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This handout facilitates creative thinking about changing physical environments in shelters so that potentially oppressive rules can be eliminated.

A program director reflects on how her program’s staff worked to pare down the shelter rules, rethinking what was necessary and reexamining their own investment in particular rules.

Domestic Violence Training for New Staff and Volunteers is a basic training curriculum on domestic violence that orients new staff and volunteers to the world of domestic violence services, providing the information needed to begin this important work.

This manual provides guidance around beginning or enhancing work with friends or family of survivors as primary supports in his/her life.

This article provides a broad overview of art therapy and includes examples of different approaches to art therapy within the domestic violence advocacy community.

This article describes an alternative arts program for abused women in prison which could be adapted to fit any service setting.

An extensive manual for those who are interested in starting a domestic violence support group, with recommendations about facilitation, group development and management, policies, and program models.

This publication offers reflections on the strengths and weaknesses of shelters as a model for helping women abused by their intimate partners.

On September 15, 2011, 89 percent of identified domestic violence programs in the United States participated in the 2011 National Census of Domestic Violence Services. The results were published in the this report.

This manual provides simple, how-to methods for starting SAF-T at a domestic violence shelter. SAF-T is available to encourage every domestic violence shelter throughout the United States and other countries to keep people and their pets safe.

This literature review provides an analysis of nine trauma-based treatments specifically designed or modified for survivors of domestic violence, along with caveats and recommendations for research and practice going forward.

This page provides statistics on the prevalence of domestic violence in the United States, including several factsheets about topics like health care costs, immigrant women, the military, and the workplace and domestic violence.

This fact sheet describes challenges for domestic violence survivors when it comes to tax preparation and reviews available resources that may be a helpful support, such as free tax filing assistance and refundable tax credits.

This list provides bibliographic references for the 2-part VAWnet Special Collection series, Trauma-Informed Domestic Violence Services.

Seeking Safety is an empirically studied, integrative treatment approach developed to help people attain safety from trauma/PTSD and substance abuse. This website provides implementation tools, sample topics, research summaries, articles, and assessment tools related to the program.

This list compiled by the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health provides recommended background readings for anyone interested in learning more about domestic violence, trauma, and mental health.

This 196-page report concludes that in many sexual assault cases, the police did not file incident reports, which are required to proceed with an investigation, or misclassified serious sexual assaults as lesser or other crimes. Human Rights Watch also found that the police presented cases to prosecutors for warrants that were so inadequately investigated that prosecutors had little choice but to refuse them and that procedural formalities were used to close cases with only minimal investigation.

This special report examines lifetime victimization of sexual violence, stalking and intimate partner violence by respondents’ self-reported sexual orientation.

Schools are uniquely positioned to promote healthy attitudes and behavior among young people, and to help teens who are experiencing violence or abuse. Young people who are informed and empowered are more likely to succeed in all of their relationships and less likely to engage in violence or to believe violence is acceptable. Love Whats Real provides 3 simple steps for your school or community to join in the movement to end violence.

This 2-page document summarizes information about the “Stop Abuse for Every Teen Act” or SAFE Teen Act designed to help schools play an important role in preventing teen dating violence.

This guidebook provides an overview of the challenges faced in conducting outreach to under served teen victims of crime and highlights examples of the various projects and resources developed and implemented in local communities in the Under served Teen Victims Initiative.

This policy toolkit was designed to support schools looking to foster a culture of healthy relationships and prevent teen dating violence. The toolkit offers best practices around the prevention of dating violence, as well as guidelines for early intervention and crisis response.

This document provides suggestions on how to help someone who is experiencing dating abuse

Safety plans look different for different types of abuse and different people. This interactive feature can help teens and young adults customize their very own safety plan to fit their specific situations.