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senior researcher at Urban Institute, passionate about helping survivors & older adults, former ombudsman in southern CA, mom to 14 year-old gamer | tweets=own
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Introducing Urban's Office of Race and Equity Research: urbn.is/3xsU5KN
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In case you missed it…
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Performing Anti-racism: Universities Respond to Anti-Black Violence by @IsharaCC & @HMcCoySW is now available! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11
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Learn from this #EvidenceHour webinar & related resources about domestic violence survivor needs and their approaches to staying safe during pandemic lockdowns and reduced access to services in Texas. victimresearch.org/library/the-ev
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Urban's Justice Policy Center is looking to hire at the senior research level - please pass to your networks! urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca
Looking forward to partnering with local organizations to use data and technology to advance racial equity in the justice system. Check out the RFP and more information here: urbn.is/3GeDhsV
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Thread: Proud to announce the launch of another RFP to join the Catalyst Grant Program, our collaboration with @Microsoft’s Justice Reform Initiative.
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How do we persuade elders who experience abuse to seek help? “These two examples show the barriers that older adults [particularly from marginalized communities] face in reporting abuse and seeking help.” buff.ly/3g7uxJX via
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New report is the 1st federally funded, multisite, mixed-methods evaluation to assess the impact of ECM human trafficking task forces on the investigation & prosecution of trafficking crimes and on identifying & assisting survivors.
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On our Jan. 5 #EvidenceHour, we’re discussing the #openaccess article by researchers in : “Advances in measurement: A scoping review of prior human trafficking prevalence studies...” Read the article & register 👉bit.ly/31avoFP
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How can we improve research about human trafficking survivors? Our next #EvidenceHour is on January 5 at 1pm ET: “Leveraging Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships to Improve Human Trafficking Prevalence Studies” w/ & Community Against Sexual Harm register.gotowebinar.com/register/11857
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Catch up on previous episodes of #EvidenceHour! With our guest experts, we discussed #SystematicReviews on child abuse & housing stress, help-seeking w/ teen dating violence & intimate partner violence, reducing elder abuse, & more. Browse them all here: victimresearch.org/tag/evidence-h
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Last chance to review our Fall 2021 Spotlight on recent research related to recent awareness months. Take some time for a professional development break: victimresearch.org/spotlights/fal (Winter 2021 Spotlight coming soon!)
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It's here! The NCVS is the largest collection of data on criminal victimization in the U.S.. Create custom graphs on multi-year trends or compare different years, by crime type or try the “Quick Graphics” for charts like Victim Service Use: ncvs.bjs.ojp.gov/Home
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Coming soon! The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Dashboard (N-DASH). #BJSstats #NCVS #victimization #datavisualization #NDASH #DataViz
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🚨 We're hiring 2 directors to support our new Office of Race & Equity Research: one to lead federal equity initiatives (urbn.is/3CtSXX3) & another to lead racial equity analytics (urbn.is/3tTDlca). Please help us spread the word! 🚨
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On the last day of National Hispanic Heritage Month, think about the Latinx teens in your community: who do they ask for help w/ partner abuse? Learn from the research of Dr.
Padilla-Medina & Dr. Vélez-Grau victimresearch.org/library/the-ev #1Thing
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A team of researchers from & released a series of practitioner-oriented products summarizing findings & recs on implementation of the SAFE Protocol-- a guide that assists jurisdictions w/ response to sexual assault
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📢Results from National Survey of Victim Service Providers (NSVSP)! Thread with some high-level results:
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Just released: Services for Crime Victims, 2019. bjs.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/ #BJSstats
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Today is the International Day for Older Persons. Here's what we know about #aging in the U.S.
1. Older adults are more independent than 10 years ago, aided by assistive devices such as bath seats and walkers.
#UNIDOP2021 #NHATS
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Great new brief by colleagues citing tech challenges for Older Americans, but also: Those with "basic digital skills... have, on average, higher numeracy and literacy skills than younger Americans, underscoring... older workers’ assets."
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Key components of sustaining a community-based response to survivors of sexual assault & improving services to be inclusive of all survivors urbn.is/3yi2P4p New from &
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Nearly 20 years ago while in grad school, I completed 150 long and personal interviews with incarcerated women, and today I completed my 150th such interview with community-dwelling older adults. Incredibly invaluable experiences I will carry forever!
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Coming up on 10/1, The United Nations International Day of Older Persons 2021 theme “Digital Equity for All Ages, focusing on urgent need for "access and meaningful participation in the digital world by older persons." un.org/development/de
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This National Hispanic Heritage Month, I'm proud of colleagues who've done great work to help the Latinx community urban.org/features/latin
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Have you seen our #Research2Practice Spotlight? Find resources related to National Hispanic Heritage Month, like domestic violence organizations’ Latinx cultural competency & how Latina & Latino teens seek help with dating violence victimresearch.org/research/spotl
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Incredible institute starting ⭐NOW⭐ It's #ActualizingJustice - how participatory research can address gender-based violence. Kudos to #LGBTQInstitute 4 "this dream among friends" () nrcdv.org/training/aji
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Tomorrow , Sarah Leat, & Christina Cicconi will discuss results from a systematic review about what influences IPV survivors to access formal services. Join us! register.gotowebinar.com/register/58763 #EvidenceHour
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September is #RecoveryMonth and our Fall Spotlight includes research about victims dealing with trauma & substance use: victimresearch.org/spotlight Recovery is for Everyone!
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Our Fall 2021 Spotlight is live today, with research-based resources to help you plan #outreach & public awareness campaigns related to #victimservices. Make some time today for professional development #reading: victimresearch.org/research/spotl
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Researchers must approach their work with an understanding of how racist policies & implicit biases interact within and throughout different aspects of the criminal legal system, write ’s & .
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What is a systematic review and how can services to victims be improved by it? Check out the Center for Victim Research webinar series
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The Center for Victim Research has an incredible collection of articles & reports from reputable sources on crime and victimization. To learn more & explore their collection, check out: victimresearch.org/library #VictimAdvocates #VictimServices #SupportSurvivors
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Key components of sustaining a community-based response to survivors of sexual assault & improving services to be inclusive of all survivors urbn.is/3yi2P4p New from &
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"Caring for sexual assault victims who come to health care settings is critical, added, since so few come forward. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that 34% of rapes were reported to police in 2019." via for yhoo.it/3ileZ71
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Looking for information from reputable sources on crime or victimization? Visit our #free #openaccess library at victimresearch.org/library to access our collection or #AskALibrarian. #library #researchtips
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Check out these staggering numbers in a new report by my former colleagues at on the costs of workplace sexual harassment!
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The costs of sexual harassment don’t instantly end after they’ve happened. We released a new report w/ @TIMESUPNOW that’s the first-ever attempt to monetize the *lifetime* financial costs of workplace sexual harassment to individual women. Read it today: iwpr.org/iwpr-publicati.
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