CENTERING LIVED EXPERTISE: CO-DESIGNING WITH SURVIVORS
Co-design is a process that actively involves all stakeholders – survivors, children, advocates, administrators, policymakers – to ensure that...
Designing & Innovating Solutions
Explore strategies to design effective and culturally relevant programs and interventions that create the desired impacts and result in positive outcomes for families impacted by DV. Utilizing human centered design processes can help to ensure your strategies match the real needs of survivors and can lead to better outcomes. Programs that are able to articulate the problem they are trying to solve and have a clear theory of change are better positioned to reach their desired impact.
Co-design is a process that actively involves all stakeholders – survivors, children, advocates, administrators, policymakers – to ensure that...
Guiding principles inform and guide decisions and choices. They are needed to provide clear guideposts, allow for different—but not...
It has been repeatedly documented that mandated reporters fail to recognize or consider the impact of poverty, systemic racism,...
It is important that your mission and organizational values are current, accurate, and reflective of the tireless work you...
Intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking are on the rise during COVID-19. Shelter in place regulations and...
A logic model is a brief (usually one-page) visual representation of how your program works.
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Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children and their families while repairing and preventing harms caused by existing systems...
In order to adequately support healing and resiliency within families involved in these programs (and staff), and to break...
Creating a theory of change can be a helpful tool in developing programs or solutions to address complex problems...
Research suggests that many domestic violence survivors delay or do not seek shelter from abusive partners because they are...
Domestic violence (DV) protective factors are individual and relational attributes, as well as environmental and social conditions, that lessen...
Programs should strive to create spaces that are comfortable and feel safe for both adult and child survivors. For...
The manual presents program guidelines for consideration to improve the services for children exposed to domestic violence and explores...