Spotlight / Spring and Summer 2021

Review the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-based Violence’s model of culturally-specific victim advocacy and resources on community-based participatory research.

Read recent survey results about Asian Americans’ experiences with discrimination and fears about increased threats and victimization.

Pew Research Center

Consider how factors like direct service hours worked, organizational trainings, and emotional support interact with the development of secondary traumatic stress in a nationwide survey of victim advocates.

Follow a brief history of victim services for domestic violence and how programs can incorporate more survivor input for intersectional, trauma-informed services.

Learn about the experiences of people in queer communities in Portland and their conceptions of collective trauma. [Contact the CVR Librarian for full text.]

Tune into Casa de Esperanza’s conversation about poly-victimization in rural LGBTQ communities and building more inclusive spaces.

photo by benjaflynn (Flickr)

Explore findings from the Victim Rights Law Center’s focus groups and listening sessions about reaching more LGBTQ+ survivors and improving access to services.

The Gender Spectrum Collection

Listen to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s podcast episode with FORGE about how sexual assault impacts transgender men.

The Gender Spectrum Collection

Check out the National Center on Elder Abuse’s new cultural issues fact sheets for working with older adults from diverse communities.

Read this systematic review to prepare for CVR’s June Evidence Hour: Do interventions to prevent or stop abuse and neglect among older adults work? [Contact the CVR Librarian for full-text access.]

Explore homicide co-victims’ accounts of secondary victimization with the court system. [Contact the CVR Librarian for full-text.]

Read about families’ perceptions of law enforcement and their handling of cold case homicide cases. [Contact the CVR Librarian for full text.]

Review research on alternative interventions to reduce firearm homicides that do not depend on gun laws or police.

photo by La Citta Vita (Flickr)

Consider ways that people who have lost a loved one to homicide make sense of their experiences. [Contact the CVR Librarian for full-text access]

Read about barriers to helping child abuse victims during the COVID-19 pandemic and innovative strategies to address those barriers from child advocacy professionals.

Focus on how LGBTQ+ Asian American and Pacific Islander students have experienced discrimination and victimization in school and how they cope.

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