Bystander / Upstander Content Topic Results
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May 2025
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Impact of IPV/HT - Identifying and Responding to IPV/HT Series
Publisher(s):This session introduces healthcare professionals to the realities of human trafficking, emphasizing how force, fraud, coercion, trauma, and online recruitment can affect survivors and how trafficking may present in healthcare settings.
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July 2024
Supporting Survivor Health + Wellbeing: Strategies for Advocates
Publisher(s):This comprehensive toolkit for advocates provides practical strategies to enhance physical and behavioral health (including mental health and substance use), access to care, and overall well-being for survivors of violence and their children.
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October 2023
Guide for Emotional Support
Publisher(s):A practical guide that helps domestic violence advocates provide trauma-informed emotional support and develop personalized emotional support plans with survivors. Available in multiple languages, including Spanish, French, Arabic, Urdu, Chinese, Korean, Hindi, and Tagalog.
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October 2023
Guide for Emotional Support
Publisher(s):A practical guide that helps domestic violence advocates provide trauma-informed emotional support and develop personalized emotional support plans with survivors. Available in multiple languages, including Spanish, French, Arabic, Urdu, Chinese, Korean, Hindi, and Tagalog.
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November 2022
Military Family Advocacy Program | Domestic Abuse
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May 2022
Everyone Deserves Love and Respect: What Abuse can Look Like for Neurodivergent People
Publisher(s): A resource that helps neurodivergent individuals and therapists recognize signs of abusive relationships while addressing the unique barriers autistic people and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities may face when seeking support.
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March 2022
Signs of an Abusive Relationship
Publisher(s):A trauma-informed guide that helps neurodivergent individuals and therapists recognize abuse in relationships by addressing the unique barriers, warning signs, and support needs experienced by people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and other neurodivergent survivors.
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May 2020
An NFL player says United ignored his reports of sexual assault. The problem's bigger than him.
Publisher(s): This article highlights how racial stereotypes and cultural stigma can silence Black male survivors, exposing broader societal disbelief and institutional failure to respond to male victimization.
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April 2020
Adult Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Are We Really Helping?
Publisher(s):The webinar examines the barriers adult male survivors of childhood sexual abuse face when disclosing their experiences and argues that disclosure should be understood as a relational, non-linear process rather than a simple act of telling.
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January 2018
Healing from Abusive Relationships Booklet
Publisher(s):This booklet is a comprehensive guide on the warning signs of unhealthy or abusive relationships, resources available to youth who are experiencing abusive or unhealthy relationships, legal recourse, and best practices for young people to heal.
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December 2017
Confronting challenges in supporting men sexually abused in childhood
Publisher(s):This resource focuses on improving support for men who have experienced childhood sexual abuse through trauma- and survivor-informed, gender-responsive, culturally appropriate, accessible, and community-based services.
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January 2017
Guide for Supervisors: Information for Supervisors on Preventing and Responding to Domestic and Sexual Violence, and Stalking in the Workplace
Publisher(s): This guide advises supervisors on how to handle situations where a supervisor believes an employee is a victim of domestic violence, as well as where he or she believes an employee is a perpetrator of domestic violence, and what to do when one employee has a protection order against another.