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January 2012
Sheltering Animals & Families Together: Start-Up Manual
Publisher(s):This manual provides simple, how-to methods for starting SAF-T at a domestic violence shelter. SAF-T is available to encourage every domestic violence shelter throughout the United States and other countries to keep people and their pets safe.
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January 2012
Alaska Rural Justice and Law Enforcement Commission Report and Recommendations
Publisher(s):The complex issues surrounding the delivery of justice and law enforcement in rural Alaska are profound and acute. In this report, the Alaska Rural Justice and Law Enforcement Commission (“Commission”) offers recommendations that have emerged from the fact finding and deliberative processes in which the Commission has engaged.
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January 2012
Sexual Violence in Disasters: Interactive Online Series
Publisher(s):This three-part series of interactive online courses discuss the connections among sexual violence and disasters and offer recommendations for creating a pre-disaster plan for sexual violence prevention and response.
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January 2012
Assisting Trafficking Victims: A Guide for Victim Advocates
Publisher(s):This information packet describes practices used in cases of human trafficking, how they relate to sexual violence, and how to assist and advocate for victims of human trafficking.
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January 2012
Mindfulness in Schools
Publisher(s): This document provides information on promoting mindfulness in the classroom to help kids regulate behavior and focus on learning.
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January 2012
Financial Literacy for Newcomers: Weaving Immigrant Needs into Financial Education
Publisher(s):It includes online resources, a snapshot of participating programs across the country, and sample interview questions when working on financial literacy with immigrant populations.
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January 2012
The Community Toolbox Chapter 8: Developing a Strategic Plan
Publisher(s):This chapter of the online toolbox provides an overview of strategic planning, developing vision and mission statements, creating objectives, developing successful strategies and an action plan, gathering feedback, and identifying action steps to bring about community and system change.
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January 2012
Hanging Out or Hooking Up?
Publisher(s):This safety card challenges teens to consider how their significant other treats them, identifying dynamics of healthy relationships and signs that may indicate abuse. Tips are provided to those wanting to support a friend who may be facing relationship abuse, and the card is written in gender-neutral terms. (Available in English and Spanish)
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January 2012
Outreach to Underserved Teen Victims of Crime: Chart a Course for Expanding Victim Services to Youth
Publisher(s):This guidebook provides an overview of the challenges faced in conducting outreach to under served teen victims of crime and highlights examples of the various projects and resources developed and implemented in local communities in the Under served Teen Victims Initiative.
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January 2012
Addressing Intimate Partner Violence, Reproductive and Sexual Coercion: A Guide for Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Reproductive Health Care Settings, Second Edition
Publisher(s):This document expands the scope of routine screening for IPV to include assessment for reproductive and sexual coercion. A trauma-informed, comprehensive approach to relationship violence that includes behaviors that interfere with patients reproductive health can improve the quality of care and reproductive health outcomes including higher contraceptive compliance, fewer unintended pregnancies, preventing coerced and repeat abortions, and reducing sexually transmitted infections (STIs)/HIV and associated risk behaviors.
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January 2012
It’s time... to talk to your children about healthy sexuality
Publisher(s): This is a fact sheet that provides a scenario and discussion to promote a conversation between youth and caregivers around healthy sexual development.
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January 2012
Inclusive Services for LGBT Older Adults: A Practical Guide To Creating Welcoming Agencies
Publisher(s):Aging service providers should be aware that the effects of a lifetime of stigma, discrimination, rejection and ridicule puts LGBT older adults at greater risk for physical and mental illnesses. This publication highlights the importance of cultural sensitivity when working with LGBT older adults and describes the barriers faced by older persons in seeking help for abuse, working with law enforcement, and seeking court protections.