Domestic Violence Content Topic Results
The results displayed below have been grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections - containing our most highly valued resources - then by individual related materials. Refine your search by category, types, author and/or publisher using the options provided. Sort by date published, date added, or alphabetically. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
Results displayed are grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections then by individual related materials. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
January 2003
A Practical Guide to Evaluating Domestic Violence Coordinating Councils
Publisher(s):This is a manual that provides practical strategies for the evaluation of domestic violence coordinating councils, task forces and committees in order to make the process of evaluation easier.
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- General Material
- General Material
January 2003
Promoting Prevention, Targeting Teens: An Emerging Agenda to Reduce Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):Provides an analysis of domestic violence prevention efforts and presents recommendations for promising approaches. Strategies to close gaps in efforts to effectively prevent IPV in the lives of adolescents and young adults are identified.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 2003
Circles of Healing: A Support Group Curriculum for Abused Christian Women
Publisher(s): A three-session support group curriculum for abused Christian women. Developed by the Domestic Violence Awareness Task Force of the Office of Peace and Justice, Catholic Diocese of Richmond, VA.
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- General Material
January 2003
Elimination of Violence Against Women in Partnership with Men
Publisher(s):This document has two papers and an inventory of organizations and initiatives that engage men in VAW prevention. These resources were prepared for a sub-regional training workshop.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 2003
God's Reconciling Love: A Pastor's Handbook on Domestic Violence
Publisher(s): This much-needed handbook includes basic information about domestic violence, theological reflections, referral resources, and concrete suggestions for a compassionate Christian response to abuse in the home.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
January 2003
Developing Culturally-Relevant Responses to Domestic Abuse: Asha Family Services, Inc.
Publisher(s):Documents the development and growth of the first and only recognized culturally-specific family violence intervention and prevention program in Wisconsin which employs methods specific to serving African American families.
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- General Material
January 2003
Distracted by Drama: How California Newspapers Portray Intimate Partner Violence
Publisher(s):The publication describes the results of a study analyzing how violence is reported in two nationally prominent CA newspapers during the course of a year. Findings of the study are described in detail to reveal how contemporary reporting portrays IPV.
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- General Material
January 2003
The Social Norms Approach to Violence Prevention
Publisher(s):Describes an approach that seeks to engage men as allies by creating campaign messages that validate men's hidden feelings and beliefs in order to foster an environment where speaking out against violence against women is socially acceptable
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- Training Tools
- General Material
January 2003
Enough and yet Not Enough: An Educational Resource Manual on Domestic Violence Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities in Washington State
Publisher(s):This educational resource manual on domestic violence advocacy for persons with disabilities was developed to enhance the skills of community based domestic violence advocates.
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- General Material
December 2002
Battering Victimization Among a Probability-Based Sample of Men Who Have Sex With Men
Publisher(s): This study measured the prevalence of battering victimization (i.e., experience of psychological/symbolic, physical, and sexual battering) among men who have sex with men (MSM) and identified characteristics of these men.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
December 2002
Women's Experiences of Abuse as a Risk Factor for Incarceration
Publisher(s):Violence perpetrated against women and girls increases their risk of arrest and incarceration; this paper examines the intersections of violence that are forcing abused girls and women into the criminal justice system not as victims, but as offenders.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
December 2002
Domestic Abuse in Later Life
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
Nearly 77 million people more than a quarter of the total US population are age 50 or older (US Census Bureau 2000). So there must be many victims of domestic violence in later life, correct? A question that this document explores.