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January 2007
Teen Action Toolkit: Building a Youth-led Response to Teen Victimization
Publisher(s):This toolkit provides guidance to implement the Teen Action Partnership (TAP) for Teen Victims program, encouraging youth leaders to change their communities' response to teenage victims of crime, while building the resilience of the youth participants.
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- General Material
January 2007
Exploring Dimensions of Masculinity and Violence
Publisher(s):This report presents the findings and recommendations for education to explore masculinity and its relationship to violence and gender based violence.
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- Training Tools
January 2007
Domestic Violence Against Asian & Pacific Islander Women
Publisher(s):This curriculum is designed to guide advocates serving API survivors. It describes the impacts of violence over the lifecourse, dynamics of domestic violence against API women, and cases involving multiple batterers.
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- General Material
January 2007
Poverty and Sexual Violence: Building Prevention and Intervention Responses
Publisher(s):There is a complex and often reciprocal relationship between poverty and sexual violence. This guide is intended to support rape crisis centers in their economic advocacy efforts at all levels of the organization.
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- General Material
January 2007
Megan's Law and its Impact on Community Re-Entry for Sex Offenders
Publisher(s):Community notification, known as "Megan's Law," provides the public with information about known sex offenders in an effort to assist parents and potential victims to protect themselves from dangerous predators. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of community notification on the lives of registered sex offenders. Two hundred and thirty-nine sex offenders in Connecticut and Indiana were surveyed. The negative consequences that occurred with the greatest frequency included job loss, threats and harassment, property damage, and suffering of household members.
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January 2007
Trends in Workplace Homicides in the U.S., 1993-2002: A Decade of Decline
Publisher(s):This study found that type IV workplace homicides -- that is, those involving a personal relationship between the worker and the offender -- had actually declined significantly less than overall workplace homicides and declined the least of the four types.
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January 2007
Danger Assessment-Revised: For Use in Abusive Female Same-Sex Relationships (DA-R)
Publisher(s):The revised Danger Assessment (DA-R) is intended to predict reassault, not lethality, in abusive female same-sex relationships.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
January 2007
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) Communities and Domestic Violence: Information and Resources
Publisher(s):Domestic violence in LGBT communities is about abuse of power, manipulation, exploitation, oppression and barriers to service. This collection is designed for dv program advocates, activists working in LGBT communities and those wishing to become allies.
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- General Material
January 2007
Youth Social Marketing Toolkit
Publisher(s):This toolkit provides an overview of how agencies with limited financial resources can develop a social marketing campaign that reaches youth and young adults.
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- General Material
January 2007
The PILOTS Database
Publisher(s):The Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress (PILOTS) Database is an electronic index to the worldwide literature on PTSD and other mental health consequences of exposure to traumatic events.
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- General Material
January 2007
Helping Children Cope with the Death of a Loved One
Publisher(s): “Often when a loved one dies, we can best help children by offering simple, but straightforward answers to their questions.” This short document provides guidance for talking to children about the death of a loved one.
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January 2007
Faith Communities: Domestic Violence Protocol
Publisher(s):The purpose of these protocols is to provide all religious and lay leaders of New Hampshire with an action plan to safely respond to families in their faith communities who are experiencing domestic violence. This report was created by a collaboration of New Hampshire professionals with broader application to other states.