Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

This statewide plan was based on a systematic 10-step planning process called “Getting to Outcomes.” The goal was to create and implement evidence-based strategies that prevent first-time perpetration of intimate partner violence.

This document reviews promising initiatives to promote gender equality and the effectiveness of such approaches in reducing VAW. These include school-based programs, community interventions such as microfinance, public awareness campaigns, and initiatives that engage men.

This study reveals that victims of intimate partner violence are likely to suffer certain types of fractures around the eye or upper face, which differ from facial injuries sustained by other types of assaults or accidents. These results, in conjunction with other presenting circumstances, such as delay in presentation, can assist the surgeon treating patients with maxillofacial injury in recognizing intimate partner violence.

A comprehensive training program that promotes safe, healthy relationships and supports teens in taking action to overcome violence and abuse.

Through the stories of six abused women and expert information from Jewish, Roman Catholic and Protestant leaders, Broken Vows addresses how religious teachings have been misused to perpetuate abuse and how religious communities can work proactively to end domestic violence.

In this audio presentation, Coach Ehrmann discusses the influence of sports in the construction of masculinity and the role of athletes in the prevention of violence against women.

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.

This toolkit offers a comprehensive, user-friendly program tool for organizations interested in mobilizing communities to prevent violence against women and HIV infection. Included in this toolkit are practical resources, activities, and monitoring and assessment tools for local activism, media and advocacy, communication, and training materials.

This manual, a technical assistance tool in developing primary prevention initiatives at local sexual and domestic violence agencies, was intended to serve as an organizing philosophy rather than an irrefutable prescription for prevention work.

The ultimate purpose of Florida's intimate partner violence prevention plan is to work toward the shared vision: for the people of Florida to have non-violent and respectful intimate partner relationships. To achieve this vision, the plan works to prevent the occurrence of intimate partner violence by identifying and removing its causes at all levels of society, including by promoting healthy relationships. This plan describes needed change goals to work toward the vision over the next eight years and lays out a roadmap of strategies and tasks to achieve change statewide.

This document discusses the role of cultural and social norms in promoting VAW and presents promising interventions aiming to change these norms. The document also identifies challenges in rigorously evaluating the effectiveness of such interventions.

This manual by the Minnesota-based organization Mending the Sacred Hoop is a guide for how Native communities can develop Batterer Intervention Programs from the framework that men’s violence against women is based on a belief system rooted in the dynamics of power and control.