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Media Guide: Choking versus Strangulation
Publisher(s):This guide aims to help reporters, copywriters, headline writers, and editors understand the distinction between choking – an accidental internal obstruction of the airway, and strangulation – a tactic of control and abuse.
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African-American Women and Abortion
This essay reviews the activism of African-American women in the abortion rights movement, highlighting the past fifty years.
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What Every Congregation Needs to Know About Domestic Violence
Publisher(s): An introductory pamphlet that includes basic information about domestic violence, addresses common questions, and provides additional resources. Ideal for distribution to both laity and clergy.
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Revista Mátria
Publisher(s):Annual publication with the objective to inform and educate about gender equality and women's rights. (Information available in Portuguese only.)
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Model Workplace Policy On Employer Responses to Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking
Publisher(s):This model policy outlines guidelines for workplace responses to victims/survivors of violence and perpetrators of violence.
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Facts About Intimate Partner Strangulation
Publisher(s):This brief fact sheet includes basic information prepared by the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women, a state that pioneered the prosecution of felony strangulation cases.
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What You Should Know About Violence and Harassment Against LGBT Individuals
Publisher(s):This factsheet contains information on violence and harassment against LGBT individuals. Topics covered include LGBT youth violence and harassment, likelihood of experiencing violence and harassment for transgender people, LGBT couples and intimate partner violence, health impacts, and intersectionality of race and LGBT identity.
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The Culture Wheel
Publisher(s):By examining the many ways society reinforces the use of power and control, those using the wheel can identify actions that might be taken on personal, cultural and institutional levels to end the tolerance of battering.
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Speak.Act.Change Youth Advocacy Kit
Publisher(s):The Speak.Act.Change Youth Advocacy Kit is a service-learning, youth activism program designed to complement any basic dating violence education curriculum. The program gives students the tools to protect themselves and their peers from dating violence.
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National Prevention Town Hall 2020
Publisher(s): On September 14, 2020, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and the National IPV Prevention Council, in partnership with the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, and the Ohio Domestic Violence Network, hosted our first ever National Prevention Town Hall, highlighting innovative social change efforts in the East North Central Region of the United States.
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NCALL Trainers' Toolkit
Publisher(s): This Trainers’ Toolkit from the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life features new and redesigned resources for trainers, including PowerPoint slide sets, interactive training exercises, and training modules.
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12 Teaching Scenarios: Responding to Rape, Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse
Publisher(s):Teaching scenarios used in this self-paced online course are designed for use in groups and classes of all kinds.