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An Online Resource Library on Domestic & Sexual Violence

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Outside In: A Man in the Movement

Over the past 3 decades the role of men in the anti-sexual violence movement has been a source of debate. This article shares experiences of one of the first men to be employed at rape crisis center and its effect on his worldview.

Reaching and Serving Teen Victims: A Practical Handbook

This manual is a resource for victim advocates/service providers that discusses adolescent development, the unique impact of victimization on teens, and strategies for assessing local teen victimization, creating effective outreach activities, making service environments teen-friendly, and interacting with teens in helpful and productive ways. The guide also includes guidance on parent and family involvement and mandatory reporting.

A Commentary on Religious Issues in Family Violence

Addresses some of the common religious concerns raised by people dealing with family violence (including child sexual abuse and incest) and illustrates ways of converting potential religious roadblocks into valuable resources.

Building Bridges, Creating Partnerships: Sexual Violence Prevention in Rural Communities

Betty Royce, in a symposium presentation in Denver, Colorado, suggested that there is a "hidden epidemic" of sexual assault in rural communities. Though some prevalence data suggests rural communities have less sexual violence than urban communities, some interpretations of the data suggest that there is a serious problem with sexual violence in rural America.

The 5 Steps to Protecting Our Children

The 5 Steps to Protecting Our Children is an introductory guide to help adults protect children from sexual abuse. Using an evidence-informed approach, these guidelines provide simple and practical actions you can take to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse.

Victim Services: Promising Practices in Indian Country

Programs in the following communities are highlighted:

  • Native Village of Emmonak
  • Big Lagoon Rancheria
  • Crow Creek Reservation
  • Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
  • Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
  • Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
  • The Navajo Nation
  • Oglala Lakota Nation
  • Osage Nation
  • Pawnee Nation
  • Turtle Mountain Chippewa
  • Rosebud Lakota Tribe

Somewhere to Turn: Making Domestic Violence Services Accessible to Battered Immigrant Women - A 'How To' Manual For Battered Women's Advocates and Service Providers

This manual addresses the dynamics of domestic violence in immigrant families; ways to create agency-wide cultural competency training programs; multicultural approaches to shelter protocol development; recruiting and hiring multicultural staff; foreign language needs and helpful interviewing techniques for client intake sessions and meetings; ways to do outreach and collaboration with immigrant communities; and, descriptions of model programs.

Violence Lessons

It highlights the impact witnessing their father's violence has on the son and daughter and describes ways the syblings seem to mimic their parent's former gender roles. It describes many symptoms the children evidence in response to abuse including nightmares, reinactments of the violence, devaluing the "victim parent", and aggressiveness.