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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- Training Tools
- General Material
September 2011
Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education: What Domestic Violence Advocates Need to Know
Publisher(s):National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV), National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC)
This webinar explores questions such as: What is Healthy Marriage and Relationship (MRE) Education anyway? How have MRE programs worked with domestic violence coalitions and community-based domestic violence programs? What tools have been developed that might be helpful to our DV prevention efforts? Where are the opportunities for collaborative healthy relationship work going forward?
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- General Material
September 2011
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Employment Support: Tools for Practice
Publisher(s): This document is part of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, & Mental Health’s Creating Trauma-Informed Services Tipsheet Series and discusses how advocates can support survivors in obtaining and maintaining employment.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
September 2011
From the Front of the Room: A Survivor's Guide to Public Speaking
Publisher(s):This guide provides a basic overview of the issues that face survivors who desire to speak publicly about their experiences with intimate partner violence. It provides guidance for the survivor speaker to maximize their physical and emotional safety and ensure the overall success of the speaking engagement. This guide is designed to explore the journey of sharing their story with the public. See also From the Front of the Room: An Advocate's Guide to Help Prepare Survivors for Public Speaking.
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- General Material
September 2011
Opening "Doorways" to Safer Schools
Publisher(s):The Doorways program is a series of manuals targeting three key audiences: teachers, students and community members. These three groups can create a critical mass in schools that will bring about transformative, lasting change.
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- General Material
September 2011
We Can Do Better: Power and Control and Accountability Wheels for Male Aspiring Allies
These wheels, based on the Duluth Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP) model, provide a framework for explaining men’s abuse of power and control in work to address gendered violence. The author offers a model for accountable men’s work within anti-violence movements.
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- General Material
September 2011
Investigation of the Puerto Rico Police Department
Publisher(s):This report contains the findings of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division’s pattern and practice investigation of the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD). The investigation found troubling evidence that PRPD frequently failed to police sex crimes and incidents of domestic violence.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
September 2011
From the Front of the Room: An Advocate's Guide to Help Prepare Survivors for Public Speaking
Publisher(s):This guide provides a basic overview of the issues that face survivors who desire to speak publicly about their experiences with intimate partner violence. It provides guidance for both the survivor speaker and victim advocates seeking to maximize the survivor’s physical and emotional safety and ensure the overall success of the speaking engagement.
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- General Material
August 2011
Tips for Enhancing Emotional Safety
Publisher(s):This document is part of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, & Mental Health’s Creating Trauma-Informed Services Tipsheet Series and explains how domestic violence advocates can increase peoples’ emotional safety while they are participating in programming.
Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
August 2011
WEBINAR: Media Advocacy: Getting Our Issues in the News
Publisher(s):This session emphasizes how anti-violence advocates can work in partnership with traditional print and radio outlets to promote our message of anti-violence advocacy.
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- General Material
August 2011
Tips for Creating a Welcoming Environment
Publisher(s):This tip sheet gives recommendations about creating welcoming environments for people who have experienced domestic abuse and other traumatic events.
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- General Material
August 2011
Serving Survivors of Homicide Victims During Cold Case Investigations: A Guide for Developing a Law Enforcement Protocol
Publisher(s):National Sheriffs' Association (NSA), Justice Solutions, National Organization of Parents Of Murdered Children, Inc. (POMC)
This guide provides a framework for the development of a protocol by law enforcement agencies to more effectively work with and serve survivors of homicide victims.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
August 2011
WEBINAR: Utilizing Social Media to Engage the Community
Publisher(s):This session focuses on effective use of social media to engage your constituents and get your message of anti-violence out to the community.









