This joint report of The National Domestic Violence Hotline, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, and the National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities at Casa de Esperanza overviews a survey of 289 domestic violence survivors who contacted the hotline in 2017. The survey covered experiences of economic instability in 2017, the importance of benefits, applying for benefits and barriers to applying, screening and disclosure of abuse, and loss of benefits. The report noted that poverty and domestic violence are interconnected, and strengthening the safety net is crucial to helping survivors and their families reach economic stability, well-being, and safety. (See also Resources on "intimate partner violence" in the Resource Library)

In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Office of Family Assistance hosted a webinar on October 28, 2020. A subject matter expert and a TANF program practitioner shared insights and recommendations for leveraging TANF to provide support to intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors during COVID-19 and beyond. In this webinar, speakers highlighted a variety of IPV topics, including the four types of behavior associated with IPV. Speakers answered audience questions to assist other state and tribal programs in developing and improving their own TANF responses to COVID-19 and IPV.

(See also Resources on "domestic violence" in the Resource Library)

This webpage from the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence contains online training, webinar videos, and radio podcasts discussing different issues and prevention strategies related to domestic violence. The webinars and radio podcasts focus on policy and advocacy, transformation stories, services for survivors, and youth engagement in violence prevention and social change.

(See also Resources on "intimate partner violence" in the Resource Library)

This webpage from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is comprised of fast facts, risk and protective factors, prevention strategies, and resources related to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Teen Dating Violence. There is also a technical package that contains evidence-based programs, policies, practices, and strategies focused on preventing IPV and its consequences on individuals across the lifespan. The strategies include teaching healthy relationship skills, engaging influential adults and peers, disrupting the pathway for IPV, creating protective environments, strengthening families’ economic support, and supporting survivors to lessen harm and increase safety.

(See also Resources on "domestic violence" in the Resource Library)

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women webpage provides resources for strengthening services to individuals encountering domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Included is background information on different types of violence and national hotline numbers to address them, as well as a directory with contact information for domestic violence prevention networks and coalitions for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

(See also Resources on "intimate violence" in the Resource Library)

This web conference was hosted by PreventConnect, a national project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA) in collaboration with the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. The web conference discussed strengthening economic supports and security for women and families to prevent sexual and intimate partner violence, as well as adverse effects resulting from this violence. The presenters explained the connection between strengthening economic supports and preventing multiple forms of violence and highlighted the importance of explaining this connection to stakeholders.

This article published in the New England Journal of Medicine discusses how the stay-at-home orders placed during the COVID-19 pandemic trapped victims with their abusers, which caused advocates to become concerned about a potential increase in intimate partner violence (IPV). The article notes how victims not being able to safely connect to services has led to a decrease in calls to domestic violence hotlines, as opposed to an anticipated increase. The article also discusses barriers to reporting IPV during the pandemic, and steps that can be taken to facilitate more equitable access to services as the pandemic continues.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention published a technical package based on evidence-based strategies and approaches to help communities and states focus on prevention activities and provide victim-centered services to survivors and their families. The package features a multi-level, multi-sector approach to supporting survivors, which incorporates social services, justice, housing, advocates, community organizations, and the health care sector working collaboratively to support children, youth, and families. Teaching healthy relationship skills and effective parenting, strengthening economic supports for families, creating protective environments, and civil legal protections are prevention strategies addressed in this technical package.

The National Indigenous Women's Resource Center will host this webinar on October 21, 2020 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET. The webinar will feature a discussion of the causes of domestic violence in Indigenous communities. The goal of the webinar is to explain the dynamics of intimate partner violence (IPV) from a survivor's perspective and to highlight the importance of cultural practices in building capacity to provide respectful and effective advocacy with those surviving IPV and other types of domestic violence.

This report is part of the Responding to Intimate Violence in Relationship Programs (RIViR) study to evaluate approaches for assessing teen dating violence. The report covers how to accurately identify youth in Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) programs who are experiencing teen dating violence (TDV) so they can be referred for additional services. The report also examines how youth and TDV program staff perceive tools to assess TDV and strategies to implement these tools. The report compared two HMRE programs—More Than Conquerors, Inc. of Conyers, Georgia and Youth and Family Services of Rapid City, South Dakota.