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May 2009

Transforming Communities to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation: A Primary Prevention Approach

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The following pages lay out a primary prevention approach with a special focus on effecting change by influencing policies and altering organizational practices.We begin with a short discussion of emerging environmental challenges followed by an examination of specific norms that contribute to child sexual abuse and exploitation.
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  • Training Tools
  • General Material
February 2009

Webinar - Now That We Know: How to Use the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Report to Mobilize Change

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This is a 2-hour webinar presenting the findings and recommendations from the 2008 report “Now That We Know” by the Washington State Domestic Violence Fatality Review.
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  • General Material
  • Training Tools
January 2009

SASA! An Activist Kit for Preventing Violence against Women and HIV

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This toolkit offers a comprehensive, user-friendly program tool for organizations interested in mobilizing communities to prevent violence against women and HIV infection. Included in this toolkit are practical resources, activities, and monitoring and assessment tools for local activism, media and advocacy, communication, and training materials.
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January 2009

Addressing the Violence Before It Starts: Domestic Violence Primary Prevention Plan

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As part of CDC’s DELTA program, the Rhode Island State Steering Committee developed this domestic violence primary prevention plan as the first step in a long-term process to alter cultural norms, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that support domestic violence. The plan identifies evidence-informed prevention strategies targeting men and teens, as well as several ways to improve community-based organizations' and community members' ability to use and evaluate prevention strategies.
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  • General Material
January 2009

Summary: Virginia's Plan for Primary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence

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This statewide plan was based on a systematic 10-step planning process called “Getting to Outcomes.” The goal was to create and implement evidence-based strategies that prevent first-time perpetration of intimate partner violence.
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December 2008

Hairdressers Take a Stand Against Domestic Violence

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This podcast spotlights New York hairdressers who are partnering to fight domestic violence by learning the warning signs and extending help to clients who may be suffering in silence by participating in the Beauty Salon Awareness Project.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
November 2008

Mobilizing Communities to Prevent Domestic Violence

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Mobilizing communities to prevent domestic violence involves engaging communities in supporting, developing, and implementing prevention strategies that target change in individuals, as well as in the community and society. Potential strategies include educating the community, building support among key stakeholders for prevention efforts, developing programs that strengthen social networks, organizing community groups to challenge social norms that contribute to the use of violence, and advocating for community accountability.
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  • General Material
July 2008

Fatality Review Reports: Innovative Advocates Use the Reports

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This document provides practical examples of how advocates have used fatality review reports to raise awareness of domestic violence and mobilize change in their communities.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
March 2008

A Prevention Primer for Domestic Violence: Terminology, Tools, and the Public Health Approach

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This document provides an introduction to basic prevention concepts by exploring the public health approach, two classification systems, a planning tool used to develop more comprehensive initiatives, and the importance of understanding terminology.
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January 2008

Prop 4 Victory Brief: Reproductive Justice at the Ballot Box

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This brief discusses Proposition 4 and Proposition 8 in California as catalysts for community organizing, education, and networking; discussing different strategies and ways that leadership and coalitions can be built in communities of color around reproductive justice.
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January 2008

Deconstructing Male Violence Against Women: The Men Stopping Violence Community-Accountability Model

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Men Stopping Violence (MSV), a metro Atlanta-based organization that works to end male violence against women, uses an ecological, community-based accountability model as the foundation of its analysis of the problem of male violence against women and of its work with individuals and in communities.
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  • General Material
January 2008

Eliminating Female genital mutilation: An interagency statement

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This resource explains what FGM is and detail some of its consequences. It also calls on agencies and communities to develop, strengthen, and support specific and concrete actions directed towards ending female genital mutilation.