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This Conversation Guide is designed to help you increase emotional safety and improve responsiveness to trauma in your shelter or program.

With the holiday season approaching, questions arise about the connection between domestic violence and distinctive holidays. This brief document offers guidance from the NRCDV Technical Assistance Team. This document provides an analysis of the available data on the volume of request for domestic violence services during the holidays, and offers recommendations for advocates on how to help survivors during this time of year.

In 2009, representatives from the Wisconsin Departments of Health Services, and Children and Families, the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Governor's Council on Domestic Abuse, the Wisconsin Children's Trust Fund, the Child Abuse Prevention Fund of Children's Hospital and Health System, and Children's Service Society of Wisconsin joined in a collaboration called "The Forward Wisconsin Initiative: Preventing Interpersonal Violence" to enhance efforts to change social norms and community tolerance for violence.

The guidebook gives tips on how to design safe economic programs and livelihood activities to help prevent gender-based violence.

This handbook was created to provide guidance to attorneys so that they can help survivors achieve their civil legal objectives when trauma or other mental health challenges are a potential factor in a case.

This toolkit provides guidance to mental health practitioners and agencies on how to respond to subpoenas and other demands to produce client mental health records in ways that will maximize client safety and autonomy.

This short fact sheet explains what triggers are and how to handle situations that might be triggering a person.

This guidebook focuses on the impact of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other forms of trauma on people with disabilities. It describes four conditions for a trauma-informed organization and provides tips on trauma-informed practices, creating organizational change, and providing universal safeguards.

NSVRC shares lessons from the Penn State University sexual abuse case in this three-part series on bystander intervention as a continuation of their support of and focus on this approach to sexual violence prevention. This article highlights the MVP program.

This toolkit provides guidance to local primary prevention providers on all stages of program evaluation including determining needs, resources, and capacity, stating outcomes and developing a logic model, and collecting, managing, and analyzing evaluation data.

This Conversation Guide is designed to help you increase your staff's ability to support survivors when trauma affects interaction and communication.

Sexual violence prevention programs led by youth often use a peer education model. NRCDV's December 2011 TA Question of the Month discusses the value of youth-led prevention programming.