National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) Content Topic Results

This summary provides information on MIÕs efforts to develop a feminist, empowerment-based framework for providing transitional supportive housing for survivors of domestic violence. It describes who was interviewed and gives a brief summary of the results of the study, which includes information on eligibility, services offered, rules and regulations, safety, relationship with staff, most helpful services and what would happen if transitional housing had not been available.

This document addresses our current level of understanding of sexual assault in rural areas as it affects both victims and service providers, identifying the need to recognize a wide variety of rural configurations and cultural characteristics.

Despite many similarities, the risk factors for and consequences of sexual violence within adolescent relationships differs from adult marital or cohabiting relationships. As such, programs must be tailored to meet the specialized needs of the population.

This is a manual that provides practical strategies for the evaluation of domestic violence coordinating councils, task forces and committees in order to make the process of evaluation easier.

This is a guide for promoting public education in rural and Native American communities.

As public recognition of domestic violence and sexual assault has reached increasing heights, there has been an outcry for more effective prevention programs. This paper looks at these prevention programs.

Documents the development and growth of the first and only recognized culturally-specific family violence intervention and prevention program in Wisconsin which employs methods specific to serving African American families.

This paper describes results from interviews with 55 women across six transitional housing supportive housing programs in a midwestern state. Women's recommendations for transitional housing are discussed.

Over 100 domestic violence and sexual assault activists of color participated in these focus groups. The report includes highlights from their conversations regarding issues, barriers & recommendations for battered women of color with children.

Nearly 77 million people more than a quarter of the total US population are age 50 or older (US Census Bureau 2000). So there must be many victims of domestic violence in later life, correct? A question that this document explores.

This document describes how the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV) approached integrating economic advocacy into its work in order to better respond to the financial concerns of battered women and their families.

This paper provides a summary of the research on the connections between poverty, public assistance, employment, and violence against women. Implications for working with battered women who receive TANF are discussed in detail.