on domestic violence, focusing on arrest, police response, and survivor safety.

Explores the role that domestic violence plays in a high percentage of parental kidnapping cases and the need to illuminate that role for a fair applications of justice.

Print/text version of a panel interview of formerly incarcerated women regarding their reentry experiences, insights, and suggestions for advocates and practitioners working with reentering survivors.

Tipsheet highlighting practical strategies for community advocates to help survivors successfully complete probation or parole supervision.

This toolkit includes a checklist and resources for assessing and assisting victims/survivors of domestic abuse who have a connection to the U.S. Armed Forces.

Guide for community-based advocates to understand and accurately explain complex concepts about trauma to domestic and sexual assault survivors.

Describes how community supervision can decrease safety and increase violence for reentering victims of battering by eliminating or limiting viable options.

Q&A guide helps advocate expert witnesses explain trauma and trauma responses in victims of battering and other forms of violence.

Manual with strategies for community-based advocates to provide effective support to incarcerated victims of battering, updated July 2025.