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"This report provides an overview of promising violence prevention initiatives across the nation, with special focus on the primary prevention of violence affecting youth and adult intimate partner violence. Specific attention is given to initiatives directed at particularly vulnerable populations, including racial/ethnic groups, immigrants, low-income populations, girls and women, and others.

This manual provides a step-by-step approach to understanding how cost-benefit thinking can be applied to domestic violence prevention. Each chapter offers an overview, definition and discussion of relevant terms, statistics and examples, and user-friendly worksheets.

This document describes how information contained in deleted files on one's personal hard drive may be recoverable or found in other files. It describes methods for secure file deletion, including a list of resources for free and commercial tools.

This paper explores the challenges, opportunities and lessons learned in the course of providing consultation and technical assistance about domestic violence protocol development at sites currently receiving federal funds for healthy marriage activities, and with domestic violence advocates attempting to partner with these programs and others. By way of establishing a context for the analysis, the paper provides a brief discussion on domestic violence prevalence and links to the marriage promotion debate.

This document offers tips to children and teens on how to stay safe while socializing online. It also provides a list of organization where they can go to learn more about online safety.

Briefly outlines selected US federal sex and labor trafficking cases, and cases of sexual violence and labor trafficking and sex tourism. TVPA and PROTECT Act of 2003 also mentioned.

Initial research and impact of these measures on local workers, businesses and communities is also reviewed. Differences with living wage and our wage legislation are covered.

This study reveals that the rate of abuse is higher among immigrant women who are married to American citizens. Examples of immigration-related tactics of abuse are provided.

This report sheds some light on the history of Iraqi women's rights and status prior to the war to recent context. It also aims to dispel 'myths, misconceptions and even outright lies about Iraqi women's roles and status.' (3) In the preface, Dr. Nadje Al-Ali asserts that although Saddam Hussein's dictatorship undeniably and systematically oppressed women, Iraqi women were among the better off in the region. She goes on further to say that Iraqi women's agency has been challenged by being relegated to the home and subject to stricter private mores.

This BCS newsletter features the Allstate Foundation’s Domestic Violence Program. The main article covers the three primary program components and highlights activities of the FY05 state domestic violence coalition grantees.

This paper describes how one local domestic violence program, located in Chelsea, MA, built an innovative organization that transformed services, improving options for women's safety and their families' well-being.

This document provides a review and critique of current trends in mental health assessment and treatment for sexual trauma survivors with an emphasis on early intervention. Treatment approaches are restricted to psychotherapy.