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March 2014
WEBINAR: National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Safety Strategies for Women at Risk
Publisher(s):On this webinar, Dr. Michele Decker discussed the link between dating/domestic violence and women's exposure to HIV. Ways to raise awareness, decrease stigma and increase services for HIV+ women were shared for crisis counselors, domestic violence victim advocates and shelter managers.
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February 2014
Webinar: Reproductive Coercion and Intimate Partner Violence
Publisher(s):Various domestic violence programs across the country have been integrating assessment for reproductive coercion and helping survivors get emergency contraception during intake or within a 24-hour time period after arrival to shelter.
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January 2014
Collaboration Action Plan
Publisher(s):This partnership and collaboration template allows multiple agencies to draw on their strengths to support ending violence and HIV in their communities.
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January 2014
The Elder Justice Roadmap: A Stakeholder Initiative to Respond to an Emerging Health, Justice, Financial and Social Crisis
Publisher(s): This report identifies and prioritizes actions that direct service providers, educators, and researchers can take to benefit older adults facing abuse, neglect or financial exploitation.
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January 2014
Bridging The Gap: Increasing Financial Stability For Low-Wage Workers
Publisher(s):This toolkit was designed to assist nonprofit human service organizations help their low-wage, frontline employees access work supports. The work supports to which this toolkit refers are government programs that help low-income working families make ends meet by providing financial or in-kind assistance.
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January 2014
Immigrants and the Affordable Care Act
Publisher(s):This document reviews how immigrants are included in health care reform per provisions in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). Spanish version available.
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January 2014
Intimate Partner Violence and Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of Interventions
The objective of this paper is to provide a clear overview of the existing evidence on the effectiveness of interventions for intimate partner violence for women (and their partners/children if the intervention involves them) during the perinatal period.
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January 2014
Women With HIV Speak Out Against Violence: A collection of essays and reflections of women living with and affected by HIV
Publisher(s): Compiled from personal narratives, and written by the women impacted, this collection is designed to share an intimate understanding of life for women living with HIV/AIDS and the intersection of domestic violence.
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January 2014
Population Fact Sheet: Hispanics/Latinos
Publisher(s):This resource addresses some of the root causes of HIV disparity in the Latino community, and some of the interventions Ryan White programs are using to close the gap.
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January 2014
TedTalk: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
Publisher(s):This TedTalk presented by pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains how traumatic experiences affect the brain and increase the risk for other health conditions.
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January 2014
Reproductive Justice Media Reference Guide
Publisher(s):This Strong Families media guide is intended for use by a variety of traditional and new media outlets seeking to learn about or expand their knowledge of reproductive justice in their writing.
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January 2014
PrEP/PEP Point-of-Care Cards
Publisher(s): Project Inform provides this convenient, gender non-specific, foldable and pocketable point-of-care card free to medical, non-medical and other service providers to raise awareness, educate and provide resources for their at-risk patients/clients.