This issue brief identifies the correlation of racial trauma and trauma caused in family violence. The brief covers issues of structurally embedded inequalities, how individual actions cause racial trauma, and racial trauma’s impact on communities of color. Beyond the research, the brief features approaches taken in Virginia that individuals, communities, organizations, and service professionals could adopt to prevent and mitigate race-based traumatic stress.

This Indian Health Service grant announcement provides 501(c)(3) organizations an opportunity to apply for funding to support a variety of services to improve the healthcare of the American Indian/Alaska Native community through outreach and education efforts. Eligible organizations include those with expertise in representing Tribal governments and administering national health policy and health programs, including work in substance abuse and suicide prevention, domestic violence prevention, HIV/AIDS outreach and education, and diabetes work. The application closing date is June 29, 2020.

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation research-to-practice brief covers background information on the consequences of domestic violence on families and children and illustrates how prevention and intervention efforts on domestic violence are framed within fatherhood programs. The brief also identifies various promising practices in these programs to support both the prevention of domestic violence and interventions when incidences have already been perpetrated. The brief was developed through the Preventing and Addressing Intimate Violence when Engaging Dads (PAIVED) study.

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report assesses services offered by the National Domestic Violence Hotline and loveisrespect (a help line targeting young people). The report identifies immediate outcomes for individuals who contacted these organizations and then two weeks after the initial contact. The report’s findings can be used to support efforts for monitoring and improving services for those affected by domestic violence and intimate partner violence.

The National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics is hosting a series of virtual workshops that address research on topics of interest to human service professionals throughout the summer. Future workshops will cover Machine Learning in Human Services Contexts, Cross-System Collaboration to Serve Justice-Involved Clients, and the Family First Prevention Services Act. Recordings of previously held workshops on TANF Responses to COVID-19 and Domestic Violence during COVID-19 are available.

This issue brief from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) highlights key points addressing intimate partner violence and child abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic, where staying at home may not be safe for those who have previously experienced mistreatment or where current economic conditions might spark mistreatment that would not have otherwise existed. The brief also provides links to resources from the Addiction Technology Transfer Center, the National Hispanic and Latino Addiction Technology Transfer Center, and SAMHSA’s partner, the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health.

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report reviews current Responsible Fatherhood (RF) program approaches undertaken to prevent and tackle intimate partner violence (IPV) and domestic violence. The report illustrates the programs’ strengths and gaps in their services and referrals and promising practices that may improve service provision to address IPV. There is also discussion about new directions for research in IPV prevention, given the success, challenges, and barriers in service delivery that RF programs experience.

This fact sheet from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network summarizes the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and child trauma. It also identifies policy and programmatic recommendations on how to respond to the needs of IPV survivors and their dependent children.

This National Coalition Against Domestic Violence blogpost identifies the reasons why victims of domestic violence do not escape abusive relationships and the barriers they face. It also presents a bullet point list of the societal impediments to addressing domestic violence and violent relationships.

This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report follows up the 2014 CDC Beginning the Dialogue report. The current report illustrates how the field has identified primary prevention and implemented the Social Ecological Model, a mapping of the multiple risk factors contributing to sexual and intimate partner violence at individual, relationship, community, and societal levels. The report also distinguishes between community-level and community-based intimate partner violence prevention approaches. It highlights what is needed to shift prevention efforts toward cross-sector and community-specific partnerships and concludes by highlighting the direction toward which prevention efforts are moving.