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This practice paper provides background information about domestic violence and describes options battered women need available to them in order to be safe and more economically independent.

This paper explores the impact of implementing the U.S. federal welfare law, PRWORA of 1996. It looks at how the use of the FVO and the federal block grant program, TANF, might effect battered women and their children.

Provides basic introduction to the U.S. federal welfare law, PRWORA of 1996 - provides information about this "welfare law" and its potential effects on battered women and their children.

This paper provides basic information about the WIA and how it can provide battered women and others with job training and related services so they can get jobs that pay enough to live on. The paper discusses key implementation issues to survivors.

This paper describes results from interviews with 55 women across six transitional housing supportive housing programs in a midwestern state. Women's recommendations for transitional housing are discussed.

This is a policy statement on the management of sex offenders that was adopted by the Board of Directors of the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence.

 This was written to provide domestic violence advocates with information and strategies to promote the use of HUD's new welfare-to-work housing vouchers as a resource to assist battered women receiving public assistance. The paper identifies barriers faced by many battered women as they attempt to move from welfare to work and identifies how the new voucher program can help women overcome these obstacles.

This document explains the intersection of domestic violence and homelessness and briefly summarizes the housing-related provisions of VAWA2005. A more detailed companion document is referenced herein, under ïOne Strike.Í

This paper is a brief advocacy guide on two sets of HUD proposed regulations issued in April and May 1999. Both sets of regulations involved directives urging public housing authorities to have preferences for victims of domestic violence. While the issue of the 1999 regulations is over for now, the paper is relevant by offering basic information about continuing issues such as why battered women would want to get in a housing program as soon as possible and how to advocate with public housing authorities in their annual and five-year planning processes.

Providing congressional findings, public housing and section 8 housing choice voucher protections, McKinney-Vento HMIS amendments, federal housing planning requirements modifications, and grant programs explicitly relevant to DV survivors.

Available from: http://thomas.loc.gov/

This report provides an assessment of the US Military Academy & US Naval Academy’s ability to address sexual harassment and assault within their institutions. It provides task force recommendations on how academies can better address these issues.

This publication deals with the topic of sex offender management and provides important information to coalitions on how to respond to this issue.

This law, also know as Public Law 106-386, was enacted in October 2000. It provides protection and assistance for victims of trafficking and includes the authorization of educations and public awareness campaigns as part if its prevention measures. This law also helps to strengthen the prosecution and punishment of traffickers.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the TVPA, the goals of the TVPA to prevent human trafficking, protect victims and prosecute traffickers, and a brief overview of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003.

This fact sheet provides a very brief overview of DNA - what it is and where it can be found at a crime scene.

This resource discusses sexual violence as a serious public health problem with extensive short- and long-term health consequences. It identifies concepts and strategies that may be used as a foundation for planning, implementing, and evaluating sexual violence prevention activities.

This fact sheet provides information from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that outlines sexual harassment as discrimination.

The statement addresses questions about how frequently sex offenders re-offend, what kind of treatment is effective with sex offenders, and if treatment is sufficient in reducing a sex offenders risk to the community.

This resource addresses ways in which service providers can get involved with developing public policy without violating nonprofit lobbying regulations.

It also addresses why the law was enacted, why it is controversial, amendments to the law, which states are affected, its effect in criminal and civil actions, and the limitations of the law.

The law 'provides for the analysis of the incidents and effects of prison rape in Federal, State, and local institutions and provides information, resources, recommendations, and funding to protect individuals from prison rape.'

The report gives a detailed analysis of how the Philadelphia archdiocese covered up sexual abuse by priests, and then moved the priests to knowingly allow them to continue to sexually abuse children, while protecting the church from scandal and lawsuits. Although the grand jury was unable to bring any formal charges against any priest or the archdiocese, they recommended eliminating the statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse. They also recommend other changes in the law to allow for easier prosecution of church bodies in the future.

They believe 'that effective public policy requires the careful balancing of criminal justice sanctions which are designed both to enhance public safety and to punish criminal acts, with providing interventions.' ATSA sees a difference between juvenile and adult sex offenders and they offer 5 recommendations for addressing the legal management of these juveniles.

Some of the steps listed include the need for the church to institute a zero-tolerance policy for sexual abuse by clergy, the need for an apology to all victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, and the need to compensate victims.

For the purposes of this policy, confidentiality or confidential reporting is defined as allowing a member of the DoD to report a sexual assault to specified individuals. This reporting option gives the member access to medical care, counseling and victim advocacy, without initiating investigative process.