Domestic Violence Content Topic Results

A critical new interdenominational resource for Christian pastors and counselors seeking to prevent domestic violence. A must-have, step-by-step resource for every Christian minister who provides premarital counseling. Assists clergy in discussing domestic violence in the context of premarital counseling.

This brochure is designed to raise awareness of services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans communities.

This document discusses various levels of prevention and focuses on primary prevention strategies for intimate partner violence. It also explores health care professionals' role in primary prevention of intimate partner violence.

This manual suggests strategies for organizing, how to work together as a group, how to ensure that the group stays together, how to start an agency to provide culturally specific services, and how to negotiate and improve the system.

This article urges attorneys and advocates for survivors to consider using civil protection orders as a tool for accessing economic justice.

This review lists state laws and recent legislative proposals addressing housing-related issues faced by survivors of domestic and sexual assault, including prohibitions on housing discrimination, defenses to eviction, termination of leases, and penalties for seeking police assistance. Links from the document take the reader to actual text of the laws and legislative proposals. Advocates will find this state law and legislative review helpful for possible state-level housing-related legislative actions and ideas.

This instrument is a 15-minute survey that is a comprehensive and reliable measure of physician preparedness to manage IPV patients. It can also be used to measure the effectiveness of IPV educational programs.

The document highlights and synthesizes issues and concerns related to addressing VAW globally. Promising practices from different countries to address VAW in areas of law, service provision, and prevention are included. The document concludes with recommendations for action in seven key strategic areas.

This Q&A document explains the key housing provisions of VAWA 2005, including housing-related grant programs, amendments to public housing and section 8 regarding eviction defense, eligibility, and portability, HMIS changes, and new planning requirements.

Developed based on interviews with Deaf survivors of domestic violence, this power and control wheel highlights some of the dynamics of abuse when the abuser is a hearing individual.

This document discusses the intersection between DV and TBI, lists symptoms and recommendations for working with survivors with TBI, and offers a screening tool to aid in determining if survivors should be seen by a doctor for further evaluation.

In this interview, Julia Perilla presents a community psychologist’s perspective on the definition of domestic violence, describes the importance of understanding the cultural, historical and economic context in which domestic violence occurs, the many ways in which violence can be experienced, and how these forms of violence are linked.