Intervention & Prevention Content Topic Results

In NRCDV's August 2016 TA Question of the month, Jill Merriman offers guidance on how service providers can address the needs of refugees and asylum seekers who have experienced sexual violence.

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.

This exercise provides an opportunity to read material about advocacy with victims in contact, and then talk about the needs of victims in contact and our advocacy with them.

This fact sheet offers some statistics about immigration and domestic violence, and describes some of the financial, cultural, and linguistic barriers that may deter immigrant women from seeking services.

In this paper, the author describes her experience in learning to become an advocate for Deaf survivors of domestic violence. She emphasizes the importance of both linguistic and cultural competency, and the necessity of key collaborations towards successful advocacy work.

This sample clinical protocol describes how the clinic works with patients who are suspected of being victims of abuse.

This handout teaches parents about their personal power and responsibility to protect children from sexual abuse.

This short document defines dating violence and discusses some basic do’s and don’ts for working with teen survivors of dating violence.

This Toolkit, grounded in the realities of community-based organizations working from a culturally-specific framework, was designed to help enhance programs’ evidence-building capacity.

A study on elder financial abuse prevention.

On September 14, 2020, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and the National IPV Prevention Council, in partnership with the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, and the Ohio Domestic Violence Network, hosted our first ever National Prevention Town Hall, highlighting innovative social change efforts in the East North Central Region of the United States.