Collaboration / Bridge Building Content Topic Results
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
September 2001
Safe and Affordable Housing
Publisher(s):Highlights include descriptions of the efforts of a state welfare agency, a community-based domestic violence program, and two state domestic violence coalitions toward improving housing opportunities for battered women.
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- General Material
August 2001
Working Effectively with the Police: A Guide for Battered Women's Advocates
Publisher(s):This article highlights information advocates need in order to work collaboratively and effectively with police officers and other law enforcement personnel. The author discusses the changes police officers have made regarding when and how they arrest, investigate, write reports, and how they work with and support prosecutors and victim advocates.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
April 2001
Collaboration a Key Factor in Fostering Economic Opportunity
Publisher(s):Features articles on an Economic Action Program developed in Missouri, and, how in Pennsylvania and Alabama, some strategic collaboration with state welfare departments creates options for battered women.
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- General Material
March 2001
The CALCASA Strategic Forum Report: A Vision to End Sexual Assault
Publisher(s):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.
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- Training Tools
- General Material
January 2001
Seeking Safety: A Treatment Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse
Seeking Safety is an empirically studied, integrative treatment approach developed to help people attain safety from trauma/PTSD and substance abuse. This website provides implementation tools, sample topics, research summaries, articles, and assessment tools related to the program.
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- General Material
January 2001
A Lifetime Commitment to Violence Prevention: The Alameda County Blueprint
Publisher(s):This Blueprint is a framework to identify the range of roles and partnerships in which stakeholders can engage and activities that will prevent violence in all its forms, including child and elder abuse, intimate partner violence, date rape and sexual assault, suicide, youth and community violence, and hate violence.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
December 2000
Recommendations for Training TANF and Child Support Enforcement Staff about Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):This paper provides an overview of legal and policy context for domestic violence training, presents suggestions for effective teaching, and defines the concept of a "basic response to domestic violence."
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- General Material
November 2000
Cultural Issues Affecting Domestic Violence Service Utilization in Ethnic and Hard to Reach Populations
This comprehensive report describes different cultural issues that may affect how different populations can and do use domestic violence services.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
October 2000
Welfare, Poverty, and Abused Women: New Research and its Implications
Publisher(s):This summary of studies on domestic violence and TANF recipients explores their physical and mental health and work experience. It focuses on interference from their partners, barriers to work, the Family Violence Option, and the Child Support Exemption.
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- General Material
July 2000
Safety and Sobriety: Best Practices in Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse
Publisher(s):Domestic Violence/Substance Abuse Interdisciplinary Task Force, Illinois Department of Human Services
This manual outlines procedures that human service professionals can follow when they are facing clients living with both domestic violence and substance abuse, and provides guidance for forging collaborations between agencies.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
June 2000
Expanding Solutions for Domestic Violence and Poverty: What Battered Women with Abused Children Need from Their Advocates
Publisher(s):This paper uses examples from the child welfare system to raise questions about the limitations of current DV advocacy strategies for low-income women. The paper challenges the U.S. traditional battered women's movement to expand its solutions.
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- General Material
March 2000
Engaging Advocates and Other Victim Service Providers in the Community Management of Sex Offenders
Publisher(s):The purpose of this brief is to provide information, ideas, and resources that will encourage agencies managing sex offenders in the community to consider the benefits and feasibility of involving victim advocates and other victim service providers in their work.