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Survivors in Contact 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.
total results: 19  | date published date added a-z

Special Collection

Special Collection
August 2018

Building Comprehensive Solutions to Domestic Violence

Author(s):
Supporting critical thinking, learning, and victim-defined advocacy.

Materials

Materials
  • General Material
  • NRCDV Publications
  • Training Tools
December 2020

WEBINAR: Reducing Violent Behavior

Author(s): Publisher(s):
Survivors in contact with a partner or parent who is abusive cannot rely on leaving a relationship or physical separation to end the violence, abuse, or control. For them to be safer, the violent behavior must be reduced, and they’ll need options to meet basic need and be well. This webinar features Jacquelyn Boggess, Lisa Nitsch, Juan Carlos Areán, and Jill Davies in an important conversation about supporting behavior change, safety planning, and our advocacy.
Materials
  • General Material
  • NRCDV Publications
October 2019

Victim-Defined Advocacy Beyond Leaving: Safer through Strategies to Reduce Violent Behavior

Author(s): Publisher(s):
This paper explores strategies to reduce violent behavior, both physical violence and all other forms of abuse,  using a victim-defined approach. It recognizes that reducing violence is central to our mission, difficult, and long been a part of our advocacy to make victims safer. 
Materials
  • General Material
September 2015

Accounting for Risk and Danger Practice Checklists: Coordinating Risk Assessment in Domestic Violence Cases

Author(s): Publisher(s):
These checklists are intended to help jurisdictions ensure that their criminal justice responses identify and address potential risks to victims, based on sound research on risk factors associated with IPV.
Materials
November 2013

Research, Reports and Studies Compilation

Publisher(s):
This document compiles notable research, reports and studies addressing: the prevalence of domestic and sexual violence and stalking; the costs and economic impact of these forms of violence; the workplace impact of these forms of violence; perpetrators’ impact on the workplace; workplace violence and workplace violence risk assessment/response.
Materials
June 2013

State Law Guide: Workplace Restraining Orders

Publisher(s):
This guide covers state laws and legislative proposals affecting an employer's ability to seek restraining orders for employees in situations involving domestic violence.
Materials
  • General Material
January 2013

Women who Stay: Perspectives of Latina Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence on Staying with or Leaving Abusive Partners

Publisher(s):
Many women, regardless of race or ethnicity, choose to continue to live with partners who have been (or continue to be) abusive. Traditional domestic violence intervention approaches have emphasized women leaving abusive relationships, but the applicability and acceptability of this approach for women from culturally diverse backgrounds, including immigrant and Latina survivors of IPV, is not well understood.
Materials
  • General Material
  • Training Tools
January 2011

Advocacy Beyond Leaving: Helping Battered Women in Contact with Current or Former Partners, A Guide for Domestic Violence Advocates

Author(s): Publisher(s):
Using the familiar and concrete framework of woman-defined advocacy, the Guide explains advocates’ important role in safety planning when victims are in contact with current or former partners.
Materials
  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
October 2008

Meeting Survivors' Needs: A Multi-State Study of Domestic Violence Shelter Experiences

Author(s): Publisher(s):
This groundbreaking study provides important insights into the role that shelters play in survivors' efforts to escape violence and abuse. Results capture the voices and experiences of over 3,400 shelter residents in 215 programs across eight states.
Materials
  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
June 2008

When Battered Women Stay... Advocacy Beyond Leaving

Author(s): Publisher(s):
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.
Materials
  • General Material
January 2007

Ozha Wahbegganis: Exploring Supervised Visitation and Exchange Services in Native American Communities

Publisher(s):
This resource explores ways to serve families who have experienced intimate partner violence and where children are visiting or being exchanged between the abused and abusive parent, with a specific focus on cultural considerations relating to Native Americans.
Materials
  • General Material
January 2002

Batterers As Fathers: Rethinking and Reconceptualizing Policy and Practice

Author(s): Publisher(s):
This article describes an approach to intervention and prevention with children exposed to domestic violence that enforces the concepts of batterer accountability and change.