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Domestic Violence and Health Care Protocols
Publisher(s):These selected model protocols from various health care settings across the US provide a blueprint for responding effectively and efficiently to patients experiencing domestic violence.
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Reproductive Justice Factsheet
Publisher(s):This factsheet details a description of reproductive justice for women living with HIV/AIDS, the challenges to receiving medical care, and promising practices.
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HIV Brochure: Living Healthier, Living Safer
Publisher(s): This brochure provides tips to women living with HIV and domestic violence for staying healthy and safe. It also outlines major signs of DV and provides guidance on how often to get tested for HIV. Available in English and Spanish.
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Childhood Trauma, Changing Minds
Publisher(s):This online destination is full of tools and strategies designed to increase awareness and build essential capacity that helps all children and youth – particularly those exposed to violence – not only survive, but thrive.
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A Domestic Violence Campus Organizing Guide for Health Professional Students and Faculty
Publisher(s):This brief notes that health care providers receive inadequate training on domestic violence prevention, identification, and response, and presents guidelines for students to organize fellow students and faculty to initiate policy change.
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Young Moms Module: Assessment and Safety Planning for Domestic Violence in Home Visitation
Publisher(s): The Young Moms module represents a recent expansion of the Healthy Moms Happy Babies (HMHB) Curriculum and recognizes that the field of home visitation requires new tools to meet the needs of adolescent mothers. This module will train home visitors on how to screen, refer and document these activities as part of routine programming.
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Addressing Intimate Partner Violence to Support Participant and Staff Safety and Enhance Outcomes in Maternal Health
Publisher(s):National Healthy Start Association, Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health Community Care Initiative
This free 7 module professional learning series can be utilized by an array of outpatient and social services professionals, both frontline staff and supervisors, to better understand and respond to the needs of women/birthing persons experiencing IPV during pregnancy and beyond.
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Making the Connection: Intimate Partner Violence and Public Health
Publisher(s):This document provides an introduction to basic prevention concepts by exploring the public health approach, two classification systems, a planning tool used to develop more comprehensive initiatives, and the importance of understanding terminology. It addresses the topics of women's health, mental health and substance abuse, family planning, STIs and HIV, perinatal programs, breastfeeding, child and adolescent health, and injury and violence prevention.
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The Intersection of Brain Injury and Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):This guide offers information about brain injury and the possible complications that this disability can provide to domestic violence survivors. Suggestions for providing informed services to domestic violence survivors living with a brain injury are also included.
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Faith-Based & Community Organizations Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Checklist
This checklist provides guidance for religious organizations (churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, etc.), social service agencies that are faith-based, and community organizations in developing and improving influenza pandemic response/preparedness plans.
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The Premium Tax Credit - The Basics
Publisher(s):This IRS website provides basic information on eligibility for the premium tax credit, reporting changes in circumstance to the marketplace, and claiming the credit on federal tax returns. The website also links to IRS publications, regulations, and notices related to the premium tax credit.
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A Trauma-Informed Guide for Working with Youth Involved in Multiple Systems
Publisher(s):The purpose of this guide is to help those working with youth involved in multiple systems (YIMS) and their families to use a traumatic stress perspective and provide trauma-informed care.









