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July 2015

WEBINAR: Expanding Safety and Support Services For Survivors of Domestic Violence and Their Pets

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This webinar reviewed 1) ways to provide safe shelter to survivors and their pets, 2) details regarding National SAF-T day, 3) new legislation that protects victims and pets from further abuse, and 4) an overview of the Safe Havens Mapping Project.
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  • General Material
  • NRCDV Publications
September 2014

Why Pets Mean So Much: The Human-Animal Bond in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence

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Developed by the Animal Welfare Institute, this Technical Assistance Guidance explores ways that victim advocates can assist survivors of domestic violence and their pets when seeking safety and refuge from abuse.
Materials
  • General Material
  • NRCDV Publications
  • Training Tools
July 2014

WEBINAR: Sheltering Animals and Families Together: Expanding safety and support services for survivors while helping to protect their pets

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This webinar describes the linkage between the urgent need to protect domestic violence victims and their pets from further abuse and the comfort that pets can provide, especially in times of stress and trauma.
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  • General Material
January 2014

Understanding the Link between Violence to Animals and People: A Guidebook for Criminal Justice Professionals

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The Link between violence to people and violence to animals is well documented by research, both nationallyand internationally. In its simplest form: violence to animals is a predictor that the abuser may becomeviolent to people, and vice versa. Abuse is abuse no matter what the form or whom the victim. Crimes against people are tied to a myriad of crimes against animals and threespecific types of animal abuse that are linked to crimes against people are featured in this guidebook: sexualassaults against animals (bestiality), animal hoarding, and animal fighting.
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May 2013

Guidelines for Directories of Domestic Violence Pet Support Programs

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Hundreds of domestic violence shelters are now providing safe pet housing options to enable families to leave abusers without having to make an impossible choice to leave their pets behind and at risk. This resource provides guiding principles for the structure and maintenance of pet support (foster care and on-site housing) directories.
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  • General Material
  • Training Tools
January 2012

Sheltering Animals & Families Together: Start-Up Manual

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This manual provides simple, how-to methods for starting SAF-T at a domestic violence shelter. SAF-T is available to encourage every domestic violence shelter throughout the United States and other countries to keep people and their pets safe.
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  • General Material
January 1999

Animal Cruelty/Human Violence

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This fact sheet offers statistics from several research studies investigating the connection between animal cruelty and human violence, domestic violence, and child abuse.
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Final Report on the project entitled: Animal Welfare and Domestic Violence

Author(s):
This study assesses animal maltreatment in samples of women seeking safety at shelters and community samples of women. Women in shelter were much more likely (54%) to report partners' hurting or killing of their pets than women not in shelter (3.5%).
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  • General Material
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Make a Disaster Plan for Your Pets

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This page provides helpful information on how to keep pets safe in natural disasters or everyday emergencies.
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  • General Material

Safe Havens Mapping Project

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The Safe Havens Mapping Project is a searchable directory for pets of those experiencing domestic violence, created and managed by the Animal Welfare Institute.