Intervention & Prevention Content Topic Results
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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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January 2010
Enhancing Services to Children and Youth in Virginia Exposed to Violence: Demonstration Site - ACTS Turning Point Group for Teen Mothers
Publisher(s):These materials highlight the work of one site in Virginia's Enhancing Services to Children and Youth demonstration project.
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- General Material
January 2010
Engaging Boys to Stop Violence: A step-by-step guide for initiating social change
Publisher(s):This step-by-step guide provides practical steps explaining how to go about engaging boys and men as partners to stop the violence against boys and girls, women and other men.
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- General Material
January 2010
Religious Participation and Social Justice: Individual and Congregational Effects
Scholars in the field of community psychology have called for a closer examination of the mediating role that religious congregations serve in society, especially in relation to the promotion of social justice. This study provides such an examination.
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- General Material
January 2010
Jewish Concepts and Values for Helping Victims and Perpetrators of Domestic Violence
Publisher(s): Rabbi Dorff discusses the Jewish religious concepts that support victims/survivors in finding safety and healing, as well as accountability for those who harm their intimate partners.
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- Training Tools
- General Material
January 2010
Respect WORKS!
Publisher(s):Respect WORKS! is a comprehensive model of teen dating violence prevention programming to give middle and high schools, youth service providers and domestic violence agencies the tools they need to respond effectively to teen dating violence issues on and off campus.
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- General Material
January 2010
Managing Your Divorce: A Guide for Battered Women
Publisher(s): This guide is designed for domestic violence survivors who are representing themselves, without an attorney, in court cases involving child custody. It includes chapters on finding an attorney, financial considerations, custody and divorce mediation, gathering evidence for trial, unsupervised visitation and safety planning, tips for dealing with custody evaluators, guidelines for selecting an expert witness, relocation, and many more.
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- General Material
January 2010
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Sites in Native Communities
Publisher(s):Recognizing how many eligible workers do not take advantage of the EITC, 14 VITA sites in Native American communities undertook a survey with more than 1800 American Indian/Alaskan Natives/Native Hawaiians to better understand how the EITC could benefit their communities.
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- General Material
January 2010
Screening for Domestic Violence in Mental Health Settings
Publisher(s):This page is designed for mental health professionals who don’t work in specialized domestic violence services, but need to know about their clients’ experiences of victimization in order to provide them with the best possible services.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 2010
What If She Says Yes? A Webinar of Strategies for Health Professionals When Someone Discloses DV
Publisher(s):This webinar provides an opportunity to learn how to respond to and advocate for clients experiencing domestic violence. Covering some of the emotional, legal, and financial implications of DV, participants will learn strategies to better help survivors of abuse.
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- General Material
January 2010
User's Guide: Making the Case for Domestic Violence Prevention Using a Cost-Effectiveness Framework
Publisher(s):This direct application tool supplements the manual, "Making the Case for Domestic Violence Prevention Through the Lens of Cost-Benefit." It describes cost-benefit principles and offers hands-on tools to "make the case" for your prevention program.
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- General Material
January 2010
North Carolina 10-Year Plan to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence
Publisher(s):This plan represents the first effort on this scale in North Carolina to address the factors that increase risk for perpetration of intimate partner violence and to promote factors which create healthy, sustainable families and communities. The structure of this document reflects our core commitment„to reach out to every North Carolinian with messaging about healthy relationships, with some specific focus on those groups which carry the heaviest burden of risk for being affected by violence.
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- General Material
January 2010
Florida’s Model Policy on Officer-Involved Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):Law Enforcement Families Partnership, Institute for Family Violence Studies (IFVS), Florida State University (FSU)
This model policy intends to establish uniform statewide guidelines that provide clear procedures and protocols for preventing, investigating, reporting, and responding to domestic violence involving officers.









