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A one-page sheet includes the findings, executive summary, and recommendations. The piece is an update to a more extensive report issued in April 2003, Credit Counseling in Crisis listed below. The update lists states that have licensing and registration laws. The report also describes survey results of an 8-state survey (Arizona, Idaho, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York) covering numbers of licensing applications, rejections, enforcement actions, and staffing.

This page addresses fraudulent or abusive lending practices in the mortgage market, commonly referred to as predatory lending, offering a state-by-state review of laws concerning predatory mortgage lending.

This section of the Code of Federal Regulations, states the rules on request of credit information of a spouse or former spouse.  A creditor can not use information on the other spouse or former spouse of the applicant, except in specific instances of joint use, liability, or reliance on collateral or that spouseÍs income.

This guide is intended to provide sexual violence advocates with information about child sexual abuse prevention programs that target adults. It will provide information about the basics of such programs and an overview of evaluation research for these programs. This guide is intended to assist advocates and prevention educators in selecting or designing prevention programs, and to provide evidence to support them in advocating for these programs to funders and the community at large.

Advocates may find this manual helpful for capacity building on the CRA and for determining strategies for collaboration in their respective communities.

This expanded fact sheet provides an overview of child sexual abuse prevention and offers resources and answers the following questions: What is child sexual abuse? How common is child sexual abuse? Who are the victims of child sexual abuse? Who are the perpetrators? What are the warning signs that a child may be sexually abused? Risk factors for the perpetration of child sexual abuse? How can I reduce the risk of children being abused?

This is an excellent advocacy tool for survivors and advocates.

Advocates may find this document helpful as it is co-written by the company that promotes the FICO scoring system.

Relevant reports and studies are linked within the document making this document an efficient 'one-stop' reference tool.

This fact sheet provides a quick guide for obtaining free annual credit reports, identifies credit report scams to watch for, and provides more in depth instruction on what to do if information in a credit report is inaccurate or incomplete.