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This 26-page guide contains a general overview of sexual violence information, with special information pertaining to victims with disabilities.

This publication is written for men and women who have survived sexual assault in prisons, jails, or other forms of detention. It offers general information about sexual abuse as well as information about the healing process.

This safety plan is a self-help plan for immigrant victims of domestic violence.

This resource focuses on the impact that homelessness has on children, especially for those who have experienced sexual, physical and/or emotional abuse or are in environments where this abuse is occurring. The issue addresses the need for early intervention and provides clinicians with tips on identifying signs of trauma in homeless children as well as when and how to intervene.

This article presents clinical guidelines on routine screening for domestic violence by primary health care providers. Appendices include a glossary of terms, suggested screening questions, and a sample domestic violence screening documentation form.

The guidelines are designed to assist health care providers from multiple settings and in various professional disciplines in addressing domestic violence victimization, including assessment, documentation, intervention and referral information.

This document highlights the need for child health care providers to become actively involved in domestic violence prevention and provides recommendations for regular and universal screening for domestic violence in child health care settings.

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This document is one in a series of 3 guides designed to help battered women and their children in rural communities. The booklet contains information for faith leaders on how to talk and offer support to someone who is being abused by providing: 1) an explanation about domestic violence in general, 2) information about services available to battered women and their children through local programs, 3) tips to help keep victims safe and 4) a promise that battered women and their children don't have to struggle alone with violence in their lives.

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The guideline was "designed to assist clinicians by providing an analytical framework for the evaluation and treatment of patients, and is not intended either to replace a clinician's judgment or to establish a protocol for all patients with a particular condition."

The document provides recommendations for individual clinicians in addition to priority aims and suggested measures for health care systems. For highlights from this set of guidelines, please see the ICSI Summary.

For more information, contact BISCMI: 4925 Packard Road; Ann Arbor, MI 48108-1521; Phone: (313) 971-9781 Ext. 427; Fax: (313) 971-2730; E-mail: adacss@aol.com

A secondary goal is to expand the debate about innovative batterer intervention approaches to include criminal justice personnel who work with batterers daily and criminal justice policymakers who are concerned with domestic violence.

Thhis document provides information on trafficking, federal laws that prohibit trafficking, and the services that are available for victims of trafficking.

"This manual discusses the background of the T visa, suggests points to consider in evaluating a client's eligibility for the T visa, evaluates the statute and regulations, and offers step by step instruction on preparing a T application for consideration by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service."

The document offers a definition of trafficking and suggests how and where one might find a victim of sexual trafficking. The guide also addresses reporting procedures for both the general public and mandated reporters, and concludes by describing the services available to victims of trafficking.

Contents include basic information and definitions, an overview of benefits available to victims of trafficking, relevant laws, tips and questions to consider when working with victims, a review of the role of domestic violence centers in responding to the issue, and additional resources and tips for advocacy. Although the booklet does include Florida-specific information, it contains information that can be utilized in many communities across the US.

This document also discusses the step-by-step process of forming a team - who should participate, writing a mission statement, writing a protocol, dealing with confidentiality, how to deal with conflict and promote teamwork, and periodic evaluation of the MDT.

This newsletter provides information about the physical, sexual and emotional trauma experienced by homeless individuals and gives guidelines and tools for primary care physicians and mental health providers who are treating the homeless.

The following recommendations are presented in this document:

An adaptation of the Power & Control Wheel, this illustration describes abusive tactics that batterers use to control their victims, focusing on how they may be experienced by battered immigrant and refugee women.

This article explores reasons for the systemic omission of women with disabilities from mainstream research and from services addressing non-disabled women's experiences.

The guide includes the following:

• So This is Your First Take Back the Night: Who to Talk to, Who to Meet With and Who to Ask for Help
• The Planning Committee and What it Does
• If you Build It, Will They Come: How to Get People to Attend
• You've Planned It, People are Coming...Now What?
• The Plethora of Ideas Section
• List of Songs and Chants
• Final Checklist

This issue presents an overview of resources and articles that provide insight to those seeking to understand sexual violence utilizing the public health model.

This fact sheet addresses the need for an integrated, community response to the prevention of gender-based violence (GBV) and describes the social response to GBV in several categories including health care, working with perpetrators, media information and awareness campaigns, education and community networks and interventions.