Material Listing

This collection links to 24 documents, prologue, endnotes, bibliography and related links including:

This article from the Victim Policy Pipeline bulletin provides an overview of the evolution of spousal rape laws through history.

This document provides a detailed timeline of events related to the battered women's movement ranging from the year 753 B.C. through 1999.

This article from the Frontline Newsletter describes the history and development of Take Back the Night rallies, marches, and gatherings in various countries.

Describes Illinois history, provides encouragement for moving forward, and includes a timeline of accomplishments in the anti-rape movement.

Highlights include:

'On the Road:' Learning From the Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence
Featuring Women of Color-led Initiatives: A Site Visit with Spirits of Hope Coalition
Poems: My Innocence & Counting
Survivor Advocacy in the Digital Age
Domestic Violence and Animal Abuse: Addressing Survivors' Concerns for Their Pets

Contents:

1. Planning Perspective
2. Evolution of Funding Instability
3. Consequences of Funding Instability: Victims
4. Consequences of Funding Instability: Direct Services
5. Agenda for Change

Articles include:

This article was published in the series Reproductive Health and Rights: Reaching the Hardly Reached by PATH publications. The article provides a general overview of the issue of trafficking, describes obstacles to reaching trafficked persons, and provides solutions for responding to the needs of victims of trafficking through outreach and services.

This Bulletin provides an anecdotal look at how U.S. SANE programs are impacting sexual assault victims, service practice, and communities.

Articles include:

It reports on current research suggesting that victims experience a variety of negative mental health effects from sexual assault, including post-traumatic stress symptoms. It describes how rape survivors may struggle with how family and friends are reacting to the assault and may have to cope with secondary victimization experiences they encounter in some post-rape help seeking. It highlights a wide variety of issues rape survivors may present in therapy.

Routinely asking all individuals about accommodation needs gives the program information that enables them to provide appropriate accessible services. The protocol includes a recommended policy and procedures that cover initial contact and crisis intervention, providing ongoing services, a sample of screening questions and a reprint from Northwest Justice Project on signing documents when physically unable.

The report contains a review of relevant literature as well as information on best practices.

This resource also includes information on issues of special consideration, including: immediate victims, comorbid conditions, pregnancy and gynecological care, male patients, patients with disabiltities, and pediatric and adolescent patients.

Advocates are guided by certain principles in our support of survivors. This publication includes some Principles of Advocacy that are intended to provide a basis for a consistent advocacy response when working with Native women. It addresses issues of sovereignty, confidentiality, traditional healing ways, and includes an advocacy checklist and advocate resources.

This fact sheet provides information about the connection between sexual assault and substance abuse, and lists statistics on the issue along with citations.

The manual details considerations and recommendations for service provision, benefits available to victims of trafficking, legal issues, criminal prosecution of traffickers, working with the media, potential funding sources, and additional anti-trafficking resources.

This issue not only talks about what organizations can do to develop and/or enhance a healthy workplace, but what individuals themselves can do to create balance in their work and personal lives.

Articles Include:

• S.U.R.V.I.V.A.L. Guide for the Compassionate Caregiver
• Finding Time for Yourself
• One Adult Survivor's Journey Toward Self Care
• Stress Management
• Why People Stay

Contents include:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Lay of the Land: Background Information
• Chapter 2 The Foundation: Advocacy Principles and Victim Rights
• Chapter 3 The Building Blocks: Overview of Military Response Systems
• Chapter 4 Tools for Advocacy
• Chapter 5 Strengthening the Structure: Systems Advocacy
• Chapter 6 Filling Your Toolbox: Resources and Contact Information
• Appendix

The wheel describes abusive tactics that batterers use to control their victims, focusing on how they may be experienced within the context of a relationship rooted in the military. Specific tactics are described in the wheel, including "Claiming Military/ Male Privilege."

This article from the Miles Foundation provides information about domestic violence in the military community, outlining the ways in which advocates can assist victims with safety, protection, rights, restitution, transition and accountability.

This document provides an overview of the problem of elder abuse among the Native American population. Challenges to providing services and current initiatives are also discussed.