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This handbook was designed to provide education, clear policies, and moral courage in addressing breaches of trust and safety in the Unitarian Universalist faith community.

Collaboration Multiplier is an interactive framework and tool for analyzing collaborative efforts across fields.

This handbook presents a brief grounding of the Battered Women's Movement and offers specific ideas and strategies for engaging in mission-focused and empowerment management.

This article discusses the two main types of board conflicts (conflict among board members and conflict between board and executive or staff) and provides guidelines on how to handle the conflict situations.

This brief summary from the Council of Nonprofits outlines the board recruitment process with a number of links to help with additional information.

This protocol contains an introduction that outlines the origins and key features of CPS, and recommended policy and procedures. Covered are: individual advocacy strategies, determining if a mandatory report is required, making a mandatory report, reviewing case files, and advocating in court.

This guide for health care providers conveys important information related to addressing domestic violence in health care facilities. Topics include preparing the healthcare facility; screening in a medical setting; indicators of abuse; pregnancy; reporting and confidentiality, and; documentation.

This guide for health care providers conveys important information related to addressing domestic violence in health care facilities. Topics include preparing the healthcare facility; screening in a medical setting; indicators of abuse; pregnancy; reporting and confidentiality, and; documentation.

This page provides access to tools and resources to enhance the capacity of state domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions and local domestic violence programs to respond effectively to children who live with domestic violence.

This page offers various self-assessment checklists and measures to examine different aspects of ones current wellbeing. A link to a PDF file is provided for each of the measures/checklists.

This handout addresses some of the psychological and spiritual changes that humanitarian workers may experience. It the common symptoms of vicarious trauma and provides guidance for coping.

"Couple counseling is beneficial to work on marital problems. Wife battering, however, is a violent criminal act, not a marital problem.”

ACTING OUT LOUD provides clergy and religious leaders with background on LGBT people, points you to the best-available online resources, and offers ideas and approaches recommended by leading clergy, theologians and advocates across the country.

This brochure provides information and resources for congregations to address teen dating violence. It can be printed and inserted in a faith communitys weekly bulletin.

Religious traditions and beliefs can influence masculinity with their dominant stories of what a man's role should be in his home, community, and religious institution. If religious leaders can create environments for healthy dialogue and allow men to express themselves comfortably without using traditional gender role assignments, healthy masculinity and faith can beneficially support one another.

The Domestic Violence Outreach Resource Manual is a collection of information on domestic violence and teen dating violence. It is designed for parish ministries and staffs. It is divided into three sections: Awareness, Services, and Prevention.

The goal of this initiative is to prepare sacred community leaders, including clergy and lay leaders, to respond to domestic violence within the context of their sacred traditions.

This youth declaration invites religious leaders and concerned individuals of all faiths to sign on to commit to helping teach healthy relationships to youth in religious communities and to address teen dating violence.

This national declaration invites religious leaders and concerned individuals of all faiths to sign on to commit to using religious texts and teachings to eradicate violence against women.

This denominational statements resource is a compilation of information about the official position of major Christian denominations in the U.S. concerning domestic violence. This ever-evolving resource can be searched by religious affiliation, topic, or keyword.

This article describes how parents of a domestic violence victim (Ann) coped with her murder by her boyfriend (Conor) and ultimately used the process of restorative justice (controversial in domestic violence cases) to find forgiveness with the help of their strong religious beliefs and religious support system.

Every survivor that domestic violence programs work with is a potential homicide victim. Advocates know this as they work with survivors, advocating on their behalf and building relationships with them and often their families. Domestic violence programs deal with the reality of knowing that a homicide could happen at any time, yet not allowing this knowledge to overpower their work with victims.

This article highlights how the Canadian Muslim community responded by condemning honour killings, domestic violence and misogyny as "un-Islamic, following the murder convictions of an Islamic man and his son who were found guilty of killing four female family members in 2009.

This report gives a state-by-state accounting of when clergy are mandated reporters of child maltreatment.