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RESPECT! Challenge Action Toolkit
Publisher(s):The RESPECT! Challenge celebrates the everyday heroes in our lives by sharing inspiring stories from individuals across the country in answer to the question, “Who would you like to thank for teaching you Respect?” The RESPECT! Challenge Action Toolkit offers a variety of resources and tools, including discussion guides, conversation starters, fact sheets, and more.
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AARP Foundation Tax-Aide Program
Publisher(s):Since 1968, AARP Foundation Tax-Aide has provided free tax help to over 78 million taxpayers, with a focus on older adults with low to moderate income. This webpage offers information on AARP Foundation Tax-Aide resources and how to access help.
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Pregnancy and Abuse: How to Stay Safe for Your 9 Months
Publisher(s):This blog post provides a snapshot of statistics on abuse during pregnancy and resources available to pregnant women in abusive relationships.
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Trans/GNC Caring Relationships, Healthy You Card
Publisher(s): The goal of this safety card is to be both a survivor-centered resource and a useful conversation starter for health care providers who are doing universal education around healthy relationships and assessing for violence specifically with transgender, genderqueer, or gender nonconforming people or in LGBTQ health settings.
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InBrief: The Impact of Early Adversity on Children's Development
Publisher(s):Science also shows that providing stable, responsive environments for children in the earliest years of life can prevent or reverse these conditions, with lifelong consequences for learning, behavior, and health.
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JWI Clergy Resources
Publisher(s):JWI offers a number of domestic violence resources for Jewish clergy, including prayers, sermons, webinars, music, and the "Embracing Justice" clergy guide. This guide offers key information and resources to support rabbis and cantors in working with domestic violence victims, families, and perpetrators.
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Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Secondary Trauma
This article clearly defines trauma, PTSD, and secondary trauma and how secondary trauma affects those who work with traumatized clients.
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The Culture Wheel
Publisher(s):By examining the many ways society reinforces the use of power and control, those using the wheel can identify actions that might be taken on personal, cultural and institutional levels to end the tolerance of battering.
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Predominant Aggressor Determination
Publisher(s): This podcast assists law enforcement on determining who is the predominant aggressor when responding to a DV report.
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How the Earth Didn't Fly Into the Sun: Missouri's Project to Reduce Rules in Domestic Violence Shelters
Publisher(s):This guide is part of a shared goal between NRCDV, state coalitions, and individual programs to find a better way to welcome women and other domestic violence victims -- many of whom had every aspect of life controlled by their partners -- into shelter where they could experience autonomy despite the constraints of a communal living environment. The concept and conflict of having rules in shelter has been repeatedly recycled and re-silenced throughout the movement to end violence against women.
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Indiana Domestic Violence Fatality Review Report 2009-2010
Publisher(s):In the two-year period of 2009-2010, 116 women, children and men died in Indiana when domestic abuse escalated to lethal levels of violence. The goal of this report is to publicly acknowledge these deaths, learn from them, and implement strategies designed to prevent future violence.
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Community Action Toolkit for Addressing Intimate Partner Violence Against Transgender People
Publisher(s):National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), National Black Justice Coalition, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), Trans People of Color Coalition, GLAAD, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Research has shown that transgender individuals are disproportionately impacted by the violence in intimate partner relationships. In addition, transgender communities face many systemic barriers while accessing services to redress intimate partner violence. This toolkit was designed to create dialogue on transgender intimate partner violence, ways to support survivors, and identify resources for intimate partner violence.









