Engagement & Collaboration Content Topic Results

This guidebook provides an overview of the challenges faced in conducting outreach to under served teen victims of crime and highlights examples of the various projects and resources developed and implemented in local communities in the Under served Teen Victims Initiative.

This handbook outlines the international and regional legal and policy framework which mandates States to adopt and implement National Action Plans to address VAW, including a model framework for adoption.

Hmong women working in domestic violence programs organized a series of meetings to understand the trends and issues in international marriages and to explore possible actions to address abusive international marriages. Their documentation of the problem and its impact, analysis, survivors’ stories, and strategies are captured in Abusive International Marriages: Hmong Advocates Organizing in Wisconsin.

Emerging evidence shows that youth engagement is an effective strategy for the prevention of teen dating abuse. The Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence compiled this toolkit to provide organizations interested in convening youth councils with sample forms, agendas, materials and advice about lessons  learned from their experience working with youth.

This Online Guide is a reissue of the 2000 publication, The Domestic Violence Handbook for Journalists, and provides resources and information to reporters who cover domestic violence homicides.

These tipsheets provide practical advice on creating trauma-informed services at domestic violence programs and working with survivors who are experiencing trauma symptoms and/or mental health conditions.

The patient safety card provides information for patients on safety and safety planning and help patients recognize how their relationship may impact their health as well as the lives of their children. This tool is most effective when placed in private areas and may be given to patients routinely as part of regular visits, or upon disclosure of abuse. (Available in English, Spanish, and Chinese)

This manual provides simple, how-to methods for starting SAF-T at a domestic violence shelter. SAF-T is available to encourage every domestic violence shelter throughout the United States and other countries to keep people and their pets safe.

This tip sheet for faith community leaders includes ideas for making your congregation a safe and supportive space for survivors. Other helpful hints include to putting survivor safety first and not victim-blaming.

This document describes the Brown Boi Project approach to gender transformation. Gender transformative learning builds an environment where mental health resources are de-stigmatized, new models for masculinity emerge, and boys of color are able to develop an empowering sense of self.

This is a tipsheet for reporters to help them report sensitively and accurately on issues involving intimate partner violence.

This chapter of the online toolbox provides an overview of strategic planning, developing vision and mission statements, creating objectives, developing successful strategies and an action plan, gathering feedback, and identifying action steps to bring about community and system change.