Intervention & Prevention Content Topic Results
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- General Material
June 2011
A Different World is Possible: A call for long-term and targeted action to prevent violence against women and girls
Publisher(s):This report from the UK calls for long-term and targeted action to prevent violence against women and girls. In particular, it asks schools and other educational institutions to play their part.
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- General Material
June 2011
VA Health Care: Actions Needed to Prevent Sexual Assaults and Other Safety Incidents
Publisher(s):This report evaluates and outlines actions needed for improvement in prevention sexual violence and other safety concerns within VA healthcare settings.
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- General Material
June 2011
Women and Trauma: Report of the Federal Partners Committee on Women and Trauma, A Federal Intergovernmental Partnership on Mental Health Transformation
Publisher(s):This report provides background on women and trauma, describes a Roundtable held on April 29, 2010, and presents an outline of what the Committee plans for the coming year.
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- General Material
June 2011
Partners in Social Change Newsletter: Engaging Men
Publisher(s):This issue of "Partners in Social Change" examines what it looks like to engage men in sexual violence prevention. Much of the work we do focuses on how communities can prevent sexual violence; therefore this issue seeks to examine men as a community that has the potential to help create social change.
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- General Material
June 2011
A Different World is Possible: Promising practices to prevent violence against women and girls
Publisher(s):This UK report sets out 15 innovative case studies of "promising" prevention programs including workshops with boys in schools, drama groups, enabling girls at risk of gang violence to access decision makers, and training "bystanders" to intervene to challenge the attitudes of their peers.
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- General Material
June 2011
Reducing the College Progress Gap between Low- to Moderate-income and High-income Young Adults
Publisher(s):This is a summary of new research examining various types of economic capital (assets) and the connection to predicting whether individuals of low and moderate income attend and succeed in college.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
May 2011
What can I do to prevent and respond to sexual violence in the wake of a disaster?
Publisher(s): Historically, rates of sexual violence and other forms of violence against women increase in the aftermath of a disaster or crisis. NRCDV's June 2011 TA Question of the Month provides guidance on how to prevent and respond to violence against women in the wake of disasters.
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- General Material
May 2011
Supporting Parenting in Shelter Webinar
Publisher(s):This 1.5 hour webinar explores practical approaches to supporting parenting in shelter. The presenters offer suggestions for policy change, making space for parenting, and for providing survivor centered advocacy that helps rebuild parent/child bonds and resiliency.
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- General Material
May 2011
Risk Assessment and Intimate Partner Violence: Bridging Research and Practice
Publisher(s):This webinar presents three areas of research on risk assessment in intimate partner violence and describes future directions for linking research and practice in a way that pulls prediction into management, gives victim voice, and integrates advocate expertise.
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May 2011
Eighth Army forms sexual assault prevention task force
Publisher(s):This article discusses efforts of the Eighth Army, positioned on the Korean Peninsula, to prevent sexual assault. The leader of the task force discusses the importance of this issue to the army, and that sexual violence stands in opposition to Army values and the Warrior Ethos.
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May 2011
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
Publisher(s): This landmark treaty of the Council of Europe opens the path for creating a legal framework at pan-European level to protect women against all forms of violence, and prevent, prosecute and eliminate violence against women and domestic violence.
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May 2011
Facilitating Savings and Asset Ownership among Domestic Violence Survivors
Publisher(s):This paper provides an overview of the importance of savings and asset accumulation for survivors, and details surveys of survivors participating in IDA programs.