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This is a manual for aging services workers that helps to ensure an appropriate response to an older victim of sexual abuse.

The goal of this technical assistance manual is to allow sexual violence advocates/counselors to become adept in dealing with elder clients as needed. Advocates can peruse this guide to learn the basics of effectively working with elder clients or utilize it in a crisis situation

This booklet explores obstacles to prosecution of elder sexual abuse cases and offers practical solutions for professionals involved in these cases.

his issue of "The Basics" offers and overview of the basic principles and theories of violence against women prevention, highlighting successful prevention activities and model programs, policies, and social marketing efforts.

This direct application tool supplements the manual, "Making the Case for Domestic Violence Prevention Through the Lens of Cost-Benefit." It describes cost-benefit principles and offers hands-on tools to "make the case" for your prevention program.

This database provides state-by-state information about mandatory reporting, confidentiality laws, HIV/AIDS testing of sexual offenders, and criminal statutes of limitations for sexual offense.


This database provides state-by-state information about elder abuse mandatory reporting laws, including who is required to report, standards of knowledge, definitions of a victim, to whom the report must be made, information required in the report, and regulations regarding timing and other procedures.

This manual describes objectives and benefits of multidisciplinary teams. It describes specialized teams that have been created and their rationale, benefits, and drawbacks. Also included are recent trends, challenges, checklist for starting or revitalizing teams, and best practice resources.

This manual emphasizes the need for a multidisciplinary Elder Abuse Fatality Review Team (EA-FRT), discusses various issues and challenges that EA-FRT may face, and presents suggestions for addressing these challenges.

This paper offers practical tools that adult protective service providers can use to collaborate with other community organizations and be able to offer a greater variety of supportive and effective services.

The paper describes the roles of the Adult Protective Services and domestic violence services and discusses barriers to collaboration between the two service systems. It then presents promising practices of collaborative initiatives.

Noting the complex nature of abuse in later life, this document highlights the importance of coordination between adult protective services and domestic violence advocates. Also included are standard definitions of elder abuse, domestic violence, and abuse in later life. Case examples are presented to show the challenges and importance of clearly defining abuse in later life.

This brief document describes why and how healthcare providers should and can assess for reproductive coercion, and how to follow up when reproductive control is identified.

This community-informed research project explores the views and documents the experiences of young Latinas in diverse California regions regarding reproductive and sexual health concerns in order to showcase the day-to-day implications that such policies have among youth in our communities.

Abstract: "Women who have experienced intimate partner violence are consistently found to have poor sexual and reproductive health when compared to non-abused women, but the mechanisms through which such associations occur are inadequately defined (Coker, 2007). Through face-to-face, semi-structured in-depth interviews, we gathered full reproductive histories of 71 women aged 18-49 with a history of IPV recruited from a family planning clinic, an abortion clinic and a domestic violence shelter in the United States.

This report is the product of two-year research. The study examined elder abuse cases and specialized response to elder abuse by courts. Included in this report are innovative and promising practices in addressing elder abuse and elder needs.

This webinar highlights findings from the ground-breaking Meeting Survivors' Needs study.

Presenters include:

• MaryLouise Kelley, Director of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Program
• Dr. Eleanor Lyon from the University of Connecticut
• The Policy Team at the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)