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January 2006
Physician Readiness to Manage Intimate Partner Violence Survey (PREMIS)
Publisher(s):This instrument is a 15-minute survey that is a comprehensive and reliable measure of physician preparedness to manage IPV patients. It can also be used to measure the effectiveness of IPV educational programs.
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January 2006
Before It Occurs: Primary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse
This document discusses various levels of prevention and focuses on primary prevention strategies for intimate partner violence. It also explores health care professionals' role in primary prevention of intimate partner violence.
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January 2006
Traumatic Brain Injury and Domestic Violence: HELPS Screening Tool for Traumatic Brain Injury
Publisher(s):This document discusses the intersection between DV and TBI, lists symptoms and recommendations for working with survivors with TBI, and offers a screening tool to aid in determining if survivors should be seen by a doctor for further evaluation.
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January 2006
Risk Assessment and Sex Offender Community Supervision: A Context-Specific Framework
Publisher(s):The author points out that the risk assessment and management of sex offenders is heavily influenced by the unique social and political context in which our society views sex crimes and sex offenders.
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January 2006
Finding Dawn
Publisher(s):Finding Dawn illustrates the deep historical, social and economic factors that contribute to the epidemic of violence against Native women in this country.
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January 2006
Investing in Our Communities: Strategies for Immigrant Integration
Publisher(s):This toolkit for grantmakers draws on extensive research and interviews with hundreds of foundation, community, business, and government leaders. It incorporates academic research as well as policy and community-based concerns into a resource that also can inform the work of practitioners in the nonprofit, public, and private sectors.
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January 2006
Model Policy for Law Enforcement on Communicating with People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Publisher(s): This is a model policy by the U.S. Department of Justice that law enforcement agencies can modify for their own organizations as appropriate. It deals with how law enforcement officers should communicate with people who have hearing difficulties.
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January 2006
Breaking the Silence: A Training Manual for Activists, Advocates and Latina Organizers
Publisher(s):This manual suggests strategies for organizing, how to work together as a group, how to ensure that the group stays together, how to start an agency to provide culturally specific services, and how to negotiate and improve the system.
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January 2006
Pathways to Early School Success: Helping the Most Vulnerable Infants, Toddlers, and their Families
Publisher(s):This issue brief discusses the challenges faced by children who grow up in low income environments. It includes statistics regarding vulnerable children and solutions to prevent vulnerable children from falling behind.
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January 2006
The Family Violence Risk Assessment Project and its Domestic Violence Screening Instrument (DVSI-R)
Publisher(s):This Sanctions Update focuses on the DVSI-R: what it is, how it is used in the courts, how it benefits system players and victims, and what the next steps are for refining it even further.
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January 2006
Teacher's Guide, Interesting, Fun, and Effective Classroom Activities to Influence Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention
Publisher(s):This guide provides suggestions for class activities that increase awareness of teen dating violence.
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January 2006
Tips for Domestic Violence Victims Seeking Unemployment Benefits
Publisher(s):This document provides Q&A explaining unemployment benefits, discussing eligibility in circumstances involving domestic violence, and describing the application process for benefits.