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An Online Resource Library on Domestic & Sexual Violence
This toolkit was developed "to provide concrete guidance to communities, policy leaders, and individuals engaged in activities to end violence against women." As described, "each Toolkit chapter focuses on a particular audience or environment and includes recommendations for strengthening prevention efforts and improving services and advocacy for victims."
This toolkit was developed "to provide concrete guidance to communities, policy leaders, and individuals engaged in activities to end violence against women." As described, "each Toolkit chapter focuses on a particular audience or environment and includes recommendations for strengthening prevention efforts and improving services and advocacy for victims."
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This publication focuses on rape culture and contains a revised Sexual Violence Continuum, addresses the intersections between the Arenas of Action and the Spectrum of Prevention, and discusses the use of online surveys for evaluation.
This report offers an overview and evaluation of a bystander intervention program as well as implications and future directions for research in this area.& Although there have been previous studies&on the effectiveness of using the bystander approach with men, this is the first experimental evaluation of a bystander intervention program using a large sample of both men and women.
This toolkit emphasizes comprehensive strategies based on a human rights framework.
This school-based domestic violence prevention curriculum teaches students to recognize and prevent teen relationship abuse. Lesson plans include a variety of exercises. Parent workshop information and school staff development materials are also included.
This interactive case study guides users through a real-life situation of elder abuse. Irene's journey presents a story of domestic violence in later life and a series of questions that require taking the perspectives of professionals, family members and friends. Users are presented with effective ways to respond to victims and perpetrators and linked to current research and programmatic resources. This case study is designed for use by advocates/professionals in training settings, students in a classroom, or individuals.
Excerpt: "The Transforming Communities Technical Assistance and Training Project (TC-TAT) designed this networking directory to identify culturally relevant domestic violence prevention practices in California communities. In developing Snapshots, our hope was to create a resource for domestic violence organizations that are looking for creative ways to reach populations that are often underserved.
"The National Clearinghouse on Family Violence Video Catalogue is a guide to Canadian videos about family violence.* This collection of videos is managed and maintained in a joint venture between the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence and the National Film Board of Canada. Titles in this catalogue are listed alphabetically under four subject headings: Child Abuse and Neglect, Child Sexual Abuse, Intimate Partner Abuse and Abuse of Older Adults."
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"This resource draws together, in one place, information from the best and latest research for professionals and volunteers who help women and children. Topics addressed include what children might feel, think and do during violent incidents against their mothers, roles they might adopt before, during or after incidents, strategies of coping and survival, and how violence may be experienced by children of different ages, from infancy to adolescence. The purpose is to examine how violence against a mother can shape a child.
This summary provides information on MIÕs efforts to develop a feminist, empowerment-based framework for providing transitional supportive housing for survivors of domestic violence. It describes who was interviewed and gives a brief summary of the results of the study, which includes information on eligibility, services offered, rules and regulations, safety, relationship with staff, most helpful services and what would happen if transitional housing had not been available.
The infographic displays the multi-level interagency cooperation provided by the Federal agencies, noting key services and tasks. Click on the name of the agency to go directly to the website of that agency.
Pregnant women's experiences and needs for emotional support, physical well-being, access to healthcare and other community-based services are significantly different from women who are not pregnant. For pregnant women also dealing with past or current domestic violence and currently residing in a domestic violence shelter or safe house, the multitude of experiences and needs may be even greater.
Be the change we wish to see in the world. That is just what the staff of the NRCDV had in mind when we launched the Access Initiative in 2006. The Initiative represented NRCDV's organizational commitment -- as an employer, service provider, and community member -- to individuals with disabilities and accessibility in general.
The holiday season (defined here as the time period beginning the week of Thanksgiving through New Year's Day) can present both opportunities and challenges for survivors and advocates in shelter. This Technical Assistance Guidance discusses some issues to consider as programs work with survivors and their families during this time of year. Offering a range of supportive programing can increase the chances that residents will have a positive shelter experience. Included are practical, cost-effective interventions, which may be easily adopted at any shelter program.
With the holiday season approaching, questions arise about the connection between domestic violence and distinctive holidays. This brief document offers guidance from the NRCDV Technical Assistance Team. The 2010 version provides an analysis of the available data on the volume of request for domestic violence services during the holidays.
While rigorous evaluations of domestic violence support groups have been quite limited, the broader literature on support group efficacy is informative. Taken together, there is a significant body of evidence indicating that peer support groups can alleviate depression and stress, and increase self-esteem, self-efficacy, and psychological well-being.
Advocacy interventions have received scant evaluation, and the belief in their effectiveness has largely been predicated on anecdotal evidence. The purpose of this review was to systematically locate and review the empirical evidence behind providing advocacy services to survivors of intimate partner violence.
See more at The DV Evidence Project.
This paper examines the empirical studies of shelter effectiveness in the lives of abused women. This review includes studies of "shelter" in general, and does not address the specific programs offered within shelter (e.g., support groups, children's programs), which are the subject of separate research summaries.
See more at The DV Evidence Project.
Includes a compilation of programs used by responding agencies including location, target audience, description, evaluation, and contact information.
Survey questions focused on two categories of information:
This paper examines the work of domestic violence programs within a "social and emotional well-being" framework. It first elucidates how domestic violence negatively impacts survivors' and their children's well- being, and which factors have been shown to restore this well-being over time. It then describes the Theory of Change that is at the foundation of domestic violence programs' work, and details how domestic violence programs creatively engage with survivors and their children to influence the factors known to promote their well-being.
