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Technical Assistance Resources BY and FOR
Specific Communities
National Association of Asian & Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence
NAPIESV was founded in 2011 by Emma Catague, Imelda Buncab, Sopheak Tek, Nina Jusuf, and Mira Yusef. The mission of NAPIESV is to end sexual violence in Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities and build healthy communities through transformative justice and social change. It addresses the intersections of sexual violence with gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, ability, and age and explores their connections to community accountability. The organization also examines the role of communities in perpetuating violence and explores notions of individual and community healing.
Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault
Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault supports leadership, policy advocacy and provides training and technical assistance for Communities of Color organizations to support and enhance their capacity to provide culturally specific prevention and intervention strategies addressing sexual assault while raising the consciousness, outrage, and accountability within their communities regarding violence against women.
Minnesota Indian Women & Sexual Assault Coalition
MIWSAC’s mission:
Through unity we will strengthen our voices and build resources to create awareness and eliminate sexual violence against Indian women and children. We will vigorously apply our efforts toward influencing social change and reclaim our traditional values that honor the sovereignty of Indian women and children.
National LGBTQ Institute on Intimate Partner Violence
The National LGBTQ Institute provides foundational and advanced training focused capacity-building to serve LGBTQ survivors. Their technical assistance and on-line learning combine self-directed learning, live-streamed webinars, and online discussion with the Institute staff, experts in the field, and each other. The site also hosts a number of Resources for LGBTQ survivors.
Links and Resources
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
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Revisioning the Continuum of Sexual Violence
Conceptualized by Lydia Guy (Ortiz) and first released in Partners for Social Change newsletter (WCSAP. 2006). The Spiral of Oppression reimagined the concept of a continuum of violence illustrating that despite the form of violence, oppression is the tie that binds.
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Synergies 2009
Strategies for enhancing the capacity of organizations, communities, and individuals to prevent sexual violence in Washington State.
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Building a Roadmap for Diversity & Anti-Oppression Work in Your Coalition
by Mary Keefe, Executive Director, Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. 2007
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Protocols for Culturally Responsive Organizations
Authored by Ann Curry-Stevens, Marie-Elena Reyes & Coalition of Communities of Color. Published by Center to Advance Racial Equity, Portland State University, 2014.
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Land Acknowledgment Guide
Developed by: Felicia Garcia (Chumash), M.A. Museum Studies, New York University, 2018.
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Oppression & Sexual Violence
Published by the Nations Sexual Violence Resource Center in 2020.
This info graph outlines how to communicate effectively about how sexual violence is inextricably tied to oppression.
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NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION Guidance to Aspiring Allies
By Lynn Peters, Jane Ralph and Laurie Holmes, WOCN Aspiring Ally Consultants
September 2013
The origination and context of the term aspiring ally has its roots in the Women of Color Network’s National Call to Action (NCTA) National Ally Statement1 in its application in the movement to end domestic and sexual violence.