Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

These materials highlight the work of one site in Virginia's Enhancing Services to Children and Youth demonstration project.

Technology has led to tremendous advancements in our society but has also brought more danger to victims of stalking and given more tools for stalkers to use. New technology has made it more difficult for prosecutors and judges to hold stalkers accountable for their crimes, and without an understanding of how technology is misused by stalkers to track and monitor their victims, many victims don't get the justice they deserve. This article addresses the tremendous impact of technology on stalking, especially within the context of intimate partner stalking.

This guide is designed for domestic violence survivors who are representing themselves, without an attorney, in court cases involving child custody. It includes chapters on finding an attorney, financial considerations, custody and divorce mediation, gathering evidence for trial, unsupervised visitation and safety planning, tips for dealing with custody evaluators, guidelines for selecting an expert witness, relocation, and many more.

This article describes two studies that use scientific criteria to distinguish accidental bruising from abusive bruising. The article also discusses barriers to intervening in or responding to abuse and emphasizes collaboration between prosecutors and victim-witness advocates.

This plan represents the first effort on this scale in North Carolina to address the factors that increase risk for perpetration of intimate partner violence and to promote factors which create healthy, sustainable families and communities. The structure of this document reflects our core commitment„to reach out to every North Carolinian with messaging about healthy relationships, with some specific focus on those groups which carry the heaviest burden of risk for being affected by violence.

As part of CDC’s DELTA program, this plan outlines the state of North Dakota’s plan to improve efforts to prevent intimate partner violence and sexual assault.

Rabbi Lisa Gelber discusses ways that rabbis can educate their congregations about domestic violence and support victims/survivors.

This free, online VetoViolence course provides educators with a basic knowledge of teen dating violence prevention.

This manual is designed to help violence prevention organizations hire an empowerment evaluator who will assist them in building their evaluation capacity through a learn-by-doing process of evaluating their own strategies.

Sexual violence against people in later life involves a broad range of offenses perpetrated against people age 60 and beyond. This four page document outlines specific information on this topic including how advocates can respond to the special needs of older sexual violence victims.

This guide outlines the process that The Network/La Red suggests for making domestic violence programs more LGBTQ- inclusive. Each of the chapters focuses on one aspect of that process in detail, offering ideas for implementation.

This fact sheet reviews research on women's experiences of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with a focus on gender-based similarities and differences.