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January 2011
Domestic Violence Courts: Pretrial and Courthouse Safety
Publisher(s): This webpage emphasizes the need to implement pretrial and courthouse safety planning for survivors, and offers recommended steps for creating such a safety plan.
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January 2011
Secondary Traumatic Stress: A Fact Sheet for Child-Serving Professionals
Publisher(s):This fact sheet provides a concise overview of secondary traumatic stress and its potential impact on child-serving professionals. It also outlines options for assessment, prevention, and interventions relevant to secondary stress, and describes the elements necessary for transforming child-serving organizations and agencies into systems that also support worker resiliency.
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January 2011
Safe Congregation Handbook: Nurturing Healthy Boundaries in Our Faith Communities
Publisher(s):This handbook was designed to provide education, clear policies, and moral courage in addressing breaches of trust and safety in the Unitarian Universalist faith community.
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December 2010
Stand & Serve Primary Prevention Program Theory
Publisher(s):Peer Solutions works with an evidence-based "Stand & Serve" prevention model. The "Stand & Serve" approach utilizes developmental assets/positive youth development, community development, social norms, diffusion of innovation/peer education, social change, and marketing research to prevent violence.
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December 2010
Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010
The Act was passed and signed into law in December 2010. It extends Bush-era tax cuts, unemployment insurance, and specific provisions under ARRA including key tax credit programs for families.
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December 2010
2011 TANF Extension
Publisher(s):In November 2010, Congress extended the TANF program through FY 2011, as part of the Claims Resolution Act (H.R. 4783). This fact sheet summarizes these legislative actions.
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- General Material
December 2010
A Social Worker’s Role in Elder Abuse Cases: Reporting, Holistic Assessment and Resources
Publisher(s):This recorded webinar describes how legal services lawyers and social workers work together in elder abuse cases.
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- General Material
December 2010
Best Practices for Lawyers Assisting Pro Se Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking With Civil Protection Cases Manual
Publisher(s): These guidelines are intended to reflect the best national practices that may be used by civil lawyers who provide no-cost assistance to pro se victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking in civil protection order cases.
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December 2010
A Call to Men
Publisher(s):In this video, Tony Porter presents the idea of the man-box. This notion of the construction of masculinity limits men, promotes the devaluation of women, and creates a harmful notion of manhood.
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December 2010
Up to Us: Lessons learned and goals for change after thirteen years of the Washington State Domestic Violence Fatality Review
Publisher(s):This sixth and final biennial report draws on the lessons learned by the Washington State Domestic Violence Fatality Review (DVFR) after more than a decade of analysis and community conversation, and it sets out eleven goals for change.
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December 2010
The Politics of Memory: Part II. The Voice of the Oppressed
This video highlights the historical roots of the mental health consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement in the fight for women’s rights.
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December 2010
Shifting Boundaries: Lessons on Relationships for Students in Middle School
This curriculum is an evidence-based, multi-level prevention program for middle school students on sexual harassment and precursors to dating violence.









