Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Gender-Based Violence, News and Events, Uncategorized
October 9, 2024 Oakland, CA — Today the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV) celebrates 40 years since the passage of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA). Administered by the Office of Family Violence Prevention and...
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Elder Abuse, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, New, News and Events, Our Analysis, Research and Data, Uncategorized
In partnership with the National Health Resource Center on DV, Futures Without Violence, API-GBV released this set of five case scenarios. Each case scenario includes reflection questions and discussion points on how to support an elder and their family, and they...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, Language Plan, Interpretation, and Translation, New, News and Events, Pacific Islanders
This project aimed to translate and develop educational resources and tools on GBV in indigenous Pasifika languages. The project aims to empower individuals, families, community-based and system responders, allied professionals, and the community-at-large with...
Domestic Violence, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, Homicide, Lifecourse Violence and Help Seeking, News and Events, Research and Data, Updated
The 2020 updated and expanded Facts and Stats Report contains new statistics on domestic violence, community attitudes, health and mental health impacts, help-seeking behavior, domestic violence related homicide, and more. The Facts & Stats Report, consistently...
Domestic Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Pacific Islanders
A compilation of statistics on domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and help-seeking in Pacific Islander communities. Related Resources Defining an Effective Response to DVSA in American Samoa By American Samoa Alliance Against Domestic & Sexual...
Gender-Based Violence, Trafficking, Trauma-Informed Care
Building from what trafficking survivors have taught us, this webinar discusses how to identify survivors, how past experience of help-seeking can influence current attempts, and the importance of trauma-informed care at different points of contact with survivors such...
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...
Trafficking, Trauma-Informed Care
This TA Brief addresses the complexity of advocacy for adult and minor survivors of trafficking. Topics include: Definitions Analysis/Root Causes Trauma-Informed Advocacy, Endangerment & Confidentiality Considerations & Recommendations at Points of Contact...
Gender-Based Violence, Trafficking, Trauma-Informed Care
a. Advocacy & Services for Trafficking Survivors, 2014: A comprehensive overview of sex and labor trafficking – actions/means/purposes, data, root causes, traumas and oppressions, help-seeking, legal remedies, cross-systems trauma-informed collaboration. b....
Trafficking, Trauma-Informed Care
This webinar lays the foundation for understanding the types of domestic trafficking, the traumatic impacts of victimization, and operationalizing trauma-informed responses within new and existing advocacy structures and partnerships. Types of Domestic Trafficking:...
