Domestic Violence Content Topic Results
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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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In Our Own Voice: African American Stories of Oppression, Survival and Recovery in Mental Health Systems
Publisher(s):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.
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Facilitating Support Groups Online
Publisher(s): This resource page from Futures Without Violence provides resources on how to move traditional support groups online, in addition to some traditional support group information and topics for online support groups.
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Social Responses to Gender-Based Violence
Publisher(s):This fact sheet addresses the need for an integrated, community response to the prevention of gender-based violence (GBV) and describes the social response to GBV in several categories including health care, working with perpetrators, media information and awareness campaigns, education and community networks and interventions.
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Deaf Community Accountability Wheel
Publisher(s):This wheel begins to demonstrate the ideal response, within the Deaf community, to the issue of domestic violence. Community opinion and a desire to make a difference can lead all members of the community to expect full accountability from the abuser by applying appropriate consequences.
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Responding to Elder Abuse
Publisher(s):This set 3 of training videos specific to elder abuse response address 1) community corrections professionals, 2) judges and court personnel, and 3) law enforcement. Other video packages available here include “In Their Own Words” and “Financial Abuse Specialist Team Video.”
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U Visa Interim Regulations Fact Sheet and Guidance
Publisher(s):This document presents information about U visa requirements.
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- NRCDV Publications
Celebrating 40 Years of FVPSA
This October marks 40 years since the passage of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA), the primary federal funding source dedicated to supporting emergency shelters and services for victims of domestic violence and their families.
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Mistreatment of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Elders
Publisher(s):This research brief synthesizes the latest available information and research relating to the mistreatment of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) elders.
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Help A Friend
Publisher(s):This information sheet provides tips to young people to help their peers who experience relationship violence.
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What Men Can Do & What Young Men Can Do
Publisher(s):These information sheets discuss some practical ways that men and young men (middle school aged) can be involved in stopping violence and changing social norms.
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Domestic Violence-Related Deaths in Maryland
Publisher(s):This page provides recent information and graphics on individuals who died in Maryland as a result of domestic violence.
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- NRCDV Publications
Support Group Activity to Learn from Victims
Publisher(s): This activity provides an opportunity to learn from victims who stay in contact.









