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September 2010
Reproductive Justice: A Communications Overview
Publisher(s):The objective of this report includes understanding the values that underlie the American public’s views on issues relating to reproductive justice as a predicate to developing a communications framework for the reproductive justice movement, and identifying those segments of the public who appear to be most receptive to reproductive justice messaging and policies.
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September 2010
Lessons from SEED: A National Demonstration of Child Development Accounts
Publisher(s):This summary report details the experience of over 1100 children in 12 states, working with the SEED program. Included is information on related state and federal policy, market development, and communications. The results of this research have implications for the design of a larger system of CDAs.
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August 2010
Separate, Unequal, and Unrecognized
Publisher(s):This article describes the obstacles that female service members and veterans are faced with during deployment and when trying to reintegrate to their home communities.
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August 2010
Continued Presence: Temporary Immigration Status for Victims of Human Trafficking
Publisher(s):This fact sheet defines continued presence, explains why it is an important tool for federal state and local law enforcement, offers information on the application process, describes who authorizes Continued Presence applications and who qualifies for this immigration status.
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August 2010
Financial Abuse of Elderly People vs. Other Forms of Elder Abuse: Assessing Their Dynamics, Risk Factors, and Society’s Responslderly People vs. Other Forms of Elder Abuse: Assessing Their Dynamics, Risk Factors, and Societys Response
Publisher(s):The purpose of this study was to examine the dynamics and societal response to financial exploitation that did not co-occur with other forms of elder abuse and compare it to financial exploitations that did occur with other forms of elder abuse, including physical abuse and neglect.
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August 2010
The Four Cs of HIV Prevention with African Americans: Crisis, Condoms, Culture, and Community
Publisher(s):This journal article discusses how to design successful interventions to prevent HIV using socio-cultural factors which address institutional and social barriers impacting risk reduction in African American communities.
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August 2010
A Safer Campus: A Guidebook for Prevention and Response to Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking for Ohio Campuses
Publisher(s):The guidebook assists campus administrators in assessment, development, and delivery of consistent and appropriate plans and protocols to prepare for the possibility that sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and stalking will occur among students, faculty, and staff on their campuses.
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August 2010
"If There Was a Dire Emergency, We Never Would Have Been Able to Get in There”: Domestic Violence Reporting and Disasters
Publisher(s): This paper examines domestic violence reporting in a community in New Zealand struck by a snow storm. Issues that arose from a lack of planning or policy are discussed, and suggestions are made for improving emergency planning.
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August 2010
Early Childhood Trauma
Publisher(s): This resource provides information about symptoms and protective factors for young children who have been exposed to trauma.
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August 2010
Civil Rights Guidance to Federal Financial Assistance Recipients Regarding Title VI Prohibition against National Origin Discrimination Affecting Limited English Proficient Persons
Publisher(s):This document contains guidance to ensure language access to LEP domestic violence survivors that are seeking to receive services from organizations receiving federal funding such as domestic violence and sexual assault programs.
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July 2010
Lifecourse Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence and Help-Seeking among Filipina, Indian, and Pakistan Women: Implications for Justice System Responses
Publisher(s):This report presents research findings on Asian battered women's help-seeking from the Criminal Justice system (CJS) and other programs and offers recommendations to the CJS for enhancing their responses to IPV in Asian communities.
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July 2010
Military reckons with the mental wounds of war
Publisher(s):This article tells the story of Staff Sgt. James Ownbey, a Marine who served in Iraq as an explosive ordinance disposal technician in 2007, and two other deployments who now suffers from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and numerous physical ailments.