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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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- General Material
March 2001
The CALCASA Strategic Forum Report: A Vision to End Sexual Assault
Publisher(s):This report represents the culmination of CALCASA's year-long strategic visioning process, which seeks to foster better understanding of the impact of sexual violence and encourage further collaboration to end sexual assault in California.
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- General Material
January 2001
A Lifetime Commitment to Violence Prevention: The Alameda County Blueprint
Publisher(s):This Blueprint is a framework to identify the range of roles and partnerships in which stakeholders can engage and activities that will prevent violence in all its forms, including child and elder abuse, intimate partner violence, date rape and sexual assault, suicide, youth and community violence, and hate violence.
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- Training Tools
- General Material
January 2001
Seeking Safety: A Treatment Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse
Seeking Safety is an empirically studied, integrative treatment approach developed to help people attain safety from trauma/PTSD and substance abuse. This website provides implementation tools, sample topics, research summaries, articles, and assessment tools related to the program.
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- General Material
January 2001
Making Change Happen: Advocacy and Citizen Participation
Publisher(s):This work comes from dialogue of 49 people on the changing political context for social change work. Four key themes are covered: engagement in advocacy; issue-based struggle or struggle-based issue; who's who in advocacy; and how to assess success.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
January 2001
Evaluating the Outcomes of Domestic Violence Service Providers: Some Practical Considerations and Strategies
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This document provides an overview of how to conceptualize and carry out program evaluation in domestic violence organizations. The authors include a discussion of how to design appropriate outcomes and collect data.
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- General Material
January 2001
Gauging Progress A Guidebook For Community Sexual Assault Programs and Community Development Initiatives
In an easy-to-read format with examples and exercises, this guidebook is intended to lay the groundwork for thinking about how to gauge progress, with an emphasis on how to conceptualize evaluation of a community development initiative.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
December 2000
Recommendations for Training TANF and Child Support Enforcement Staff about Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):This paper provides an overview of legal and policy context for domestic violence training, presents suggestions for effective teaching, and defines the concept of a "basic response to domestic violence."
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
December 2000
Supporting Battered Women's Economic Development: One Community's Effort
Publisher(s):This document discusses a process used in St. Louis, Missouri to support battered women's economic development. It explores ways that women's safety and well-being can be enhanced by access to income, financial resources, and opportunities to save money.
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- General Material
November 2000
Cultural Issues Affecting Domestic Violence Service Utilization in Ethnic and Hard to Reach Populations
This comprehensive report describes different cultural issues that may affect how different populations can and do use domestic violence services.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
November 2000
Building A Network Of Advocates Committed To Improving Battered Women's Economic Security
Publisher(s):Features articles about the FVO advocacy efforts of the KS Coalition; the anti-poverty public policy initiatives underway at the AZ Coalition; and an economic literacy curriculum for adult women called Personal Economic Planning.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
October 2000
Welfare, Poverty, and Abused Women: New Research and its Implications
Publisher(s):This summary of studies on domestic violence and TANF recipients explores their physical and mental health and work experience. It focuses on interference from their partners, barriers to work, the Family Violence Option, and the Child Support Exemption.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
October 2000
The Battered Women's Movement - Transforming Our Vision To Meet Women's Needs: Reflections on Wisconsin's Experience
Publisher(s):Describes the process of Wisconsin domestic violence advocates to assess how well their programs and procedures were meeting the needs of battered women and their children. A Building Comprehensive Solutions to Domestic Violence project publication.