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Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

The results displayed below have been grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections - containing our most highly valued resources - then by individual related materials. Refine your search by category, types, author and/or publisher using the options provided. Sort by date published, date added, or alphabetically. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
Results displayed are grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections then by individual related materials. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
June 2008

When Battered Women Stay... Advocacy Beyond Leaving

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This paper raises key issues, questions, and dilemmas regarding advocacy with battered women who stay in their relationships. It discusses limitations of safety strategies for leaving, and frames issues central to the expansion of advocacy beyond leaving.
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  • General Material
June 2008

Chart a Course: Policies that Affect Victim Services for Teens

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This booklet is a guide on examining policies for working with teens who experience crime and abuse. It provides information about mandatory reporting, confidential communications, boundaries, and building partnerships with advocates and schools.
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  • General Material
June 2008

Elder Patients at Risk of Abuse

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This fact sheet notes elder abuse in Indian Country, emphasizes prevention by health care professionals, presents links to elder abuse assessment instrument, and offers guidance on understanding abuse in the contexts of the culture of older persons.
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  • General Material
June 2008

Physical “Fixes” that Help Programs Minimize Rules

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This handout facilitates creative thinking about changing physical environments in shelters so that potentially oppressive rules can be eliminated.
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  • General Material
June 2008

A Development Approach to Working with Teen Victims

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This document offers suggestions and practical tips for practitioners working with teens. The document suggests that service providers have knowledge of adolescent development approach and apply this knowledge in their work with young people.
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  • General Material
May 2008

Considering the Differences: Intimate Partner Sexual Violence in Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Discourse

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This article discusses the gap in services for survivors of intimate partner sexual violence and how both sexual assault and domestic violence service providers can help fill that gap.
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  • General Material
May 2008

Transcending Violence: Emerging Models for Trauma Healing in Refugee Communities

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This monograph is an introduction and overview of the issues involved in providing mental health trauma services for refugees in the United States. It is intended primarily for people who work in or care about the public mental health system.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
May 2008

Substance Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence

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This document provides an overview of the research on the relationship between substance abuse and woman battering, covering the victim's use of substances and the specific needs for domestic violence services for those with substance abuse problems.
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  • General Material
April 2008

Pediatricians Should Screen Moms for Domestic Violence

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This news article discusses a 2008 study by Dr. Bair-Merritt. Findings of the study underscore the need for pediatricians to screen mothers for domestic violence.
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  • General Material
April 2008

First Response to Victims of Crime: A Guidebook for Law Enforcement Officers

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This guide book offers user-friendly information for law enforcement on how to respond to a wide range of victims. It attempts to highlight the most salient issues involved for victims of certain crimes and for certain populations of victims.
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  • General Material
April 2008

How We Gave up Curfew (and a lot of other rules, too)

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A program director reflects on how her program’s staff worked to pare down the shelter rules, rethinking what was necessary and reexamining their own investment in particular rules.
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  • General Material
April 2008

Women in the Wake of the Storm: Examining the Post-Katrina Realities of the Women of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

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"This report shares findings garnered from a series of interviews held with a diverse group of women from throughout the Gulf region. In telling their stories, it provides an analysis of women's increased vulnerability during times of natural disasters and lays out policy recommendations that pinpoint how best to address those needs in the wake of this disaster, and in anticipation of the next."