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June 2000

Best Practices Manual for Domestic Violence Programs

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Members and volunteers produced this manual in an effort to provide a reference and resource document for agencies planning, developing, implementing and improving domestic violence victim service programs.
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  • General Material
June 2000

Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation's Youth

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This report describes the responses of youth who were surveyed about their use of the internet and experiences while online, which includes exposure to unwanted sexual material and harassment. It also highlights the need for both public and private initiatives to make the internet safer for youth.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
June 2000

Expanding Solutions for Domestic Violence and Poverty: What Battered Women with Abused Children Need from Their Advocates

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This paper uses examples from the child welfare system to raise questions about the limitations of current DV advocacy strategies for low-income women. The paper challenges the U.S. traditional battered women's movement to expand its solutions.
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May 2000

Simplifying physicians' response to domestic violence

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This article proposes involving physicians in domestic violence intervention in four key areas (AVDR): asking all patients about abuse; validating the message that battering is wrong and confirming the patient's worth; documenting signs, symptoms, and disclosures; and referring victims to domestic violence specialists. According to the author, the AVDR approach would allow physicians to be proactive in responding to domestic violence.
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  • General Material
  • NRCDV Publications
May 2000

Making the Peace: An Approach to Preventing Relationship Violence Among Youth

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Describes a comprehensive school-based project that provided training and technical assistance to 2 communities implementing comprehensive dating/domestic violence prevention campaigns in their secondary schools.
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April 2000

Are You or is Anyone You Know a Battered Woman? / Para Mujeres ¿Es Tu Vida Complicada?

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This two-sided five-panel brochure presents information in Spanish (en Español) on one side and in English on the other, and was developed for use in local domestic violence programs and other organizations that provide services to victims of abuse.
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  • General Material
April 2000

Public Opinion and the Criminal Justice System: Building Support for Sex Offender Management Programs

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It will address three areas of interest: why the public's perspective is important; how leadership in different states has benefited from studies of public opinion about crime and criminal justice issues; and why it is essential that the criminal justice system view the public as a partner rather than an adversary or simply a group of consumers.
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March 2000

Engaging Advocates and Other Victim Service Providers in the Community Management of Sex Offenders

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The purpose of this brief is to provide information, ideas, and resources that will encourage agencies managing sex offenders in the community to consider the benefits and feasibility of involving victim advocates and other victim service providers in their work.
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  • General Material
March 2000

Relationship Dynamics, Ethnicity and Condom Use Among Low-Income Women

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This study examines the importance of social and demographic characteristics, attitudes towards condom effectiveness against HIV, fertility intentions and power dynamics as predictors of condom use.
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  • General Material
March 2000

Children's Advocacy Centers in Indian Country

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The booklet discusses CAC's model in developing a proven response to child abuse by creating a multidisciplinary team approach that coordinates the key services involved in the investigation, prosecution, and treatment&of child abuse cases. It concludes by encouraging tribal communities in the developmental stages to consider the CAC's model as an appropriate response to child abuse.
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February 2000

Promoting resilience: Helping young children and parents affected by substance abuse, domestic violence, and depression in the context of welfare reform

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This is Issue Brief #8 in a series based on a growing body of research that suggests that successful policies for families must take into account the needs of children when addressing the needs of parents and the needs of parents when addressing the needs of children.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • Training Tools
  • General Material
February 2000

Outreach to Underserved Communities

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This curriculum is designed to help domestic violence programs reach out to underserved communities in order to address the issues of diversity and of the limited access to quality services for battered women from those communities.