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January 2011
Services Outside of the Box: Helping Transgender Clients Navigate Sex-Segregated Services
Publisher(s):This resource is designed to help advocates and trans survivors themselves navigate sex-segregated services. It also provides concrete advice on how service providers can think beyond sex-segregation.
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- Training Tools
- General Material
January 2011
Secondary Traumatic Stress: A Fact Sheet for Child-Serving Professionals
Publisher(s):This fact sheet provides a concise overview of secondary traumatic stress and its potential impact on child-serving professionals. It also outlines options for assessment, prevention, and interventions relevant to secondary stress, and describes the elements necessary for transforming child-serving organizations and agencies into systems that also support worker resiliency.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 2011
Somewhere to Turn: Making Domestic Violence Services Accessible to Battered Immigrant Women - A 'How To' Manual For Battered Women's Advocates and Service Providers
This manual addresses the dynamics of domestic violence in immigrant families; ways to create agency-wide cultural competency training programs; multicultural approaches to shelter protocol development; recruiting and hiring multicultural staff; foreign language needs and helpful interviewing techniques for client intake sessions and meetings; ways to do outreach and collaboration with immigrant communities; and, descriptions of model programs.
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- General Material
January 2011
Contextualizing Domestic Violence from a LGBTQ Perspective
Publisher(s):This article provides information about domestic violence in LGBTQ communities as well as information on available research and resources.
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- General Material
January 2011
2010-2011 IDA Program Survey
Publisher(s):This report provides findings from a survey of IDA programs across the country. The results include key aspects of the IDA field including information on accountholders, common asset purchases, and funding sources, as well as resource gaps of the field.
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- General Material
January 2011
Tech Top 10 Guidelines: Social Media Use by Programs & Staff
Publisher(s):Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR), Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (PCADV)
In recognition of the increasing role that social media plays in the lives of survivors as well as programs and staff, this tool addresses the benefits and risks of social media use within anti-violence programs.
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- General Material
January 2011
Domestic Violence and Traumatic Brain Injury Tip Card
Publisher(s):This tip card provides information on one of the most unrecognized consequences of domestic violence, encouraging family members, friends, and professionals to be aware of the causes and long-term consequences of TBI.
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- General Material
January 2011
Taking Stock of Ten Years of Research on the Relationship Between Assets and Children's Educational Outcomes: Implications for Theory, Policy, and Intervention
Publisher(s):This paper reviews the relationship between assets and children's long-term educational attainment, and highlights Child Development Accounts (CDAs) as an important asset in this equation.
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- General Material
January 2011
An Ally's Guide to Terminology: Talking About LGBT People & Equality
Publisher(s):An overview of essential vocabulary for allies wishing to talk about LGBT people and equality, providing explanations about certain terms that have historically been used against gay and transgender people and showing how allies can use respectful language in different contexts.
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- General Material
January 2011
A Passport to Safety
Publisher(s): This publication is designed to facilitate the efforts of states, tribes, and territories to implement the Full Faith & Credit Provisions of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which require that a protection order obtained in one state be enforced in another state.
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- General Material
January 2011
Challenges and Successes in Linking HIV-Infected Women to Care in the United States
Publisher(s):This article reviews risk factors for HIV infection in women, barriers to engagement in care, and strategies to improve linkage to HIV-related medical and social care. It focuses specifically on the disproportionate impact of HIV on women of color, and strategies to increase engagement in care.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 2011
See Me: The Media, My World, and Me
Publisher(s): This web resource provides teaching and learning modules the promote positive body image and the impact of the media on beauty and gender stereotypes.