Sexual Violence Content Topic Results

Developed based on interviews with Deaf survivors of domestic violence, this power and control wheel highlights some of the dynamics of abuse when the abuser is a hearing individual.

This report includes findings from a national needs assessment that was conducted by the NSVRC in 2005 with support from the Office for Victims of Crime. The goals of the survey were to (1) record the organization and administration of Sexual Assault Response Teams (SART) nationally as an introductory 'portrait' of collaborative responses and (2) collect data about SART training and technical assistance needs for inclusion in a forthcoming National SART Toolkit.

This curriculum is designed to educate elders in Pennsylvania communities about sexual violence. The primary audience of this curriculum is persons over the age of 60 who live in a community and do not require full time health care.

The document highlights and synthesizes issues and concerns related to addressing VAW globally. Promising practices from different countries to address VAW in areas of law, service provision, and prevention are included. The document concludes with recommendations for action in seven key strategic areas.

This document discusses various levels of prevention and focuses on primary prevention strategies for intimate partner violence. It also explores health care professionals' role in primary prevention of intimate partner violence.

Addresses positions on trafficking and sex work, as well as various legislative and international human rights responses.

This toolkit emphasizes comprehensive strategies based on a human rights framework.

This Q&A document explains the key housing provisions of VAWA 2005, including housing-related grant programs, amendments to public housing and section 8 regarding eviction defense, eligibility, and portability, HMIS changes, and new planning requirements.

This brochure is designed to raise awareness of services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans communities.

This manual suggests strategies for organizing, how to work together as a group, how to ensure that the group stays together, how to start an agency to provide culturally specific services, and how to negotiate and improve the system.

It provides an overview of the dynamics and key issues warranting attention when considering reunification and preservation with sex offenders as part of a broader, more comprehensive approach to sex offender management.

This qualitative study report examines domestic violence in older women. The report presents older women's definition of domestic violence, their views about causes, reporting, interventions, and consequences for perpetrators, and barriers to help seeking.