Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

The Ohio Domestic Violence Network recognizes that Prevention is an emerging priority for forwarding changes that reduce and eliminate intimate partner violence and all other forms of family and sexual violence. This toolkit was developed to be a central source of information on prevention work for those working on the individual, organizational, statewide and/or national levels.

This exercise provides an opportunity to read material about advocacy with victims in contact, and then talk about the needs of victims in contact and our advocacy with them.

These fact sheets provide information and practical tips to domestic violence advocates on working with survivors who are experiencing trauma symptoms and/or mental health conditions.

This online directory includes resources in 110 languages and information on domestic violence agencies in every country in the world.

This guide provides historical highlights regarding African-American survivors and mental health treatment in America; explores the themes shared in the collected oral histories; provides strategies for using history projects as a tool for personal and community healing and social change; and includes resources to assist you in starting your own history project.

This fact sheet makes a case through statistics and information for why employers should prioritize addressing domestic violence.

"Couple counseling is beneficial to work on marital problems. Wife battering, however, is a violent criminal act, not a marital problem.”

This fact sheet presents information on how VAWA has improved criminal justice response to gender-based violence, improved access to services, and created positive changes.

This chapter gives an introduction to domestic violence and the cultural and linguistic barriers that affect immigrant survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

This poem by Carlos Andrés Gómez features a man's experiences as a victim of domestic violence.

The U.N.'s general Recommendation No. 19 from 1992 was historic as it clearly framed violence against women as a form and manifestation of gender-based discrimination, used to subordinate and oppress women. 25 years later, General Recommendation No. 35 elaborates on the gender-based nature of this form of violence, building on the work of the Committee and other international human rights mechanisms, as well as developments at national, regional and international levels.

This document describes some of the tactics used to abuse immigrant women. These include emotional abuse, economic abuse, sexual abuse, using coercion and threat, intimidation, isolation, and blaming women for inciting violence.