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Knowledge leads to empowerment. Victim Advocates: Your Guide to Sex Offender Containment Teams
Publisher(s):This booklet introduces a new approach to helping victims of sexual violence. This approach, called the victim-centered 'Sex Offender Containment Model', may be a significant change in the way many do advocacy work.
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Abuse in Later Life: A Webinar Series for Civil Attorneys and Legal Advocates
Publisher(s):National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence
This is a recorded 5-part webinar series on Abuse in Later Life. The target audience includes civil attorneys, legal advocates and others who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the topics.
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School And District Policies To Increase Student Safety And Improve School Climate: Promoting Healthy Relationships And Preventing Teen Dating Violence
Publisher(s):This policy toolkit was designed to support schools looking to foster a culture of healthy relationships and prevent teen dating violence. The toolkit offers best practices around the prevention of dating violence, as well as guidelines for early intervention and crisis response.
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Etiquette Tips for Working with Deaf/Hard of Hearing Individuals
Publisher(s):This one-pager offers tips for hearing advocates to engage in effective, respectful communication with Deaf or hard of hearing individuals.
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Reasons Why We Can't Profile Sex Offenders
Publisher(s):The author of this article discusses how researchers have developed "typologies" of sex offenders and have focused on describing characteristics of adult and adolescent sex offender, both males and females and that although this information is helpful none of it speaks of erotic development and its connection with the sex disorder or Paraphilia Disorder.
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Building Dignity
Publisher(s): The Building Dignity website offers a range of solutions and strategies for domestic violence emergency shelters to increase their capacity to provide supportive housing for all survivors, including LGBTQ survivors.
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Media Guide: Choking versus Strangulation
Publisher(s):This guide aims to help reporters, copywriters, headline writers, and editors understand the distinction between choking – an accidental internal obstruction of the airway, and strangulation – a tactic of control and abuse.
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Fact Sheet: Domestic Violence and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Relationships
Publisher(s):A fact sheet about domestic violence among the LGBT population that includes information on the power and control wheel for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans relationships, information on survivors, types of abuse, transgender abuse, HIV/AIDS related abuse and barriers to seeking services.
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Help A Friend
Publisher(s):This information sheet provides tips to young people to help their peers who experience relationship violence.
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Shifting Power from the Inside Out: Lessons on Becoming Member-Led from Mujeres Unidas y Activas
Publisher(s): Produced collaboratively by Mujeres Unidas y Activas and RoadMap, Shifting Power from the Inside Out offers a new framework for community-based organizations on the evolution from member-based to member-led organizational structure, culture and practice.
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Reproductive Justice Briefing Book: A Primer on Reproductive Justice and Social Change
Publisher(s):Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP), SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
This is the expanded and updated version of the book. The idea and original edition was developed in collaboration with many people in preparation and for distribution at the 2007 U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta.
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Aging with Respect Safety Card
Publisher(s): This safety card provides guidance to health and community professionals on how to talk to patients about any concerning behavior of those around them and encourages early education about emotional, physical, and financial harassment, abuse and neglect.