Victim Services Provider

  • Nothing About Us Without Us — Centering the Movement Around Self-Advocates

    Nothing about us without us is a common phrase used in the disability rights movement to mean nothing should be created for a community without the meaningful participation of that …
  • Language Access Planning for Deaf People: A Toolkit

    Research on victimization within the Deaf community suggests that Deaf individuals living in the United States have higher rates of domestic and sexual victimization than their hearing counterparts. Despite these …
  • Nothing About Us Without Us: Centering the Movement Around Self-Advocates

    Nothing about us without us is a common phrase used in the disability rights movement to mean nothing should be created for a community without the meaningful participation of that …
  • Supporting Black Deaf Survivors

    Black deaf survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence often have to navigate a web of barriers to accessing healing services: programs designed to respond to domestic and sexual violence, for …
  • Centering Survivors with Disabilities in Your Organizational Policies

    When survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors engage with your victim service organization or disability program, they are necessarily engaging with the policies that guide the delivery of your services. …
  • Training Slides “Service Animals, Assistance Animals, and Emotional Support Animals”

    Bridging South Dakota Training to: Learn the about “service animals, assistance animals and emotional support animals.” Learn what questions we “can” and “cannot” ask. Learn how to prepare for the …
  • Providing Accessible and Effective Services to Survivors of Sexual Assault with Disabilities

    April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and in support of survivors everywhere, we dedicated this month’s End Abuse of People with Disabilities webinar to lifting up promising practices for serving survivors …
  • Words Matter: Exploring Identity and Language for Survivors with Disabilities

    In the disability community, where there is a history of erasure, exploitation, and misunderstanding, language choices we make when talking about people with disabilities (also referred to as disabled people) …
  • Innovations at the Intersection: Centering Survivors with Disabilities in the Movement

    Survivors with disabilities are experts in their own lived experiences, so they should guide our work to ensure services are accessible and responsive to their needs. To meaningfully work with survivors with …
  • Just Ask: A Toolkit to Help Advocates Meet the Needs of Crime Victims with Disabilities

    People with disabilities and Deaf people experience violent crime at three times the rate of people without disabilities, yet healing services and the legal system are often not accessible to …