Sexual Violence Content Topic Results

This annotated bibliography features articles that address sexuality and sexual violence in religious text and related literature. It reviews research regarding clergy and sexual violence and faith-based responses as well as religious perspectives concerning sexuality and sexual violence.

American Indian women living on Indian reservations experience unique challenges that intensify the epidemic of violence against them. Accurate statistical data quantifying incidences of violence against women on reservations, or “Indian country,” is in small quantity.

This represents an increase of more than three times 2010's six LGBTQH IPV homicides. This dramatic increase in reported IPV homicides illustrates the severity and deadly impact of LGBTQH IPV. Also in the 2011 report, NCAVP analyzes person-level data for the first time. Person-level data allows NCAVP to assess which LGBTQH survivors faced disproportionate rates of violence and service discrimination as compared to overall LGBTQH survivors.

This document expands the scope of routine screening for IPV to include assessment for reproductive and sexual coercion. A trauma-informed, comprehensive approach to relationship violence that includes behaviors that interfere with patients reproductive health can improve the quality of care and reproductive health outcomes including higher contraceptive compliance, fewer unintended pregnancies, preventing coerced and repeat abortions, and reducing sexually transmitted infections (STIs)/HIV and associated risk behaviors.

This special report summarized key findings from NISVS data demonstrating the widespread nature of sexual violence in the United States, with many victims under the age of 18 when they first experience it.

Often, people assume that sexual violence and harassment are a fact of life. However, much of what we accept as inevitable is in fact the expression of values and attitudes that can evolve. This pyramid represents a continuum of abuse, highlighting the ways in which common attitudes and beliefs uphold and form the basis for more extreme acts of violence.

This safety card for women can be distributed by perinatal health care providers to patients. The card outlines questions women may ask themselves about their relationships, birth control use and parenting, while offering supportive messages and referrals to national support services for help. Available in English and Spanish.

This three-part series of interactive online courses discuss the connections among sexual violence and disasters and offer recommendations for creating a pre-disaster plan for sexual violence prevention and response.

This report presents guidelines on incorporating effective gender-based violence prevention and response for colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher education.

The patient safety card provides information for patients on safety and safety planning and help patients recognize how their relationship may impact their health as well as the lives of their children. This tool is most effective when placed in private areas and may be given to patients routinely as part of regular visits, or upon disclosure of abuse. (Available in English, Spanish, and Chinese)

This document offers an overview of performance measures, offers strategies for “flagging” elder abuse cases, and provides logistics and tools required to collect, analyze and interpret each measure.

This is a fact sheet that provides a scenario and discussion to promote a conversation between youth and caregivers around consent and respect.