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 This was written to provide domestic violence advocates with information and strategies to promote the use of HUD's new welfare-to-work housing vouchers as a resource to assist battered women receiving public assistance. The paper identifies barriers faced by many battered women as they attempt to move from welfare to work and identifies how the new voucher program can help women overcome these obstacles.

This manual provides community sexual assault programs with a rationale for implementing a social change/community development model for prevention programming. Contains practical examples of tools and instruments used by leaders in the prevention field.

The Minnesota Center for Crime Victim Services and the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault, along with a workgroup of various MN sexual violence prevention organizations, agencies and individuals created this kit to support community sexual violence prevention efforts.

This document provides basic information on the many ways to use the media to disseminate messages about domestic violence to the American public. A set of sample media materials is included.

This brochure describes the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide (SARA) and its ability to help determine the degree to which an individual poses a domestic violence threat to his/her partner, children, another family member, or another person involved.

This publication provides information and assistance to staff in higher education and/or domestic violence programs who are interested in developing a comprehensive response to dating abuse as it affects students on college campuses.

This publication describes effective collaborations between battered women's shelters and several community entities.

This fact sheet offers statistics from several research studies investigating the connection between animal cruelty and human violence, domestic violence, and child abuse.

Highlights how eight domestic violence organizations are responding to the housing needs of battered women in their communities. Projects highlighted are: Elizabeth Stone House in Massachusetts; Stop Abusive Family Environments (SAFE) in West Virginia; Middle Way House, Inc. in Indiana; Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence; Women Opting for More Affordable Housing Now, Inc.(WOMAN, Inc.) in Texas; Project Link in Pennsylvania; Boulder County Safe House in Colorado; and, Family Unification Program in Iowa.

This paper advocates the adoption of an agenda that recognizes the importance of safety, justice and economic resources for women and their families and urges that advocates pay particular attention to the concerns and interests of poor women.

The book offers guidelines and checklists to use in implementing a proactive and comprehensive response to date rape crimes on college campuses.

This document highlights the importance of parental monitoring to protect their children from become victims of sexual abuse. It provides guidance to parents to effectively monitor their children's activities, whereabouts, and companions without being overly intrusive.