Intervention & Prevention Content Topic Results

This resource guides shelter staff in offering support to children and families who are experiencing homelessness and who have experienced trauma.

Reach Hurting Kids Institute is an interdisciplinary team of researchers, mental health professionals, and children’s ministry experts who provide trauma-informed children’s ministry resources that empower the Church to reach the hurting kids in their congregations and communities.

Examines how male survivors may express trauma in nontraditional ways, emphasizing the need for nuanced, empathetic approaches from providers.

Minimal research has examined the affect of public assistance rules on saving and asset accumulation among low-income families.

The purpose of this toolkit is to share resources and knowledge that others have found useful in developing programs for primary prevention of intimate partner violence.

This lesson addresses dating violence by using a series of videos (available on YouTube) as the basis for group discussion about different forms of abuse. It provides participants with strategies for safely ending a relationship and for seeking resources for themselves or friends.

The goal of this initiative is to prepare sacred community leaders, including clergy and lay leaders, to respond to domestic violence within the context of their sacred traditions.

This resource compiles writings from Deaf person and professionals who oppose the Inclusion movement.

This exercise provides an opportunity to practice and experience victim defined advocacy during the intake process.

"The primary goal of this model protocol is to help advocates better meet the safety needs of all battered women by providing them with the tools to address service needs and options for battered women and children impacted by their own or another's substance use, misuse or addiction. Our challenge as advocates is to provide as safe an environment as possible for all who use our services or work at our programs Ideally, this protocol and model policy will serve as a first step toward identifying options for both battered women impacted by substance use and their advocates."

This booklet offers practical concrete tips and techniques for talking easily and openly with young children ages 8 to 12 about some tough issues: sex and relationships, HIV/AIDS, violence, drugs and alcohol.

The article suggests that programs evaluate their effectiveness in addressing specific Latino community needs, recognize and address barriers to serving Latino communities, and learn about diversity within Latino communities. The article also suggests eliminating stereotypes, developing organization wide language competency, and ensuring that all staff have a duty to serve all members of the community. Available in both English and Spanish.