Original Statement of Services Provided by Family Violence Revention and Services Act

NRCDV knows that policy and systems advocacy is essential in addressing and preventing domestic violence and intersecting issues.

NRCDV focuses on economic and family unit policy, and engages in robust analysis, authoritative advocacy, technical aid and training, instruction, and targeted resource development to ameliorate systemic responses to domestic violence at the federal, state, and local levels. Through partnerships and meaningful collaborations, we strive to integrate an intersectional analysis that names contextual considerations and complex structural and systemic barriers that disproportionately impact communities of colour, Tribal communities, and other marginalized and underserved communities.

NRCDV's policy opinion:

• WE COMMIT to beingness expansive in our policy thinking, efforts, and focus on anti-violence work within the larger context of social justice and progressive world-building.
• WE COMMIT to co-creating policy solutions with survivors and communities nigh impacted past gender-based violence and sexual violence, and to address the root causes.
• We COMMIT to advance policy solutions that volition make meaningful change for Black and dark-brown communities, trans and non-binary survivors, survivors with disabilities, immigrant survivors, and those nigh traumatized and harmed by carceral systems and responses.

NRCDV'due south policy priorities:

• Edifice and supporting the capacity of survivorsto engage in policy and systems-level advancement.
• Promoting survivor centered, equitable, and just policies, such as those that heart safety, well-being, autonomy, humanity, and inclusivity across race, course, culture, power, immigration status and identity;
• Ensuring increased economic security for survivors, their families, and communities through avenues such as public do good programs, revenue enhancement credits for depression-income families, affordable healthcare, paid get out, equal pay, workplace protections, education and task training, and enhancement of asset and wealth building opportunities;
• Promoting family and community centered policies that are responsive to the needs and closely aligned with the desired approaches named past domestic violence survivors, particularly survivors across Black, Indigenous, People of Color, immigrant, and refugee communities, survivors with disabilities, deaf survivors, and low-income survivors, including policies focused on prevention, healing and restoration for survivors and those who take acquired harm;
• Increasing access to a broad range of affordable housing options for survivors, including but non limited to non-besiege shelter, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, and abode ownership, likewise as the services and supports needed for safe and stable housing;
• Building the chapters of advocates at the land and local levels through training, technical assist and resource sharing to engage in policy and systems-level advocacy.
  

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Fundamental Policy-Related Special Collections and Resources

Advocacy Resources

Legislative and policy advocacy has long played an important role in the motion to cease gender-based violence, often as a critical component of the grassroots activism of survivors, advocates, and other people committed to mobilizing to terminate gender-based violence. In order to have widespread touch and improve the laws, policies and systems that affect victims of gender-based violence, engaging in advancement with legislators and policymakers at the local, state, and national level is essential.

Federal Legislation

NRCDV, along with other national organizations and partners, provides ongoing back up, teaching, and technical assistance around the iii cornerstone federal policies related to domestic and sexual violence: the Family unit Violence and Prevention Services Human action (FVPSA), the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA).

Family unit Violence and Prevention Services Act (FVPSA)

For over xxx years, FVPSA has supported community-driven solutions to domestic violence, domestic and dating violence prevention education, and a network of programs and services to respond to domestic violence beyond the country, territories and tribal communities. FVPSA provides cadre funding for more than 1,600 domestic violence shelters and 1,100 non-residential service sites, providing both a condom haven and an assortment of supportive services to intervene in and foreclose abuse. FVPSA besides supports the 56 country and territorial domestic violence coalitions, too as the Domestic Violence Resources Network , a group of national resource centers that work collaboratively to inform and strengthen domestic violence intervention and prevention efforts at the individual, community, and societal levels.

Read NRCDV's Statement on FVPSA:NRCDV Celebrates Business firm Passage of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Improvement Act of 2021

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Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)

VAWA creates and supports comprehensive responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking, including providing federal resource to back up coordinated customs approaches. Other key components of VAWA include funding for culturally- and linguistically specific services, protections for immigrant victims, landmark housing protections for survivors, legal assistance programs, support for victims on college campuses, and prevention initiatives. The nigh recent reauthorization of VAWA in 2013 included celebrated provisions recognizing tribes' inherent sovereignty and granting them jurisdiction to prosecute domestic violence on Tribal land, equally well equally non-discrimination provisions that protects access to services for LGBTQ victims.

Read NRCDV's Statement on VAWA:NRCDV Prioritizes Survivor Safety & Pick every bit VAWA 2021 Passes Firm

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Victims of Crime Act (VOCA)

VOCA funding supports services to 4 million victims of all types of offense each year, through 4,400 straight service agencies such as domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, and child abuse programs. VOCA state assistance grants provide funding for crunch intervention, counseling, housing services and support, transportation, services for elder victims and victims with disabilities, volunteer coordinators, translation services, needs assessments, and other support services that help victims deal with the trauma and backwash of a crime.

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