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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- General Material
January 2001
Guidebook on Vicarious Trauma: Recommended Solutions for Anti-violence Workers
Publisher(s):This guidebook explores the response to vicarious trauma within certain communities and cultural groups.
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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
Intersecting Inequalities: Immigrant Women of Colour, Violence and Health Care
Publisher(s):This report shows that physicians tend to be inadequately prepared to respond to patients who have experienced domestic violence, and that physicians' response to immigrant women who have been abused tend to be influenced by stereotypes about violence within the cultural groups. The report also discusses issues related to disclosure of violence for immigrant women. Recommendations of the report emphasize the need for health care providers to be more educated and aware of the health care impacts of violence.
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- General Material
January 2001
A Service Provider's Guide for Working with GBT Victims and Survivors of Domestic Abuse
Publisher(s):This guide offers tips for service providers in addressing one of the most serious health issues for gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) men. Includes guidelines for education, workplace environment, assessment, response, and safety planning.
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- General Material
January 2001
Young Men as Allies in Preventing Violence and Abuse: Building Effective Partnerships with Schools
Publisher(s):This paper argues that "young men can play a critical role in constructing a healthier world for women and men, a world free of violence and founded on principles of equity and compassion."
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- General Material
January 2001
Payment for Forensic Exams
Publisher(s):This report examines states' recent payment strategies for sexual assault forensic exams and the strategies' strengths and shortcomings.
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- General Material
January 2001
Improving Accessibility of Your Program's Services to Battered Immigrant Women
Publisher(s):This pamphlet provides tips for community programs to expand services to immigrant women who are in abusive relationships.
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- General Material
January 2001
Quick Organizational Audit: LGBT Visibility and Inclusion
Publisher(s):This checklist includes can be used to conduct a quick organizational audit of LGBT visibility and inclusion in agency physical space, policies and outreach materials.
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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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- 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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- 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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- General Material
December 2000
Coding and Documentation of Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):This article discusses the importance of coding and documenting domestic violence by health care providers to improve services for victims and to increase knowledge about the impact of domestic violence on patients' health.









