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An Online Resource Library on Domestic & Sexual Violence
This field manual offers mental health and public health professionals information on disaster preparedness and recovery to assist disaster survivors. It describes survivor reactions, at-risk populations, counseling, referrals, and stress prevention and management.
Large-scale relief operations are not always best suited to meet the needs of those who are made most vulnerable by disaster, namely, women and their children. Women in communities must also be integral to designing and carrying out relief efforts.
The guides have since been adapted for use by other grantees and organizations that provide programs for victims of any type of crime.
The guides include:
"Adding Power to Our Voices is designed to help organizations involved in injury and violence prevention and response speak with a consistent voice to build the social and political will needed to save lives and reduce injuries. The basis of the Framing Guide is that the collective voice of many injury and violence professionals across several disciplines is much louder than that of an individual or single organization.
"We want a society where people can live to their full potential.'
Violence and abuse occur in all age groups, at all socioeconomic levels, and throughout all of society's structure. This paper reviews a sampling of the literature that supports the contention that violence and abuse lead to a significant increase in health care utilization and costs. Includes a graph that illustrates the conditions and health risk behaviors that are known or suspected to have a correlation with lifetime exposure to abuse.
