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LGBT DV: Beyond the Wheel - Tactics of Abuse
This document, developed and produced by The NW Network of Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian, and Gay Survivors of Abuse, takes a deeper look beyond the power and control wheel to dig deeper into tactics of abuse often used against people within the LGBTQ community.
LGBTQ Survivor Handbook
This booklet was created by the Virginia Anti-Violence Project and is designed to help LGBTQ people who are experiencing/have experienced violence in their lives and/or their support people to better understand what is happening and how it impacts LGBTQ people. This booklet also offers resources and options for survivors.
Liberatory Practices for Accountability Across the Social Ecological Model
What does accountability look like without punishment, isolation, and shaming?
What are the shifts we can make in ourselves, our relationships, communities, and as a society to move from punishment to true accountability, which builds connection and encourages growth?
This infographic, created for the Action Alliance webinar series, “Reimagining Our Legacy: Transforming from Criminalization to Liberation”, seeks to offer a few ways in which we can practice methods of accountability that liberate us from punishment and harm and move us toward healing and connection.
Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence
Illustration describing the violence that may happen throughout the lives of Asian and Pacific Islander women during the life stages of infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, adulthood, and later life. Included are translated versions of the Lifetime Spiral in Chinese, Farsi, Korean, Punjabi, Tagalog and Vietnamese. All translated versions have the English version on the reverse page.
Additional resources can be found at https://www.api-gbv.org/about-gbv/our-analysis/lifetime-spiral/.
Maternal Mortality Review – Each Death Matters
Virginia’s multidisciplinary Maternal Mortality Review Team reviewed nearly 400 cases of pregnancy-associated death occurring between 1999 and 2007. This brief article was published by the National Women's Health Network and authored by Victoria M. Kavanaugh, RN, PhD, Maternal Mortality Review Team Coordinator with the Virginia Department of Health, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In the article, Dr. Kavanaugh summaries Virginia data and emphasizes the need for maternal mortality reviews as a means to develop recommendations for interventions and prevention strategies to prevent future deaths. These recommendations apply to a wide array of fields, including prenatal health care, social work, psychiatry, emergency care, dietary services, health care, and advocacy.
