Futures Without Violence Content Topic Results

"This document's purpose is to underscore the importance of the advocates work, provide tips for how to improve practice in this area, and inspire them to better understand women's situations and help them be safe and self-sufficient."

Updated in Summer 2001, This fact sheet lists statistics regarding domestic violence and/or battering incidents. The fact sheet lists statistics under the following headings: Prevalence; Health Consequences of Domestic Violence; Children's Health and Domestic Violence; Cost of Domestic Violence; Identification of Domestic Violence (highlighting present screening practices in health care settings); and Pregnancy.  

This brochure provides information to patients who abuse their wife or girlfriend and encourages them to seek help from their health care providers.

This article presents clinical guidelines on routine screening for domestic violence by primary health care providers. Appendices include a glossary of terms, suggested screening questions, and a sample domestic violence screening documentation form.

Fearing for their safety, victims of domestic violence who leave their abusers often need to keep their addresses and other contact information confidential. With the Internet making personal information more accessible than ever, the state of California has passed legislation that helps victims of abuse keep their addresses and other contact information out of the public domain.

This short document provides guidance for the development and implementation of a domestic violence protocol for use within a health care setting.

This fact sheet makes a case through statistics and information for why employers should prioritize addressing domestic violence.

This validated tool, which can be self-administered or administered by external evaluators, can be used to track and measure the progress of a hospital in improving its response to domestic violence.

This page includes a list of guidelines for working with men and boys. Each of the guidelines includes a description to help best understand these good practices.

This policy toolkit was designed to support schools looking to foster a culture of healthy relationships and prevent teen dating violence. The toolkit offers best practices around the prevention of dating violence, as well as guidelines for early intervention and crisis response.

This 3-part webinar series from Futures Without Violence's Supporting Organizational Sustainability (SOS) Project explores shared leadership models within survivor-serving organizations.

This poster informs the perpetrators of domestic violence about the negative effects of domestic violence on children and encourages the perpetrators to stop abuse.