Engagement & Collaboration Content Topic Results
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January 2011
Real Tools: Responding to Multi-Abuse Trauma: A Tool Kit to Help Advocates and Community Partners Better Serve People with Multiple Issues
Publisher(s):This toolkit focuses on survivors of multi-abuse trauma - those who are affected by multiple issues that negatively affect safety, health, or well-being. It offers practical tools for advocates and community partners, such as health and mental heath care providers, to address the complex needs of survivors of multi-abuse trauma, no matter where survivors enter the social service system.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 2011
Tools for Change: A Guide to Primary Prevention Implementation
Publisher(s):This toolkit includes information and resources related to understanding primary prevention, developing prevention programming in individual communities, and implementing a statewide primary prevention plan.
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- General Material
January 2011
Youth 360: Youth Leadership to Prevent Sexual Violence
Publisher(s):In this podcast, Alex Leslie discusses the goals and components of Youth 360, a program developed by Cleveland Rape Crisis Center that builds competence in speaking up, speaking out, and preventing dating and sexual violence.
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- General Material
January 2011
Worry-Free Lobbying for Nonprofits
Publisher(s): This resource offers guidance on how 501(c)(3) organizations can elect to “take advantage of the clear definitions and generous limits on lobbying” as permitted in the IRS Tax Code.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 2011
Somewhere to Turn: Making Domestic Violence Services Accessible to Battered Immigrant Women - A 'How To' Manual For Battered Women's Advocates and Service Providers
This manual addresses the dynamics of domestic violence in immigrant families; ways to create agency-wide cultural competency training programs; multicultural approaches to shelter protocol development; recruiting and hiring multicultural staff; foreign language needs and helpful interviewing techniques for client intake sessions and meetings; ways to do outreach and collaboration with immigrant communities; and, descriptions of model programs.
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- General Material
January 2011
Domestic Violence Counts 2010: A 24-hour census of domestic violence shelters and services
Publisher(s):On September 15, 2010, 91 percent of identified domestic violence programs in the United States participated in the 2010 National Census of Domestic Violence Services. The results were published in this report.
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January 2011
Where Do You Stand? Campaign Guide
Publisher(s):This guide describes 'Where Do You Stand?,' a comprehensive bystander intervention campaign for college men. The guide teaches how to use the campaign to positively change the cultural dynamics of a campus.
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- General Material
January 2011
An Ally's Guide to Terminology: Talking About LGBT People & Equality
Publisher(s):An overview of essential vocabulary for allies wishing to talk about LGBT people and equality, providing explanations about certain terms that have historically been used against gay and transgender people and showing how allies can use respectful language in different contexts.
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January 2011
Abuse in the Deaf Community
Publisher(s):This page provides information about abuse in the Deaf community, including information on the unique circumstances faced by victims and common Deaf-specific tactics used by abusive partners.
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- General Material
January 2011
Men Speak Up: A toolkit for action in men's daily lives
Publisher(s):This report outlines goals for men’s action, identifies how speaking up and activism make a difference, explores what men can do, notes the strategies with which to nourish personal strength, support and inspiration, and acknowledges the mistakes that are easy to make.
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- General Material
January 2011
Where Our Boys At? Involving Young Men as Allies to End Violence against Girls
Publisher(s):"We kept reading statistics and observing that men were overwhelmingly the perpetrators of violence against women and girls. Yet, they were invisible to us. We were teenagers and it didn’t occur to us that male violence against women and girls was an issue that needed to be primarily solved by women.”
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January 2011
North Dakota Community Readiness and Prevention System Capacity Assessment
Publisher(s):This assessment reveals the capacity level of the network of individuals, groups and/or organizations that, through their interaction, have the potential to enhance the primary prevention of sexual and intimate partner violence.









