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Resilience / Healing Content Topic Results

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Results displayed are grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections then by individual related materials. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
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January 2008

Gender-Responsive Program Assessment

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Being gender-responsive means creating an environment through site selection, staff selection, program development, content, and material that reflects an understanding of the lives of women and girls and responds to their strengths and challenges. This assessment provides a tool to evaluate the gender responsiveness of programs.
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January 2008

Disaster Preparation and Recovery: Lessons from Research on Resilience in Human Development

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While this paper focuses on resilience in the face of disaster, it also provides a helpful overview of the resilience research literature. The authors build on four decades of theory and research on resilience in human development to offer lessons for planning disaster response and recovery, lessons that are also relevant for domestic violence survivors and their children.
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January 2008

The Amazing Brain: Trauma and the Potential for Healing

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Designed specifically for parents and caregivers, this resource describes how the brain works, how it is affected by trauma, and how it can heal.
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January 2008

Vicarious Trauma Handout

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This handout addresses some of the psychological and spiritual changes that humanitarian workers may experience. It the common symptoms of vicarious trauma and provides guidance for coping.
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January 2008

Using Trauma-Informed AOD Treatment Practices to Improve Outcomes for African-American Survivors of Domestic Violence

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African American women have as high, and in some studies higher, rates of trauma as women from other racial groups in substance abuse treatment. This article recommends numerous trauma-informed practices to be used by programs specifically working with women who have experienced trauma. It also recommends a simple agency assessment to identify specific strengths and weaknesses in terms of being able to effectively address trauma.
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January 2008

Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and cognitive injuries, their consequences and services to assist recovery

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This report highlights the psychological toll of deployments involving prolonged exposure to combat-related stress over multiple rotations and how these types of deployments may be disproportionately high compared with the physical injuries of combat.
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January 2008

Getting Safe and Sober: Real Tools You Can Use - Support Group Manual and Supplementary Materials for Advocates

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Getting Safe and Sober is a practical tool kit for use with women who have substance abuse or chemical dependence problems and who are, or have been, victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or sexual abuse.
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November 2007

Freedom from Violence: Tools for Working with Trauma, Mental Health and Substance Use

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This comprehensive toolkit includes information, personal stories, and guides for specific situations for service providers. It works within an Anti-Oppression Perspective and uses a Harm Reduction Framework to promote safety for women who have experienced trauma, mental health problems, and substance abuse, issues which are highly pertinent to any domestic violence shelter.
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August 2007

A Science-Based Framework for Early Childhood Policy: Using Evidence to Improve Outcomes in Learning, Behavior, and Health for Vulnerable Children

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This paper builds on a process of systematic analysis that began with the publication in 2000 of a landmark report by the National Academy of Sciencesentitled From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development, followed bythe ongoing work of the National Scientific Councilon the Developing Child and the National Forumon Early Childhood Program Evaluation, both of which are based at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.
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May 2007

Children First: A Guide for Service Providers Working with Children Exposed to Family Violence

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This manual reviews programming issues and considerations for children 12 years and younger affected by intimate partner violence. It contains information that could be helpful for service providers in developing or modifying children’s programming.
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January 2007

Helping Children Cope with the Death of a Loved One

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“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

The PILOTS Database

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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.