Domestic Violence Survivors

Helping Domestic Violence Survivors Build Assets

Financial independence is often a pathway out of an abusive relationship.  For those who wish to or who have left their abusers, many  survivors are faced with considerable debt, poor credit, no credit history, lack of savings, and other financial hardships—often directly due to economic abuse they have experienced.  Over the past several years domestic violence agencies and asset building organizations have begun exploring ways to boost the financial strength of domestic violence survivors.

This section will highlight ways that domestic violence service providers and AFI project staff can collaborate to bring IDAs and asset building strategies to domestic violence survivors. It provides information for AFI projects on the nature of domestic violence and economic abuse, materials for domestic violence service providers about a range of asset building services that can help their clients, and training materials for both communities on how to best help domestic violence survivors access financial services and savings programs that would be most helpful to them.

Helping Domestic Violence Survivors Build Assets

About This Initiative

• Building Assets for Survivors of Domestic Violence Initiative
• Asset Building for Domestic Violence Survivors: Why is it Important?

What AFI Grantees Need to Know about Domestic Violence and Economic Abuse

• What is Domestic Violence?

What Domestic Violence Agencies Need to Know about Asset Building Programs

• Assets for Independence: A Fact Sheet for Domestic Violence Service Providers
• Safety Planning in Partnership: Providing Asset-Building Services to Domestic Violence Survivors
• Helping Domestic Violence Survivors Claim the Earned Income Tax Credit
• Providing Financial Education Services to Domestic Violence Survivors
• Providing Credit Repair Services to Domestic Violence Survivors
• Providing Debt Management Services to Domestic Violence Survivors
• Establishing Individual Development Accounts for Domestic Violence Survivors
• Access to Federal Benefits for Domestic Violence Survivors

Strategies for Partnering between AFI and Domestic Violence Agencies

• Integrating Asset-Building Strategies into Domestic Violence Advocacy

AFI Serving Domestic Violence Survivors Toolkit

• AFI Serving Domestic Violence Survivors Toolkit