Intervention & Prevention Content Topic Results

This workbook is comprised of two activity modules to help think through designing an IDA with funding from the Assets for Independence program that meets the particular needs of the community.

This resource reviews the needs of abused women as mothers, batterers as parents, effects of power and control tactics on mothers, the potential impact of woman abuse on children of different ages, and strategies used by young people to cope with violence in their homes.

This document includes the paper Costs of Male Violence by Stefan de Vylder as its Appendix. "In this report, seven masculinity researchers write about masculinity in different parts of the world and about how masculinity is often linked to violence. These acts of violence are committed not only against women and children, but also against other men. The writers suggest a number of ways in which men can be involved in working to combat men's violence." The argument presented in this paper is articulated through 13 key principles:

This document is intended as a guide for mental health providers on screening and assessment for domestic violence among clients seen in their practice settings. Questions can be easily incorporated into existing intake forms and assessment procedures. See also Responding to Domestic Violence: Sample Forms for Mental Health Providers.

Nonprofits today are being pressed to demonstrate the effectiveness of their program activities by initiating and completing outcome-oriented evaluation of projects. This guide was developed to provide practical assistance to nonprofits engaged in this process.

This paper explores three dimensions of audism (individual, institutional, and metaphysical) in further detail.

The research findings, based upon three focus groups of female residents from the various housing types, describe women's housing needs specifically and broadly from location to the effect of utility costs with less modern housing.

This resource discusses sexual violence as a serious public health problem with extensive short- and long-term health consequences. It identifies concepts and strategies that may be used as a foundation for planning, implementing, and evaluating sexual violence prevention activities.

Series of publications discuss a coordinated systems approach, provide model policy responses to issues impacting children exposed to domestic violence and review confidentiality and information-sharing issues that arise through collaborations.

The tool kit discusses specific actions you should take, as well as issues you need to consider, before selecting an individual to serve in your organization. The screening process presented is based upon four overarching principles: legal compliance, systematic application of procedures, matching level of screening with position-specific risk factors, and applying uniform selection criteria to all applicants for a specific position.

Bless Our Children is a powerful video that tells the story of one congregation's efforts to include sexual abuse prevention in their children's religious education. The study guide for the video provides a case study approach on child abuse prevention education in a local church, practical methods to educate parents and teachers, strategies to address possible resistance to implementing prevention education, and actual classroom examples.

The Danger Assessment (DA) was originally developed by Co-Investigator Campbell (1986) with consultation and content validity support from battered women, shelter workers, law enforcement officials, and other clinical experts on battering.