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Sexual Violence 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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July 2025

Working With Survivors in Jail: A Manual for Community-Based Advocates

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This manual provides information and strategies to help community-based advocates provide effective and holistic support to incarcerated victims of battering.
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  • NRCDV Publications
  • Training Tools
June 2025

WEBINAR: A Shock to the System: Strategies for Victim Service Providers to Effectively Respond to Disasters

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This interactive webinar, featuring The Cloudburst Group, addresses disaster planning and response for organizations who serve individuals and families impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking.
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June 2025

Operational Considerations: Organizational Guidelines for Screening for IPV/HT - IPV/HT Series

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This session explains how community health centers can develop organizational systems for identifying and responding to intimate partner violence (IPV) and human trafficking (HT), emphasizing trauma-informed care, staff training, screening, safety, and community partnerships.
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May 2025

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Impact of IPV/HT - Identifying and Responding to IPV/HT Series

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This session introduces healthcare professionals to the realities of human trafficking, emphasizing how force, fraud, coercion, trauma, and online recruitment can affect survivors and how trafficking may present in healthcare settings.
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May 2025

What Turns You On: Unhealthy vs. Healthy Sex

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This webinar is a part of the “What Turns You On Series” by Center For Healthy Sex, examining the differences between healthy and unhealthy sexual behaviors, emphasizing the roles of shame, trauma, intimacy, authenticity, and emotional connection in shaping sexual experiences.
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April 2025

Equip Yourself to Stop Child Sexual Abuse

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Child sexual abuse is a widespread and preventable problem, and adults play a critical role in recognizing warning signs, responding to disclosures, and creating environments where children feel safe speaking up. Prevention depends on open communication, awareness of grooming behaviors, and prompt reporting when abuse is suspected.
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April 2025

Safe Leave Documentation & Confidentiality Rules

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This document builds upon the working group’s previously released product, The Need for Paid Safe Leave & Model Legislative Language, which provided model legislative language regarding paid safe leave. It includes recommendations for when workers can be required to provide documentation for safe leave claims, and, where required, what types of documentation options should be allowed.
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April 2025

The Facts About Child Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and Recovery

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Child sexual abuse is a widespread and preventable form of trauma that can have significant long-term effects on a child’s mental, physical, behavioral, and social well-being. The video emphasizes trauma-informed, multidisciplinary support and the importance of caring adults and evidence-based treatment in helping children heal and regain a sense of safety.
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March 2025

Supporting Men Survivors

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A trauma-informed resource that highlights the unique needs of male survivors of intimate partner violence and strategies for providing accessible, culturally responsive support.
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  • NRCDV Publications
November 2024

ARP Series: What do advocates need to know about the connections between missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW), gender-based violence, and COVID-19?

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This Technical Assistance Question (TAQ) explores the prevalence of gender-based violence among Native women, COVID-19's impact on the Indigenous population, and how they connect to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit movement.
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October 2024

Policy Recommendations to Increase Safe Housing for Survivors: Learning from & Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships

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On October 12-13, 2023 the Office of Family Violence Prevention Services hosted a roundtable discussion on safe housing solutions for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. This report shares key insights and recommendations that emerged from the roundtable.
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October 2024

When Men Murder Women An Analysis of 2022 Homicide Data

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An annual report analyzing national homicide data to examine the characteristics and circumstances of women killed by men, highlighting the role of firearms, intimate partner violence, and racial disparities.