Sexual Violence Content Topic Results

The 5 Steps to Protecting Our Children is an introductory guide to help adults protect children from sexual abuse. Using an evidence-informed approach, these guidelines provide simple and practical actions you can take to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse.

These online learning sessions for young people of various ages explore feelings about relationships, the meaning and responsibilities of being part of a family, circles of friendships, and qualities of good friends.

The wheel describes abusive tactics that batterers use to control their victims, focusing on how they may be experienced within the context of a relationship rooted in the military. Specific tactics are described in the wheel, including "Claiming Military/ Male Privilege."

The report includes 15 specific recommendations, along with case studies and suggested activities at the individual, family, community, organizational, and policy levels.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the unintended consequences of policies that restrict where sex offenders can live.

This article examines the rationale for working with men and boys for gender equality; describes key findings from multi-country studies about the relationship between notions of masculinities and men’s gender-related practices; documents key principles guiding much gender equality work with men and boys; identifies emerging strategies and proposes key next steps to increase the scale, impact, and sustainability of gender transformative work with men and boys.

This fact sheet provides information about sex offender registration requirements to juvenile offenders who are adjudicated delinquent of a sex offense.

This information sheet provides tips to young people to help their peers who experience relationship violence.

This toolkit was written to support community-based approaches to violence intervention.

This tool can be used by healthcare providers to screen patients who may be experiencing or have experienced trauma.

This list provides bibliographic references for the 2-part VAWnet Special Collection series, Trauma-Informed Domestic Violence Services.

This guide contains information for advocates on identifying and working with LGBT specific elder abuse. The guide covers terms, historical factors related to LGBT elders, new rights and protections for LGBT elders and suggested practices in working with LGBT older adults.