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There are many reasons to prepare your health for an emergency. This webpage offers guidance on how to take preparedness actions in the case of a public health emergency.

This tip sheet gives basic recommendations for working with older survivors of abuse.

Dating violence and sexual assault disproportionately affect teens and young adults. Hundreds of thousands of young people are experiencing dating abuse, sexual assault, and stalking every year. This publication from LoveIsRespect offers key considerations for service providers working with teen survivors of dating violence and sexual assault, including barriers to accessing services.

Because survivor privacy is so critical to safety, several federal laws include privacy and confidentiality provisions and most states prohibit the disclosure of victim information. This toolkit is a collection of information and resources on the confidentiality and privacy obligations for programs that serve survivors.

This toolkit teaches twelve skills necessary for effective communication: The Win/Win Approach, The Creative Response, Empathy, Appropriate Assertiveness, Co-operative Power, Managing Emotions, Willingness to Resolve, Mapping the Conflict, and more.

Whether visible to outside observers or not, social risks are real and significant to the individual battered woman.

This Applied Research paper examines both single- and mixed-gender rape prevention and risk reduction programs, and provides suggestions for practitioners to design, implement, and evaluate programs.

Highlights include: 'On the Road:' Learning From the Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence Featuring Women of Color-led Initiatives: A Site Visit with Spirits of Hope Coalition Poems: My Innocence & Counting Survivor Advocacy in the Digital Age Domestic Violence and Animal Abuse: Addressing Survivors' Concerns for Their Pets

This page provides a bibliography of resilience research articles of particular relevance for children exposed to DV. Links to full text are available for some of the articles.

This resource provides tips for an older survivor to consider when planning for their safety.

This 26-page guide contains a general overview of sexual violence information, with special information pertaining to victims with disabilities.

This exercise explores different qualities of advocacy for victims and children and which support a victim-defined approach.