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This page offers a brief history of IDAs, a description of the role of banks, and a breakdown of where the match comes from, which states have state-supported IDA programs, and examples of successful IDA outcomes.

This compilation provides practitioners and clinicians with an inventory of existing assessment tools for determining intimate partner violence and/or sexual violence victimization in clinical/healthcare settings.

This article discusses the role of dental care professionals in identifying domestic violence and responding to patients who have facial injuries that are a result of domestic violence.

This article by a nursing student describes a study of intimate partner violence that either occurred in the workplace or that directly impacted the victim’s work.

These are two-sided bilingual cards with printed information about Language Access Rights, as well as a statement that requests an interpreter.

This document discusses some challenges in representing a victim of domestic violence whose batterer is a police officer.

This study analyzed 997 sexual offenders in sixteen Canadian jurisdictions and 2 American states (Iowa and Alaska) for risk assessment methodologies.

These training slides can be used by advocates to understand the three spheres of culture (of domestic violence and gender inequality, of familial and community values and norms, and of systems) and provide survivor-centered services to survivors.

This new assessment tool for childhood exposure to intimate partner violence and adolescent dating violence is available in two formats, for either the iSilo or Documents to Go text readers.

There is a complex and often reciprocal relationship between poverty and sexual violence. This guide is intended to support rape crisis centers in their economic advocacy efforts at all levels of the organization.

This guide shares key lessons learned at the “Building Bridges Between Healthy Marriage, Responsible Fatherhood, and Domestic Violence Fields Conference,” where participants focused on strategies for working together to achieve the goals all three fields have in common -- fostering safe and healthy intimate partner relationships and parent-child relationships.

Currently there is a significant amount of attention focused on the large number of offenders who are being released from prison to communities across the country. Leadership and support from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs have created opportunities to discuss, plan and implement new strategies to more effectively deal with offenders who are going home.