Resilience / Healing Content Topic Results

This Technical Assistance Guidance, a product of the Adult Children Exposed to Domestic Violence (ACE-DV) Leadership Forum, explores the connection between exposure to domestic violence in childhood and, among other consequences, the risk for suicide in adulthood.

This resource provides information on racial and ethnic identity development. It includes a link to a toolbox for additional resources.

This report presents findings from the Learning Community Model for Implementation to develop a promising methodology to help service organizations adopt and sustain the practices and principles of trauma-informed care.

This paper from the Center for Court Innovation discusses if and how restorative practices can safely and effectively address intimate partner violence. It also outlines the rationale for exploring alternative approaches to addressing intimate partner violence and provides guidelines that practitioners can use to develop relevant policies and principles for these interventions.

This document provides information and directions on somatic experiencing and felt sense (e.g. textures, color, and sensations).

This mobile app provide meditation and stress relief techniques.

This link provides instructions on how to create and use a glitter jar to help in relaxation practices.

This toolkit provides resources to help adults promote safe and positive use of media for youth.

This mobile app provides over 500 different yoga poses, music, and links to social media community.

As we naturally reflect on the year that has passed, questions may arise about how to set and achieve life goals and envision the short- and long-term future. This Technical Assistance Guidance explores the New Year’s holiday as an opportunity for domestic violence programs to engage in positive visioning with advocates and survivors.

Resilience is an innate human capacity that can be learned and developed in anyone. NRCDV's November 2015 TA Question of the month explores this concept and offers strategies for building resilience.

This article discusses the idea of narratives of women’s experiences of rape. It addresses the ways in which narratives are often shaped for and by the judicial system, and explores other ways of reconstructing rape narratives.