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January 2010
Training Professionals in the Primary Prevention of Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence: A Planning Guide
Publisher(s):This Guide describes how to develop, implement, and evaluate a training process, taking into account your available level of resources - by turning awareness and knowledge into mastered skills and practices to prevent sexual or intimate partner violence. It is intended for use by state-level entities providing training to community based organizations (CBOs) or to other state- level entities as well as for CBOs providing training within their own organizations or to other professionals in their communities.
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Understanding Child Maltreatment
Publisher(s):This resource provides a quick overview of different types of child abuse, including sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse and neglect. It also includes a brief overview of the CDCÍs approach to prevention.
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January 2010
Dating Matters: Understanding Teen Dating Violence Prevention
Publisher(s):Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
This free, online VetoViolence course provides educators with a basic knowledge of teen dating violence prevention.
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January 2010
Evaluation for Improvement: A Seven-step Empowerment Evaluation Approach for Violence Prevention Organizations
Publisher(s):This manual is designed to help violence prevention organizations hire an empowerment evaluator who will assist them in building their evaluation capacity through a learn-by-doing process of evaluating their own strategies.
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Sexual Violence: Facts at a Glance
Publisher(s):This fact sheet includes the following categories: adults, health disparities, college age, children and youth (17 years or younger), non-fatal injuries and medical treatment and perpetrators.
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February 2008
When Closeness Goes Wrong
Publisher(s):In this 8 minute podcast, Dr. Michele Black discusses a link between intimate partner violence and illnesses, including asthma, arthritis, stroke, increased heavy or binge drinking, smoking, and risk factors such as HIV or sexually transmitted diseases.
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Electronic Media and Youth Violence: A CDC Issue Brief for Educators and Caregivers
Publisher(s):The brief summarizes what is known about young people and electronic aggression, provides strategies for addressing the issue with young people, and discusses the implications for school staff, education policy makers, and parents and caregivers.
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The Effects of Childhood Stress on Health Across the Lifespan
Publisher(s):This document summarizes the available research on childhood stress and its implications for adult health and well-being. Of particular interest is the stress caused by child abuse, neglect, and repeated exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV). This publication provides violence prevention practitioners with ideas about how to incorporate information on childhood stress into their work.
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June 2007
The Effectiveness of Universal School-Based Programs for the Prevention of Violent and Aggressive Behavior
Publisher(s):This&issue&of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Vol. 56, No. RR-7)&provides a summary of findings from a review of evidence concerning the effectiveness of universal school-based violence prevention programs.
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January 2007
Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence Victimization Assessment Instruments for Use in Healthcare Settings, Version 1.0
Publisher(s):This compilation provides practitioners and clinicians with an inventory of existing assessment tools for determining intimate partner violence and/or sexual violence victimization in clinical/healthcare settings.
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January 2007
Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Within Youth Serving Organizations: Getting Started on Policies and Procedures
Publisher(s):Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
This guide identifies six key components of child sexual abuse prevention for organizations. It includes prevention goals and critical strategies for each component. Suggestions for addressing challenges and tools to help organizations get started are also provided.
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Preventing Child Sexual Abuse within Youth-serving Organizations: Getting Started on Policies and Procedures
Publisher(s):Whether these strategies are developed within the context of an overall risk management plan or are addressed separately, organizations need to examine how they can protect youth from sexual abuse.