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May 2008

Research Shows that the Right Treatment for Adolescents Can Reduce Recidivism

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This brief article reviews an important examination into treatment of adolescents who have sexually abused.
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  • NRCDV Publications
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May 2008

Substance Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence

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This document provides an overview of the research on the relationship between substance abuse and woman battering, covering the victim's use of substances and the specific needs for domestic violence services for those with substance abuse problems.
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May 2008

Project Trust: a Report and Recommendations for Enhancing the Well-being of Native American Youth, Families and Communities

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Project trust members embarked on an effort to examine those things that have influenced both positive and negative challenges to providing behavioral health care for Native American adolescents.
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May 2008

Considering the Differences: Intimate Partner Sexual Violence in Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Discourse

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This article discusses the gap in services for survivors of intimate partner sexual violence and how both sexual assault and domestic violence service providers can help fill that gap.
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May 2008

Transcending Violence: Emerging Models for Trauma Healing in Refugee Communities

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This monograph is an introduction and overview of the issues involved in providing mental health trauma services for refugees in the United States. It is intended primarily for people who work in or care about the public mental health system.
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April 2008

Pediatricians Should Screen Moms for Domestic Violence

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This news article discusses a 2008 study by Dr. Bair-Merritt. Findings of the study underscore the need for pediatricians to screen mothers for domestic violence.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • General Material
April 2008

Incorporating Evaluation into Media Campaign Design

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This Applied Research paper provides information on core concepts relevant to media campaign evaluation strategies and showcases several sexual violence prevention campaigns that have completed evaluations at various stages of the implementation process.
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April 2008

Women in the Wake of the Storm: Examining the Post-Katrina Realities of the Women of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

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"This report shares findings garnered from a series of interviews held with a diverse group of women from throughout the Gulf region. In telling their stories, it provides an analysis of women's increased vulnerability during times of natural disasters and lays out policy recommendations that pinpoint how best to address those needs in the wake of this disaster, and in anticipation of the next."
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April 2008

First Response to Victims of Crime: A Guidebook for Law Enforcement Officers

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This guide book offers user-friendly information for law enforcement on how to respond to a wide range of victims. It attempts to highlight the most salient issues involved for victims of certain crimes and for certain populations of victims.
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April 2008

How We Gave up Curfew (and a lot of other rules, too)

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A program director reflects on how her program’s staff worked to pare down the shelter rules, rethinking what was necessary and reexamining their own investment in particular rules.
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March 2008

"I am at the lowest end of all": Rural women living with HIV face human rights abuses in South Africa

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This report provides an analysis of patterns of human rights abuses against women who are exposed to the risk of or are already living with HIV in rural contexts of widespread poverty and unemployment.
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March 2008

Community Notification as Viewed by Washington's Citizens: A 10-Year Follow-up

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As part of this evaluation, the Institute contracted in 1997 with the Social and Economic Sciences Research Center (SESRC) at Washington State University to conduct telephone interviews with a sample of Washington State residents regarding the community notification provisions of the Community Protection Act. In 2007, the Institute again contracted with SESRC to conduct a nearly identical survey and learn how responses may have changed.