WEBINAR: "Why Cry if No One Hears?" The Deaf Community's Experience of Sexual and Domestic Violence
Materials from the webinar held on July 28 and 29, 2009 include the PowerPoint presentation and questions and answers from the presenter.
Material Listing
Connect: Supporting Children Exposed to Domestic Violence - In-service Training for Resource Families, a Trainer's Guide and Tools
This resource is a basic training session on the dynamics of domestic violence, the impact of exposure to domestic violence (DV) on children, and strategies for supporting children who have been exposed to DV. It is appropriate for foster parents, kin caregivers, and adoptive parents with all levels of experience in caring for children who have been exposed to domestic violence, or who may have cause to care for these children in the future.
Opening "Doorways" to Safer Schools
The Doorways program is a series of manuals targeting three key audiences: teachers, students and community members. These three groups can create a critical mass in schools that will bring about transformative, lasting change.
Deaf Culture and Domestic Violence
This PowerPoint presentation offers an overview of the Deaf culture, accessibility challenges faced by Deaf individuals in society, dynamics present for Deaf victims, myths and realities about the Deaf culture among members of the hearing world, and more.
Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) Resources
This page from the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises features key resources to help you learn more about the MISP and how to successfully implement it, including a learning module, quick reference guide, and advocacy sheet.
Conflict Resolution Trainers' Manual: 12 Skills, 2nd Edition
This resource is a guide to running successful conflict resolution sessions. It offers teaching material, group and individual exercises, and handouts on the 12 skills of conflict resolution. Each chapter starts with clear guidelines for constructing training slots of different lengths.
Module 7: Skills Development (JARS Curriculum Trainer's Manual)
This document is a trainer’s module on skills development. Sections included in this module are Understanding Crisis, The Helping Relationship, Effective Communication, Problem Solving, Crisis Intervention, Safety Planning, and Goal Planning.
Internet Predators - DOJ's Project Safe Child Initiative
This podcast features an interview with Marsali Hancock, president of the Internet Keep Safe Coalition, working in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency under DOJ's Project Safe Childhood initiative.
Strengthening the Characters of Boys: What We Know and Can Do
Presented at the White House Conference on Helping America’s Children, this speech focuses on the importance of fostering the healthy development and growth of boys.