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A System Framework for Creating, Supporting, and Sustaining Trauma-Informed Schools
Publisher(s):This framework illustrates why becoming “trauma-informed” should be an essential component of the overall mission of our education system.
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Health Professional Students: Get Involved
Publisher(s):This page provides information about action steps that health professional students and faculty can take to support organizing efforts and improve health care responses to women, men, and children who have been impacted by domestic violence.
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LGBTQ Relationships and the Law
Publisher(s):The legal system is an important tool in your safety planning, whether you’re straight or LGBTQ. This short handout provides safety tips for LGBTQ youth for seeking legal assistance and protection.
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Hope & Power for Your Personal Finances: A Rebuilding Guide Following Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):This participant workbook can help survivors learn about, and organize, the financial aspects of their lives. Topics covered include financial inventories, budgeting, and job search. This resource is a component of NCADV's financial education project. Available in English and Spanish.
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T Nonimmigrant Status - Immigration Relief for Victims of Human Trafficking Video
Publisher(s):This video provides information of how the T Visa can assist victims of human trafficking and connect them with the different services/benefits available to them.
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Your Kids Make Memories Everyday
Publisher(s):This poster informs the perpetrators of domestic violence about the negative effects of domestic violence on children and encourages the perpetrators to stop abuse.
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Delphi Instrument for Hospital-based Domestic Violence Programs
Publisher(s):This validated tool, which can be self-administered or administered by external evaluators, can be used to track and measure the progress of a hospital in improving its response to domestic violence.
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Improving Services and Outreach to the Latino Community
Publisher(s):The article suggests that programs evaluate their effectiveness in addressing specific Latino community needs, recognize and address barriers to serving Latino communities, and learn about diversity within Latino communities. The article also suggests eliminating stereotypes, developing organization wide language competency, and ensuring that all staff have a duty to serve all members of the community.
Available in both English and Spanish.
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Inclusion: NAD Position Statement
Publisher(s):This position statement explains in detail this organization's position with regard to mainstreaming Deaf children in school settings.
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Domestic Violence Survivors
Publisher(s):This webpage identifies a number of consumer issues faced by survivors of domestic violence, including: budgeting, prioritizing debt, credit reports, repairing damaged credit, utility rights, managing debt, assistance with payments, student loans, bankruptcy, and foreclosure.
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If You Really Care about Environmental Justice, You Should Care about Reproductive Justice!
Publisher(s):Environmental Justice, like RJ, incorporates a social justice framework. It seeks to reduce the inequitable environmental burdens born by communities of color, women, indigenous communities and those living in economically disadvantaged areas or developing nations.
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Expanding Advocacy at the Intersection of Reproductive Justice & HIV/AIDS
Publisher(s):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.









