Intervention & Prevention Content Topic Results

This webpage defines the Community Reinvestment Act and describes the history of the regulations.

This handout addresses some of the psychological and spiritual changes that humanitarian workers may experience. It the common symptoms of vicarious trauma and provides guidance for coping.

This "Facts & Stats Collection" paper describes specific issues and distinguishing dynamics that confront older women of color, highlighting types of abuse and warning signs. Resources for additional information are provided.

The Center for Social Development undertook a review of current research on IDAs in the U.S. This report details this data gathering project, and highlights prime research examples as well as both common and uncommon findings.

African American women have as high, and in some studies higher, rates of trauma as women from other racial groups in substance abuse treatment. This article recommends numerous trauma-informed practices to be used by programs specifically working with women who have experienced trauma. It also recommends a simple agency assessment to identify specific strengths and weaknesses in terms of being able to effectively address trauma.

Getting Safe and Sober is a practical tool kit for use with women who have substance abuse or chemical dependence problems and who are, or have been, victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or sexual abuse.

This curriculum was developed with the intention of educating community based sexual assault service providers on how they can establish a collaborative, working relationship with military installations at the local level. Through developing partnerships, the military and the communities housing military installations can better meet the needs of service members.

This study describes what is known about VAW in Melanesia and East Timor and assesses the effectiveness of efforts made in this region, particularly in increasing access to justice, services to survivors, and promising practices.

This brief document explains the concept of food insecurity: outlining its four dimensions (availability, access, utilization, and stability), explaining the two general types (chronic and transitory) based on duration, exploring the severity of the problem, and providing definitions of the related concepts of hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.

This manual is intended to serve as a guide to agencies looking for practical ideas about how to create trauma-informed environments. It is best viewed as a template and should be supplemented by your knowledge and expertise regarding the most effective adaptations for working with families in your own program.

This article provides practice pointers on how to prepare winning U visa applications, based on the authors experience working with Congress to create the U visa, with Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) to implement its interim relief process, and with practitioners in the field who have won interim relief for noncitizen victims of crime.

This resource explains what FGM is and detail some of its consequences. It also calls on agencies and communities to develop, strengthen, and support specific and concrete actions directed towards ending female genital mutilation.