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This document provides a brief overview of vicarious trauma and how to take care of yourself when working to address sexual violence.

Sexual violence is a complicated topic to understand. There are many fears, myths and stereotypes and that reporting on these topics is a difficult task. To assist journalists and media outlets in reporting on these topics, this packet offers key information on various topics related to sexual violence.

This one-page facts sheet provides information on bringing men into anti-sexual violence work and partnering with community-based mens organizations.

This guide provides guidance and practical tools for discussing healthy sexuality within the context of sexual violence for advocates, counselors, prevention educators, and activists.

This glossary is presented to assist advocates in understanding commonly used terms when reading, understanding and evaluating research. This glossary drew from several sources, which are listed at the end of this document. These resources can be helpful to advocates who wish to learn more about understanding and evaluating research.

This online resource collection offers information on the intersections of sexual violence and eating disorders. Recent research and practice efforts have shown links between sexual victimization during childhood or adolescence and developing an eating disorder. To provide more informed services, people working in anti-violence movements can review the resources in this online resource collection on sexual violence, trauma, and eating disorders.

With news media serving as a primary source of information for most adults in the United States, journalists are in a unique position to frame the public discussion on sexual assault. The toolkit, compiled with input from reporters, editors, publishers, and representatives from the Michigan Press Association (MPA), is designed to assist journalists in accurately and fairly covering incidents of sexual assault in their communities. The information was gathered specifically to facilitate access to information for reporters when covering a specific crime or public interest story.

This guide for media professionals includes suggestions such as avoiding stereotypes, placing sexual assault in a social context, and becoming educated about violence against women and sexual violence in general when reporting on a sexual assault case.

Victims want to see justice at work. They want to hear counsel's arguments and view the reactions of the judge, jury, and defendant. Most state victims' rights constitutional amendments and statutory victims' bills of rights give victims the right to be present during proceedings.

The paper provides policy recommendations for strengthening the Act's response to victims of sexual violence, including core services for victims.

This report represents the culmination of CALCASA's year-long strategic visioning process, which seeks to foster better understanding of the impact of sexual violence and encourage further collaboration to end sexual assault in California.

Initial research and impact of these measures on local workers, businesses and communities is also reviewed. Differences with living wage and our wage legislation are covered.

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This document describes the authorizing legislation and approved uses for RPE funding and provides examples of prevention activities from various states and territories.

This webpage is an excellent pathfinder and primer on the federal government's poverty guidelines.

Links to a fact sheet and additional background information are provided.

This article explains and critiques the official income-based poverty measure, and provides historical background.

This sheet shows that most children in low-income families have parents employed full-time and year round, and that many low-income parents are unable to find full-time, year-round work. It also addresses the concentration of low-income workers in the service industry.

This fact sheet reveals the effect on decreasing children's poverty rates as parents, even those working full time, increase their own education level. Implications for policy are discussed.

This paper contains practical guidelines and policy recommendations for pediatric health settings, early childhood programs, family support providers, police, and domestic violence agencies.

In 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 46.7 million people, or 14.8 percent of the nation’s population, lived below the official poverty level. This report presents data on the relationship between labor force activity and poverty status in 2014 for workers and their families. These data were collected in the 2015 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey.

Previous years' reports can be found in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' reports archives.

This annual report covers income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the U.S. Each main section includes highlights and discussion by race/ethnicity, nativity, age, and region. State level data is provided.

This annual report gives a statistical overview of numbers and percentages of children living in low-income and poor families. Highlighted demographics include age of children, race and ethnicity, and common misconceptions.