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This Conversation Guide is designed to help you increase your staff's ability to support survivors when trauma affects interaction and communication.

Gender Analysis is a tool that empowers individuals and communities to identify and understand how differently gendered people are affected by systems of power in cultural, economic, social, civil, legal, political, religious, racial, and ethnic situations. Why does the National Council of Churches support gender analysis? As an ecumenical movement, we join together in acts of radical love, healing, and justice-making with hope for equity, wholeness, and abundant life for all.

This webinar will guide clergy and faith based leaders on how to effectively preach about domestic violence in their faith communities.

"There are so many reasons why we preachers do not preach about violence against women and girls. The main reason is that we are afraid. We don't want to say the wrong thing or scare anyone away or offend anyone. So instead we just say nothing...We hope that someone else will preach about it." -Elizabeth J.A. Siwo-Okundi, during the 16 Days of Activism.

This guide for purchase is geared toward providing advocates strategies and suggestions for effective collaborations with religious communities. This guide is designed to: Educate advocates about how to work effectively with women from a wide variety of religious and spiritual traditions; Offer concrete strategies for making domestic violence programs sensitive and welcoming to women from diverse faith backgrounds; and Provide suggestions for effective collaboration between domestic violence programs and religious communities.

Through the stories of six abused women and expert information from Jewish, Roman Catholic and Protestant leaders, Broken Vows addresses how religious teachings have been misused to perpetuate abuse and how religious communities can work proactively to end domestic violence.

This page describes the concepts and components of the criminal legal system from a critical perspective.

This benchbook is designed to guide lower court judges in the handling of sex abuse crimes.

This training curriculum and resource guide for advocates, police, social-service providers, and other violence-against-women professionals and practitioners provides information about community-policing approaches to reducing and preventing violence against women.

The Existe Ayuda Toolkit provides a variety of resources and information to help service providers in working with Spanish-speaking populations. This project aims to increase cultural competence and accessibility of services for Latin@s impacted by sexual violence.

Emily May, Jeff Matsushita, Annie Lyles and Carolina Guzman share perspectives and strategies for involving the voices of the many varied communities we seek to reach in efforts to prevent and respond to sexual and domestic violence.

The participants in these four video podcasts discussed their experiences at the Women of Color Networks 2012 Institute and the approaches used within their organizations to promoting collective empowerment, leadership, and ending institutional racism.

This page offers resources and guidance for beginning and leading a support group for survivors of intimate partner sexual violence. It provides background information on the issue, general planning tips and tools for evaluation and follow-up.

This presentation highlights the importance of faith for many domestic violence survivors, and the power of engaging faith leaders in domestic violence prevention and social change. This presentation also includes information about Safe Haven's resources in engaging and strengthening faith leaders in domestic violence prevention.

This manual provides information and guidance to faith leaders about their role in increasing safety for domestic violence survivors, encouraging abusers to get help, and taking a lead in educating and opening up discussions with survivors on domestic violence.

This training presentation highlights the important roles of pastors and community leaders in preventing and responding to domestic violence and includes example of a successful training strategy used with church leaders.

The Power and Control Wheel was developed from the experience of battered women in Duluth who had been abused by their male partners. It has been translated into over 40 languages and has resonated with the experience of battered women worldwide. This page includes various adaptations and translations into a multitude of languages.

Angela Rose, Founder and Executive Director of the Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE), gives tactics for speaking with victims of teen dating violence and sexual assault and discusses strategies for reducing the incidence of these crimes in the United States.

This online video series addresses the needs of children exposed to violence and victimization. The series includes a public awareness video in which victims discuss the effects of the violence and trauma they experienced; and three topic-specific videos detailing evidence-based treatment, child advocacy strategies, and community-based approaches to help those affected.

In this podcast recording, Bari Rosenbluth and Barbara Ball of Safe Place describe their efforts to prevent sexual violence through youth leadership programs, community partnerships, and policy advocacy.

In this podcast, Alex Leslie discusses the goals and components of Youth 360, a program developed by Cleveland Rape Crisis Center that builds competence in speaking up, speaking out, and preventing dating and sexual violence.

In this podcast recording, Bari Rosenbluth and Barbara Ball of Safe Place describe their efforts to prevent sexual violence through youth leadership programs, community partnerships, and policy advocacy.

This Applied Research paper provides a historical and research overview of Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation, identifies strategic issues for advocates working with victims, and offers guidelines to improve courts’ treatment of these issues.

This Applied Research paper reviews both international and U.S.-based policy efforts to promote sexual abuse prevention and offers considerations for policy development in communities and organizations.

This Applied Research paper reviews available evidence on the effectiveness of gender violence prevention programs on college campuses, explores various models of campus-based prevention programming, and discusses the implications of emerging themes from the literature for practice.

This Applied Research paper provides research findings concerning violence against pregnant and postpartum women, discusses some of the strengths and limitations of these studies, and concludes with comments concerning the implications of this work for practice and research.