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January 2002
Women of Color Leadership at Sexual Assault Coalitions: Pulse Check Report 2010
Publisher(s):This report presents findings from focus groups and critical conversations on the progress and challenges faced by Women of Color working at sexual assault coalitions.
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- General Material
January 2002
Batterers As Fathers: Rethinking and Reconceptualizing Policy and Practice
Publisher(s):This article describes an approach to intervention and prevention with children exposed to domestic violence that enforces the concepts of batterer accountability and change.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
January 2002
Expect Respect: A School-Based Program Promoting Safe and Healthy Relationships
Publisher(s):This document examines the issues of dating violence, sexual harassment and bullying, their interrelationship, and offers a rationale for school-based programs.
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- General Material
January 2002
Extreme Critical Thinking Handout
This document lists questions to help guide an analysis of reforms and is based on Susan Schechter’s Women and Male Violence (1982).
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- General Material
January 2002
From Chastity Requirement to Sexuality License: Sexual Consent and a New Rape Shield Law
This document examines historical and contemporary rape shield laws and concludes with an original model rape shield law designed to meet existing gaps.
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- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
- General Material
January 2002
Kid&TeenSAFE: An Abuse Prevention Program for Youth with Disabilities
Publisher(s):This publication details a project of SafePlace's Disability Services ASAP (A Safety Awareness Program) in Texas and provides its model program materials for use with youth with disabilities.
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- General Material
January 2002
The Case Against “Special Needs”
Words simultaneously reflect and reinforce our attitudes and perceptions. In this article, the author argues against using the descriptor “special needs” for people with disabilities, discussing how it can promote negative attitudes and segregation.
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- General Material
January 2002
Time to Work: Managing the Employment of Sex Offenders Under Community Supervision
Publisher(s):This paper discusses critical issues in the management of sex offender employment, including assessing potential job placements, approaching the job search process, making sound job placement decisions, developing relationships with employers, and monitoring sex offenders' job-related activities.
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- General Material
January 2002
Disability History Timeline
Publisher(s): This page from the Rehabilitation Research & Training Center on Independent Living Management provides a list of national and international milestones highlighting people, events, and legislation affecting the disability rights movement.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
November 2001
Spouse Assault Replication Program: Studies of Effects of Arrest on Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
Reviews NIJ studies on arrest policies for misdemeanor domestic assault, an attempt to replicate the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment (1984), which found that arrest was almost twice as effective as other police actions in preventing re-arrest.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
November 2001
Working with Young Men Who Batter
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This document reviews juvenile BIPs, identifies risk factors for teen dating violence perpetration, describes efforts to prevent re-offenses, discusses shortcomings inherent in post-crisis intervention, and outlines current challenges within the field.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
November 2001
Housing and Battered Women
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This paper offers a research on DV and homelessness and trends in federal housing policy. A model for conducting a community assessment of local housing needs includes critical thinking questions on an organization’s capacity for housing advocacy.