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This is a dating abuse prevention program with an interactive DVD curriculum to help educators engage teens on issues of dating abuse, healthy relationships, and legal rights and responsibilities.

This Powerpoint discusses HIV health disparities in the United States, including a regional snapshot. It also reviews reproductive justice and federal policy issues, including the policing and criminalization of people living with AIDS through disclosure requirements, and policing of sexual activity and childbirth.

This resource offers actionable principles and strategies that organizations can implement to make this move toward becoming anti-racist and trauma-informed.

This resource includes information on influencing factors that affect children exposed to disasters and emergencies. Minimizing risks through disaster preparedness and response are discussed. It also includes checklists for action.

This toolkit supports caseworkers, supervisors, and all other levels of the child welfare workforce in implementing trauma-informed knowledge and skills in their daily interactions, professional services and organizational culture. 

The goal of this report is to provide a comprehensive overview of the federal government's efforts to encourage asset accumulation. The full report offers a survey of current federal asset-building programs, specifically describes recently enacted relevant legislation and the President's 2013 budget proposals, and includes an analysis of current tax policies that promote asset building objectives.

This brief paper discusses the importance of financial education programs, and specific considerations when working with domestic violence survivors.

We can’t create change in areas of injustice if we are afraid to have honest conversations with each other. This article addresses the fact that advancing social justice discussions and finding solutions requires nonprofit organizations to admit our mistakes and keep working to improve.

This page provides basic information about the AOTC, including how to qualify, which expenses are allowable, and where to access application forms.

This document underscores the role of educational reforms in preventing violence against women and presents promising practices in educational reforms and VAW prevention.

The way domestic violence, sexual assault, and other victim service agencies use technology can impact the security, privacy, and safety of the survivors who access their services. This toolkit contains recommended best practices, policy suggestions, and handouts on the use of common technologies.

This edition of the InBrief series addresses basic concepts of early childhood development, established over decades of neuroscience and behavioral research, which help illustrate why child development, particularly from birth to five years, is a foundation for a prosperous and sustainable society.