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Ableism and Violence: A Plain Language Guide: This resource was created to be a plain language guide to ableism and the ways that ableism contributes to violence against people with disabilities. It is designed to help self-advocates understand ableism and its connection to violence against people with disabilities.
Abuse of People with Disabilities: A Silent Epidemic (YouTube): Abuse of People with Disabilities: A Silent Epidemic is a public service video produced by the Board Resource Center (www.brcenter.org) to encourage people with disabilities to speak up about abuse. Molly Kennedy and Kecia Weller are well known peer advocates in California who are taking a stand to stop abuse. Please join them by sharing the video with your network.
Coercion Related to Mental Health and Substance Use in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence: A Toolkit: This toolkit provides trauma-informed guidance on integrating questions about mental health and substance use coercion into routine mental health and substance use histories and into in-depth intimate partner violence (IPV) assessments in primary care and behavioral health settings.
Crime Against Persons With Disabilities, 2009-2014 – Statistical Tables – Bureau of Justice Statistics: Presents estimates of nonfatal violent crime (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault) against persons age 12 or older with disabilities.
Crime Against Persons With Disabilities, 2009-2015 – Statistical Tables – Bureau of Justice Statistics: Presents estimates of nonfatal violent crime (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault) against persons age 12 or older with disabilities.
Disability Justice Resource Center (DJRC): The DJRC has been created to help members of the legal community better understand the complex issues related to justice for people with disabilities, particularly people with developmental disabilities. It also is designed to help the legal community identify and eliminate biases against people with disabilities. An online resource for legal professionals, continuing legal education courses, law schools, students and otdedicated to protecting the rights of people with developmental disabilities.
End Abuse of People with Disabilities Website: This website is managed by the Center on Victimization and Safety (CVS) at the Vera Institute of Justice. As awareness about the rates of violence against people with disabilities and Deaf people grows, so does the need to connect the practitioners, organizations, government agencies, communities, and individuals that make up the growing movement to end abuse of people with disabilities and Deaf people. This website is a place to connect with others engaged in this work, to access the latest resources and research from the field, and to advance the thinking around intervention and prevention.
Explore Access: Access to Victim Services: People who are deaf, blind, who use wheelchairs and other mobility devices, people with intellectual disabilities, chronic illnesses, dyslexia, and speech-related conditions all share the common experience of being disabled by the design and perspectives of society. When we see disability in this way, we recognize that, as people who design and deliver services and processes, we can be a part of the problem of exclusion or a part of the solution of inclusion. We hope that this toolkit will provide you with the resources you need to create more inclusive victim advocacy services.
Funding Streams for Victim Services (PDF): This handout provides information about the various funding streams that support victim service organizations.
National Center on Criminal Justice and Disability:NCCJD will serve as a national clearinghouse for information and training on the topic of people with I/DD as victims, witnesses and suspects or offenders of crime.
National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health -Trauma-Informed Legal Advocacy (TILA) Project: The Trauma-Informed Legal Advocacy (TILA) Project offers guidance on applying trauma-informed principles to working with survivors of domestic violence in the context of legal proceedings. Building on the accessibility, culturally relevant, domestic violence- and trauma-informed (ACDVTI) framework developed by NCDVTMH, the TILA Project offers strategies that make these principles relevant to the work of legal advocates as well as lawyers who represent survivors.
Policy and Advocacy in Action Podcast – Episode 27 (YouTube): This podcast, entitled Dismantling Racism and Ableism – Centering the Margins, is sponsored by the National Center on Domestic Violence and features an interview with Renee Lopez, a disability rights’ activist about the importance of centering the voices of people of color with disabilities in the work for social justice and collective liberation.
Supporting survivors of sexual assault: Here’s 10 things that helped me: Self-advocate and survivor James Meadours explains the 10 things that helped him heal after being sexually assaulted.
Survivors of Sexual Trauma Reveal an Important Truth (YouTube): Referenced by James Meadours in the Webinar on Addressing Sexual Assault Against People with Disabilities. 1in6 is a national nonprofit organization supporting the estimated 1 in 6 men who have experienced sexual abuse or assault. At 1in6, we believe that the tens of millions of male survivors who have had such experiences deserve to live whole, meaningful lives, but we know that isn’t always easy. Entrenched myths about masculinity, the stigma and silence around the issue, and a lack of male-specific services are just some of the barriers men face to seeking help and addressing emotional wounds in a healthy way.
Training and Collaboration Toolkit -Serving Sexual Violence Victims with Disabilities: This toolkit offers guidance for service providers on working collaboratively to integrate accessible services for sexual violence victims with disabilities into the existing social service delivery system. The purpose is to provide the information and resources needed to begin the process of collaboration and cross-training among relevant agencies. The toolkit’s focus is on adult and adolescent victims with disabilities.
Vera Institute of Justice – Measuring Capacity to Serve Survivors with Disabilities: The Vera Institute of Justice’s Center on Victimization and Safety developed a practical performance indicator tool to meet the growing need for straightforward and cost-effective ways for disability organizations, domestic violence programs, rape crisis centers, and programs that address domestic and sexual violence to track their progress in serving survivors of domestic and sexual violence who have disabilities.
Webinar on Addressing Sexual Assault Against People with Disabilities The webinar by the Administration for Community Living will highlight the prevalence of sexual assault in the disability community. It will focus on the perspectives of sexual assault survivors with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) who will discuss their experiences, the barriers they encountered when seeking support, and the recommendations to improve access to care and justice. The target audience is broad and includes organizations serving people with I/DD, organizations serving survivors of sexual violence, and victim advocates and prevention specialists, plus partners and grantees from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other government agencies.