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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- General Material
January 2010
What to do if you've been the victim of a hate crime
Publisher(s):This resource provides information on what a person who has experienced a hate crime can do to report it and find support.
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- Training Tools
- General Material
January 2010
The Needs of Children in Domestic Violence Shelters
Publisher(s):This toolkit for service providers is a teaching tool and guide for understanding how trauma from domestic violence impacts children and how best to serve these children's needs. Although it was designed for use by shelter-based and other domestic violence direct service providers in North Carolina, it has broad applicability.
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- General Material
January 2010
¡Sí Podemos! Yes We Can/Beyond Domestic Violence: Achieving Financial Independence Video
Publisher(s):This video (English and Spanish version) accompanies the Achieving Financial Independence Curriculum. It features the lives and struggles of 5 Latina survivors of domestic violence who were able to start their own business and become financially independent.
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- General Material
January 2010
Making Justice: Sources of Healing for Incest Survivors
Publisher(s): Rev. Dr. Fortune outlines the need for justice in order to allow victims of incest to heal from the trauma of childhood abuse. Truth-telling is central to finding and creating justice.
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- General Material
January 2010
Supporting the Mother/Child Bond to Build Strength & Resiliency: Strategies for Domestic Violence Advocates
Publisher(s):This document offers 13 key elements of a strong mother/child relationship for families who have lived with domestic violence and offers concrete suggestions for advocacy and support.
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- General Material
January 2010
Enhancing Services to Children and Youth in Virginia Exposed to Violence: A Report on a Demonstration Project Funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Family Violence Prevention and Services Program, 2006-2008
Publisher(s):This report offers a project description, detailed project activities and outcomes, and resource development information.
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- General Material
January 2010
Building Resilience: The Power to Cope With Adversity
Publisher(s):This resource provides a synopsis of resiliency capabilities within the individual child, family, care-giving, and community levels. It states children who have grown up in challenging environments are still capable of engaging in age-appropriate activities, relating to others, and understanding their family life.
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- General Material
October 2009
Intimate Partner Violence and Barriers to Mental Healthcare for Ethnically Diverse Populations of Women
Publisher(s):Ethnically diverse populations of women, particularly survivors of intimate partner violence, experience many barriers to mental health care. Attention to the barriers to mental health care for ethnically diverse survivors of IPV can help inform the development of more effective strategies for health care practice and policy.
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- General Material
September 2009
Girls Do What They Have to Do to Survive: Illuminating Methods Used by Girls in the Sex Trade and Street Economy to Fight Back and Heal
Publisher(s): This participatory action research study by the Young Women's Empowerment Project, a social justice organizing project led by and for young people of color who have current or former experience in the sex trade and street economies, addresses the violence that girls in sex trade and street economies face, as well as their resilience and resistance methods.
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- General Material
July 2009
Creating Cultures of Trauma-Informed Care (CCTIC): A Self-Assessment and Planning Protocol
Publisher(s):This Self-Assessment and Planning Protocol and its accompanying CCTIC Program Self-Assessment Scale provide consistent guidelines for agencies or programs interested in facilitating trauma-informed modifications in their service systems.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
July 2009
Battered Women's Protective Strategies
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This Applied Research paper adopts a holistic approach to understand battered women’s protective strategies, reviewing a wide range of strategies used by women to cope with numerous threats posed by battering, not just the threat of bodily harm.
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- General Material
June 2009
How to Start and Facilitate a Support Group for Victims of Stalking
Publisher(s):A guide for victim service providers, volunteers, and other concerned community members on how to initiate and run a stalking support group in their agency or community.