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An Online Resource Library on Domestic & Sexual Violence

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Human Rights Coloring Book

This coloring book has 32 great pages for children to color and learn about human rights. The text is provided in both English and Spanish. The final page indicates that "everybody has the right to peace at home."

WhatÍs So Important about Good Relationships?

This brief article describes the importance of relationships to human development thoughout the lifespan, noting: "nurturing, sensitive adult-child interactions are crucial for the development of trust, empathy, compassion, generosity, and conscience."

A Parent's Guide to Sexual Abuse Prevention

It is the result of years of research on sexual abuse and pedophile tendencies. This guide covers:

  • Myths and facts of sexual abuse
  • Molester psychology
  • How the damage occurs
  • Why children don't tell
  • The psychology of abuse-what makes it click
  • What makes kids a hard target
  • How to abuse proof your child
  • Avoiding suggestive questioning

Coaching Boys into Men Brochure

This brochure suggests strategies that men can use to teach the boys in their lives that there is no excuse for violence in any relationship.

Coaching Boys into Men Playbook

This Playbook provides "teach-easy" tactics and teachable moments to illustrate ways coaches can role model and promote healthy choices and relationships among youth.

Prevention and Intervention of Sexual Violence in Schools: Talking about ïItÍ

It is a tool to get people who work with children and youth talking about sexual violence. Describes the basics, reviews promising strategies, explains what to do after an incident, and provides dialogue points and questions.

Introduces the 3 P's Approach to Sexual Health and Responsible Behavior: Promotion, Protection, Prevention.

Keep Children Safe: A program to Help Children Cope with Community Violence

Keeping Children Safe is a prevention/intervention program that was developed to examine the effects of exposure to community violence and its association with symptoms of posttraumatic stress in children. Some activities were also developed to prevent children from becoming involved in unsafe situations.

Promoting Positive Peer Social Interactions

This document describes positive peer social interactions, describes the evidence base for strategies to promote them, and explains why this is important. Resources to use for implementation are provided.

Talk with Your Child

This article offers tips, strategies, and resources for talking with your child about dating, forming friendships, and treating one another with respect.

Tough Talk: What boys need to know about relationship abuse

Highlights several training tools and background information for use in promoting men's involvement in the movement to end violence against women. Also included are educational materials to support the teaching of non-violence to boys and young men.

Chat Abbreviations

This list of chat abbreviations was designed to test your knowledge of shorthand text commonly used by youth in Instant Messenger and chat rooms.

Stay Safe Online

A poster for parents to print out for their children to use as a mat/poster in front of the computer to remember the 5 SMART rules when using the internet and mobile phones.

The Internet and Your Family

This brief article provides information to help teach children the basics of the Internet, including how to keep safe. Includes age-based guidelines for children's internet use.

A Smart Guide to Kid's TV

Along with reading, playing and time spent with caregivers, the right mix of children's television can spur curiousity, discovery and lots of fun. Provides links to additional information about the effects of television watching on children.

Talk to your kids...before everyone else does

This booklet offers practical concrete tips and techniques for talking easily and openly with young children ages 8 to 12 about some tough issues: sex and relationships, HIV/AIDS, violence, drugs and alcohol.

Raise Respectful Boys...Not Macho Men

This article provides tips for parents and caretakers on how to resist traditional gender norms and raise healthier, happier sons and daughters. Specifically, the focus is on strategies for raising respectful boys.