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Prevention tips and resources are provided to help children and youth of different ages or stages of development. The document is organized into four sections: Background Information; The 'Basics' of Sexual Violence; Types of Sexual Violence; and Who Can Help: Websites and Resources for Families.

The guide is designed to help prosecutors, victim advocates, and policymakers understand the state of victim/witness assistance in rural communities, including staffing limitations, the roles and responsibilities of advocates, and the challenges that rural prosecutors' offices face in providing assistance to crime victims and effectively prosecuting the perpetrators of crime. It provides an overview of these challenges along with tips and strategies for overcoming them. Likewise, the guide includes promising practices with an extensive list of resources.

This document presents good practice tips for health care professionals working with patients who have been abused. The guidelines provide screening tips, highlight the negative effect of couples counseling in domestic violence situations, and present safety planning tips.

This news article discusses a 2008 study by Dr. Bair-Merritt. Findings of the study underscore the need for pediatricians to screen mothers for domestic violence.

This screening tool is designed for perinatal health care providers who have the opportunity to build trust and help women disclose sensitive information, such as domestic violence.

This information sheet examines the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy, its prevalence globally, its health consequences, whether pregnancy is a trigger for IPV, interventions, and policy and research implications.

It also talks about the unique problems in rural communities, the isolation and prevalence of anti-woman violence in rural areas.

This report documents the impact of rural life on the behavioral health of women, providing a comprehensive review of the current literature covering a broad array of interrelated behavioral health care needs and concluding with a discussion of the most pressing priorities for future research, policy decisions, and treatment implications. The report discusses the following; depression and anxiety, substance abuse, maternal health, HIV / AIDS, violence, homicide and suicide, gay rural women, elderly rural women, disabled rural women as well commonly cited barriers to treatment.

Based on a synthesis of the empirical literature and original data analyses, this report presents an overview of the epidemiology of violence against American-Indian and Alaska-Native women as well as a review of the criminal justice responses to this violence.

The paper concludes by finding that many women were sexually assaulted at various points in the separation process: 53% being sexually assaulted when they wanted to leave, 32% while they were leaving, and 37% after they had left.