Material Listing

This short fact sheet explains what triggers are and how to handle situations that might be triggering a person.

This Conversation Guide is designed to help you increase emotional safety and improve responsiveness to trauma in your shelter or program.

The Model Medication Policy is designed to offer guidance to domestic violence programs on adopting medication policies that are accessible, trauma informed, and compliant with anti-discrimination laws.

This document provides guidance on creating shelter environments that are safe and healthy for residents and staff.

This page provides access to Federal information about best practices and procedures for food safety.

This page includes fact sheets about food safety for at-risk populations, including people with HIV/AIDS, pregnant women, older adults, and people with diabetes.

This toolkit for service providers is a teaching tool and guide for understanding how trauma from domestic violence impacts children and how best to serve these children's needs. Although it was designed for use by shelter-based and other domestic violence direct service providers in North Carolina, it has broad applicability.

This document gathers federal research about programs that serve children exposed to violence and includes a summary of the practices associated with successful results.

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 tip sheet gives describes common behaviors among infants, young children, school-age children, and adolescents exposed to domestic violence and provides concrete recommendations about ways advocates can help.