by Caleb Weinhardt | Aug 15, 2025 | Providers, Trans Community / Survivors
Question “My agency has done a lot of work to update all of our forms to be trans inclusive. We train staff to ask for and use pronouns, and we share ours. We’ve changed the décor in our main offices, updated our bathroom signs, and changed our description on our...
by Caleb Weinhardt | Jul 29, 2025 | Policy, Providers, Trans Community / Survivors
Question: “What are the laws in my state about transgender rights and healthcare?” There is an amazing array of laws, regulations, and policies that impact transgender people and their families at the federal, state, and local level. These policies are constantly...
by Caleb Weinhardt | Jul 10, 2024 | Anti-Violence, Providers
FORGE is hosting a series of webinars that focus on anti-trans hate violence and how it can and does impact victim service providers and allied professionals. Each of these four webinars will be offered twice. All live webinars will include ASL and will also be...
by Caleb Weinhardt | Oct 5, 2023 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Sexual Violence, Trans Community / Survivors
Read this page in English. FORGE está llevando a cabo más de 24 sesiones de escucha con les miembros de la comunidad y les proveedores de servicios con el fin de diseñar un kit de herramientas sobre la forma de brindar servicio a las personas trans y no binarias que...
by Caleb Weinhardt | Oct 5, 2023 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Sexual Violence, Trans Community / Survivors
Read this page in English. FORGE ha recibido financiamiento de la Oficina para Víctimas del Delito (OVC, por sus siglas en inglés) para crear un kit de herramientas novedoso y amplio dirigido a les proveedores de servicios, a fin de responder a las necesidades de las...
by Caleb Weinhardt | Jul 7, 2023 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Sexual Violence, Trans Community / Survivors
Haga clic aquí para información en español FORGE has been funded by the Office of Victims of Crime to create a new, extensive Toolkit for service providers on responding to the needs of transgender/nonbinary victims of crime. The Toolkit will encompass a wide spectrum...
by michael munson | Dec 23, 2021 | Providers, Trans Community / Survivors
We are so incredibly grateful to all of you who helped improve the lives of trans and nonbinary survivors this past year – and throughout the past 27 years. Your support – through caring about your trans friends/family members/clients, showing up, sharing resources,...
by michael munson | Jun 2, 2021 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Self-Help, Trans Community / Survivors
One of our core values is Empowerment. We wanted to share a bit more about what empowerment means to us, how empowerment is the framework for everything we do, how you can foster empowerment in others, and some specific FORGE empowerment resources. What does...
by michael munson | Apr 17, 2020 | Anti-Violence, Bathrooms, Core Concepts, Intimate Partner Violence, Providers, Self-Help, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Violence, Shelter
One way providers can let transgender/non-binary survivors and loved ones know that a provider or agency is trans-aware is to have brochures or other trans-specific information in the waiting room or brochure rack. Since most agencies that serve survivors are small,...
by FORGE Intern | Jun 5, 2019 | Anti-Violence, Providers
The articles in this Reaching Victims newsletter include: a quote from Sarah McBride; a description of FORGE; and an article on the importance of using correct names. See the newsletter online here This monthly newsletter is our opportunity to: Spotlight victim...
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