Workplace Policies and Supports
IFNC hosted an Academy on Workplace Policies and Supports to Prevent Violence and Promote Well-Being in the spring of 2021. The goal of the Academy was to build the capacity of community-based teams in order to help them effectively promote and advocate for workplace policies that reduce the risk for violence and increase protective factors for individuals and families. Below are resources that can help community-based organizations advance work in this area. You may also download a PDF of the resource list here.
Advocacy Resources
#KeepRising: MomsRising Advocacy and Organizing Tactics and Tips
This toolkit provides tips and tactics for advocating for policies that advance the wellbeing of women, mothers, and families. The organizing tactics listed can be used to target the Presidential Administration, Congress, the state legislature, the local city council, or other policymakers.
MomsRising Share Your Story: Do You Have Paid Sick Days?
Use this tool as an example of how to collect stories to send to policymakers.
MomsRising: Why is Paid Family Leave Important to You?
Use this tool as an example of how to collect stories to send to policymakers.
MomsRising: Letter to the Editor in Support of Paid Leave and Sick Days
Use this tool as an example of how to send pre-populated letters to editors of different newspapers.
Messaging Resources
Alliance for Strong Families and Communities: Reframing Childhood Adversity and Promoting Upstream Approaches
This policy brief and webinar provide recommendations for how to create messaging around childhood adversity. They suggest that messages about childhood adversity should be framed as a public issue, a preventable problem, and a solvable problem. You must register for the event linked here to access the policy brief and the webinar.
Moving toward prevention: A guide for reframing sexual violence
This messaging guide reviews best practices for framing sexual violence to inform the public about preventing sexual assault. It also highlights ways to communicate with the media, which plays an important role in educating the public.
Where we’re going and where we’ve been: Making the case for preventing sexual violence
This messaging guide provides recommendations for advocates on how to build effective messages that highlight the need for sexual violence prevention.
Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina: Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Social Media Tool Kit
This social media toolkit provides examples of messaging that can be used on social media to promote the Pregnant Worker Fairness Act.
Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina: Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Social Media Tool Kit
This social media toolkit provides examples of messaging that can be used on social media to promote paid family and medical leave insurance.
Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina: Recovery Rebate for Working Families Social media Tool Kit
This social media toolkit provides examples of messaging that can be used on social media to promote the recovery rebate.
Policy Resources
New America: New National Paid Leave Proposals Explained
Published on 4/28/2021, this blog post explains how different national proposals would affect paid leave. It compares the provisions in the American Families Plan, the Building an Economy for Families Act, and the FAMILY Act.
Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina: Economic Supports Can Prevent Child Abuse & Neglect in North Carolina
This report provides research on how different types of economic supports can prevent child abuse and neglect in NC. It also provides recommendations for increasing investments in economic supports.
Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina: Fact Sheet on Paid Leave in North Carolina
This one-pager provides evidence for how paid family & medical leave would prevent child maltreatment in NC. It includes the business & economic case for instating paid family leave, as well as the case for how it would help families.
National Partnership for Women & Families: Paid Leave Means a Stronger South Carolina
This fact sheet provides statistics about how paid family leave would benefit South Carolinians. Use this tool as an example of how to frame how a proposed policy would affect your state.
Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina: Fact Sheet on Safe Days and Kin Care
This one-pager explains what “safe days” and “kin care” are, and how these policies can prevent child maltreatment and domestic violence.
Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina: Fact Sheet on Pregnant Worker Fairness Act
This one-pager explains how the Pregnant Worker Fairness Act would ensure that pregnant women have pregnancy accommodations in the workplace.
Shared Risk and Protective Factors (SRPF) Resources
Prevention Institute: Economic Security and Safe Relationships
This brief describes how economic security and autonomy is a protective factor against intimate partner violence (IPV). It also provides a range of ways, known as the Spectrum of Prevention, to promote safe relationships through economic security. These tactics cover the different levels of the Socio-Ecological Framework, ranging from influencing policymakers to strengthening individual knowledge.
Duke Center for Child and Family Policy: Paid Family Leave in North Carolina
This study analyzes the costs and benefits of implementing paid family leave in NC. It concludes that a paid family and medical leave insurance program for all North Carolina workers would have a positive impact for North Carolina workers and families. It would improve employee and family health, as well as increase employee retention. Use this resource as evidence for the advantages of implementing paid family and medical leave.
PreventConnect: Implementing Paid Leave across California
Since the passage of the paid family leave in California in 2002, advocacy organizations have been organizing to make paid family leave more accessible in the state. This fact sheet describes how advocacy organizations built coalitions around how paid family leave can prevent multiple forms of violence.
FreeFrom.org
This website provides tools and resources to support survivors’ collective economic and community power. Its National Survivor Financial Security Policy Map And Scorecard rates how well each state supports survivors’ financial security. The organization also provides grants and support groups to survivors, as well as engaging in advocacy work to advance survivors’ financial security.
PreventViolenceNC.org
This website provides summaries of the research, strategies, and resources available to practitioners in NC to support communities in coordinated violence prevention and health promotion. It specifically focuses on employment stability and economic opportunity as a key strategy to prevent violence, and lists related research.
Trauma Informed Organizations NC
Trauma Informed Organizations NC (TIONC) aims to strengthen workplace supports through a trauma informed lens. The website houses tools and resources for organizations to analyze their policies and practices using a trauma-informed approach, as well as trainings to support trauma-informed organizational practice.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Resources
VetoViolence
This CDC website provides tools, trainings, and resources related to addressing shared risk and protective factors to prevent multiple forms of violence.
Connecting the Dots: An Overview of the Links Among Multiple Forms of Violence
The purpose of this brief is to share research on the connections between different forms of violence and describe how these connections affect communities. It outlines strategies for 1) preventing all types of violence from occurring in the first place, and 2) coordinating responses to violence in a way that recognizes these connections and considers the individual in the context of their home environment, neighborhood, and larger community.
CDC Technical Packages
The CDC has technical packages on a variety of violence prevention topics. The technical packages have three components: 1) The strategy for achieving the goal of preventing violence. 2) The approach that includes specific ways to advance the strategy through programs, policies, and practices, and 3) The evidence for each of the approaches in preventing violence or its associated risk factors.
See the “Strengthen Economic Supports for Families” section for evidence and policies related to workplace supports and economic opportunity as child abuse & neglect prevention.
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
See the “Strengthen Economic Supports for Families” and “Create Protective Environments” sections for evidence and policies related to workplace supports and economic opportunity as IPV prevention.
See the “Create Protective Environments” and “Provide Opportunities to Empower and Support Girls and Women” sections for evidence and policies related to workplace supports and economic opportunity as sexual violence prevention.
See the “Strengthen Economic Supports” section for evidence and policies related to workplace supports and economic opportunity as suicide prevention.
Preventing Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs)
See the “Strengthen Economic Supports for Families” section for evidence and policies related to workplace supports and economic opportunity as ACEs prevention.
This resource is not as focused on economic opportunity and workplace supports, but provides other strategies for preventing youth violence.