Intervention & Prevention Content Topic Results
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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
Thoughtful Documentation: Model Forms for Domestic Violence Programs
Publisher(s):It is important that all programs think about and discuss what information they keep and why. This resource provides a set of sample forms that shelters can use to collect information about clients, and includes rationale for data elements included and excluded.
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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
- 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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- Training Tools
- 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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- Training Tools
- 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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- General Material
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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- General Material
May 2011
What is Military Sexual Trauma?
Publisher(s):This article offers information to MST survivors with the intent of providing them with resources to assist them in their recovery. It was also written for partners, friends, or family members of MST survivors.
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- General Material
May 2011
Intimate Partner Violence and Lifetime Trauma
Publisher(s):This article reviews available research exploring the link between histories of physical and sexual abuse in childhood and IPV victimization in adulthood.
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- General Material
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.
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- General Material
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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- General Material
May 2011
Prevalence of intimate partner violence and other lifetime trauma among women seen in mental health settings
Publisher(s):This document provides a brief review of the available research documenting the prevalence of lifetime abuse among women receiving mental health services.