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January 2010
Gender Neutral Pronouns Chart
Publisher(s):This chart outlines eight traditional and gender neutral pronouns and provides conjugation and pronunciation information.
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- General Material
January 2010
What You Can Do About Violence and Harassment Against LGBT Individuals
Publisher(s):This fact shest contains information for youth and adults about ways to get involved, show support and learn more about violence and harassment against LGBT individuals.
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- General Material
January 2010
Battered Mothers Involved with Child Protective Services: Learning from Immigrant, Refugee, and Indigenous Womens Experiences
Publisher(s):This report presents voices of immigrant, refugee, and indigenous women survivors on their experiences with the Child Protective Services. The report aims to inform and enhance the child protective services system.
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- General Material
January 2010
Young Women Speak Out! Perspectives and Implications of Reproductive Health, Rights & Justice Policies
Publisher(s):This community-informed research project explores the views and documents the experiences of young Latinas in diverse California regions regarding reproductive and sexual health concerns in order to showcase the day-to-day implications that such policies have among youth in our communities.
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- General Material
January 2010
Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry
Publisher(s):SPLC researchers interviewed approximately 150 women who are either currently undocumented or have spent time in the U.S. as undocumented immigrants. The women all have worked in the U.S. food industry in Arkansas, California, Florida, Iowa, New York or North Carolina.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
October 2009
Mobilizing Religious Communities to Respond to Gender-based Violence and HIV: A Training Manual
Publisher(s):This manual offers guidance to trainers who are conducting workshops for religious leaders and women leaders of faith on gender-based violence and HIV. It offers resources and approaches to use in training to raise awareness and to motivate action planning to address gender-based violence and HIV issues.
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- General Material
October 2009
Children's Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National Survey
Publisher(s):This Bulletin discusses the most comprehensive nationwide survey of the incidence and prevalence of children’s exposure to violence to date, measuring the past-year and lifetime exposure for children age 17 and younger across several major categories.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
August 2009
Domestic Violence Awareness: Action for Social Change - Part II: Organizing and Communications
Publisher(s):This second installment of the Action for Social Change manual intends to generate critical thinking and enhance dialogue regarding community organizing and partnerships, communications and engaging the media.
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- General Material
August 2009
What is the Healthy Marriage Field and What is a Healthy Marriage?
Publisher(s):This brief provides an overview of marriage and relationship education and the field. It describes the demonstration projects created to examine what works with what population and discuses the fields within social services that are working with a diverse array of Americans to deliver marriage education via multiple modes. It highlights public awareness about the value of marriage and marriage education services.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
May 2009
Where Do 'Domestic Violence' Statistics Come From and Why Do They Vary So Much?
Publisher(s):National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC), National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
Domestic Violence and Healthy Marriage advocates often appear to contradict each other when they report statistics on the levels and nature of intimate partner conflict. This research brief helps clarify some of the misunderstandings, errors and apparent contradictions which derive from treating domestic violence as a single phenomenon.
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- General Material
February 2009
The Vulnerable Women's Project: Refugee and Asylum Seeking Women Affected by Rape or Sexual Violence
Publisher(s):This literature review summarizes current evidence on the prevalence of sexual violence against refugee women, and addresses topics regarding access to justice in some of the countries from which the Vulnerable Women's Project's clients have fled.
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- Training Tools
- General Material
February 2009
Webinar - Now That We Know: How to Use the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Report to Mobilize Change
Publisher(s):This is a 2-hour webinar presenting the findings and recommendations from the 2008 report “Now That We Know” by the Washington State Domestic Violence Fatality Review.









