Material Listing

Highlights include:

'On the Road:' Learning From the Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence
Featuring Women of Color-led Initiatives: A Site Visit with Spirits of Hope Coalition
Poems: My Innocence & Counting
Survivor Advocacy in the Digital Age
Domestic Violence and Animal Abuse: Addressing Survivors' Concerns for Their Pets

Contents:

1. Planning Perspective
2. Evolution of Funding Instability
3. Consequences of Funding Instability: Victims
4. Consequences of Funding Instability: Direct Services
5. Agenda for Change

Articles include:

This article was published in the series Reproductive Health and Rights: Reaching the Hardly Reached by PATH publications. The article provides a general overview of the issue of trafficking, describes obstacles to reaching trafficked persons, and provides solutions for responding to the needs of victims of trafficking through outreach and services.

This Bulletin provides an anecdotal look at how U.S. SANE programs are impacting sexual assault victims, service practice, and communities.

Articles include:

It reports on current research suggesting that victims experience a variety of negative mental health effects from sexual assault, including post-traumatic stress symptoms. It describes how rape survivors may struggle with how family and friends are reacting to the assault and may have to cope with secondary victimization experiences they encounter in some post-rape help seeking. It highlights a wide variety of issues rape survivors may present in therapy.

Routinely asking all individuals about accommodation needs gives the program information that enables them to provide appropriate accessible services. The protocol includes a recommended policy and procedures that cover initial contact and crisis intervention, providing ongoing services, a sample of screening questions and a reprint from Northwest Justice Project on signing documents when physically unable.