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A Parent's Handbook: How to Talk to Your Children About Developing Healthy Relationships
Publisher(s):Designed for parents of pre-teens, this booklet was developed as a tool to help parents lay the foundation for healthy decision-making patterns and relationships. Includes tips for "starting the dialogue," interactive quiz, and additional resources.
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Delphi Instrument for Hospital-based Domestic Violence Programs
Publisher(s):This validated tool, which can be self-administered or administered by external evaluators, can be used to track and measure the progress of a hospital in improving its response to domestic violence.
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Culturally-Specific Community and Systems Engagement
Publisher(s):Culture is often understood as ethnic culture, but in fact we all inhabit multiple cultures simultaneously and need to understand which ones we are operating in to be effective. This helpful resource from the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence explores the intersections of culture, community and systems.
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Sexual Violence Against Asian and Pacific Islander Women Training Manual
This training manual describes the different types of sexual violence perpetrated against Asian and Pacific Islander women. Skits and discussion questions are included to help advocates understand sexual violence in vulnerable populations.
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Overcoming Inadmissibility for U Visa applicants
This paper provides information and strategies for applying for U visa application waivers.
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Why include people of all genders in shelters?
Publisher(s): Providing gender-integrated services is a key way to provide safety and healing for all survivors. This tip sheet from FORGE includes eight reasons to provide gender-inclusive shelter services.
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Instigate! An Online Toolkit for Community Mobilization
Publisher(s):Provides tips, tools and exercises to guide the development of a Community Action Team in your neighborhood, city, faith-based group, school or place of employment. Designed primarily for use by domestic violence and public health organizations.
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PTSD Coach
Publisher(s):This Applied Research paper examines both single- and mixed-gender rape prevention and risk reduction programs, and provides suggestions for practitioners to design, implement, and evaluate programs.
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Making the Connection: Intimate Partner Violence and Public Health
Publisher(s):This document provides an introduction to basic prevention concepts by exploring the public health approach, two classification systems, a planning tool used to develop more comprehensive initiatives, and the importance of understanding terminology. It addresses the topics of women's health, mental health and substance abuse, family planning, STIs and HIV, perinatal programs, breastfeeding, child and adolescent health, and injury and violence prevention.
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Healthy Relationships Protect Teens: A Parent’s Handbook
Publisher(s): Pre-teens and young teens who learn to develop healthy relationship skills are more likely to have healthy relationships throughout their lives. As a parent, you should provide reliable and accurate information to your 11-to-14-year-old about healthy relationships: what a healthy relationship feels like, looks like, and sounds like.
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Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence
Publisher(s): This toolkit was written to support community-based approaches to violence intervention.
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What Protections Do I Have Against Credit Discrimination?
Publisher(s): This webpage defines credit discrimination, as well as provides tips as to how individuals can protect themselves against credit discrimination. Individuals who believe they have been discriminated against can submit a complaint through a link provided on the webpage.









