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A one-page sheet includes the findings, executive summary, and recommendations. The piece is an update to a more extensive report issued in April 2003, Credit Counseling in Crisis listed below. The update lists states that have licensing and registration laws. The report also describes survey results of an 8-state survey (Arizona, Idaho, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York) covering numbers of licensing applications, rejections, enforcement actions, and staffing.

This page addresses fraudulent or abusive lending practices in the mortgage market, commonly referred to as predatory lending, offering a state-by-state review of laws concerning predatory mortgage lending.

This section of the Code of Federal Regulations, states the rules on request of credit information of a spouse or former spouse.  A creditor can not use information on the other spouse or former spouse of the applicant, except in specific instances of joint use, liability, or reliance on collateral or that spouseÍs income.

This guide is intended to provide sexual violence advocates with information about child sexual abuse prevention programs that target adults. It will provide information about the basics of such programs and an overview of evaluation research for these programs. This guide is intended to assist advocates and prevention educators in selecting or designing prevention programs, and to provide evidence to support them in advocating for these programs to funders and the community at large.

Advocates may find this manual helpful for capacity building on the CRA and for determining strategies for collaboration in their respective communities.

This expanded fact sheet provides an overview of child sexual abuse prevention and offers resources and answers the following questions: What is child sexual abuse? How common is child sexual abuse? Who are the victims of child sexual abuse? Who are the perpetrators? What are the warning signs that a child may be sexually abused? Risk factors for the perpetration of child sexual abuse? How can I reduce the risk of children being abused?

This is an excellent advocacy tool for survivors and advocates.

Advocates may find this document helpful as it is co-written by the company that promotes the FICO scoring system.

Relevant reports and studies are linked within the document making this document an efficient 'one-stop' reference tool.

This fact sheet provides a quick guide for obtaining free annual credit reports, identifies credit report scams to watch for, and provides more in depth instruction on what to do if information in a credit report is inaccurate or incomplete.

Credit repair companies often charge fees for things that individuals can easily do on their own. These companies may also promise to do things that cannot actually be done anyway.

Advocates may find this brochure helpful for community education as well as individual advocacy with survivors.

This information packet was developed for sexual violence prevention educators, advocates, and their allied partners in public health and other disciplines. The packet contains resources to support the prevention of child sexual abuse and draws from research on child sexual abuse prevention programming, child sexual abuse risk and protective factors, and the public health model of prevention.

Two major models of prevention are commonly used in strategic planning: the Public Health Model and the Ecological Model. This bulletin examines the two models.

This three-page fact sheet presents a brief overview of the bystander intervention approach to sexual violence prevention, key points about this type of intervention, evidence-based outcomes regarding the effectiveness of the approach and key resources for finding additional information about this model.

This report illustrates the results of a cross-national study based on in-depth interviews from both experts and average Americans on Sexual Violence. This study, supported by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center comprises the following three components: 1) an analysis of the discourse on sexual violence from expert interviews, 2) one-on-one cognitive interviews with Americans, and 3) a comparative analysis that “maps the gaps” between expert and lay understandings of this topic.

The guide provides statistics and references to reports, including ongoing studies of the credit reporting industry by the Fair Trade Commission.

Topics included are: describing what is in a credit report, explaining credit scores, access to credit reports, how individuals can get a copy of their reports, free annual credit reports, dealing with negative information and errors, uses of credit reports for marketing purposes, enforcing rights through lawsuits and government complaints, and describing investigative consumer reports for employment, insurance, and rental housing.

Advocates can get state and local information on rental costs in comparison to income.

This two page fact sheet offers information on the impact of housing costs, housing and various forms of oppression, and how advocates can help.

The first part of this report analyzes housing problems in comparison to food insecurity and lack of health insurance, for the purpose of raising awareness as to the enormity of the housing crisis (while emphasizing that the report should not be read to minimize the seriousness of the problems of food insecurity and lack of health care). The second part of the report reviews housing problems in more depth and is an excellent resource for talking point references regarding housing.

This two-page document offers information on curricula and manuals, online training, special journal editions, videos and websites.

This document lists questions to help guide an analysis of reforms and is based on Susan Schechter’s Women and Male Violence (1982).

This article explains how failing to address multiple oppressions of poor women of color jeopardizes the validity and legitimacy of the anti-violence movement.

The page is useful to underscore the importance of assessing policy for its effects on battered women and their families living in poverty and the need to provide relevant and respectful advocacy and resources.

It provides a rich inventory of strategies for use in mobilizing the public will through an integration of models of agenda building, social problem construction, issues management, social movements, media advocacy, and social capital. In addition, the paper provides cases and examples of public will campaigns directed at various social problems, along with criteria for evaluating these campaigns at various stages of a social problem's life cycle." Numerous case examples include a perspective on VAWA.