Promising Futures is a resource for helping transform programs’ ability to effectively meet the needs of women, children and youth experiencing domestic violence through an asset-based, trauma-informed model
Defending Childhood: Protect, Heal, Thrive
Defending Childhood: Protect Heal Thrive by the Attorney General's National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence, US Department of Justice (December 2012)
Task Force Report on Resilience and Strength in African-American Children and Adolescents
WholeSomeBodies
Strategies for becoming an adult ally
Creating Safe Environments: Violence Prevention Strategies and Programs
"This report provides an overview of promising violence prevention initiatives across the nation, with special focus on the primary prevention of violence affecting youth and adult intimate partner violence. Specific attention is given to initiatives directed at particularly vulnerable populations, including racial/ethnic groups, immigrants, low-income populations, girls and women, and others.
Kid&TeenSAFE: An Abuse Prevention Program for Youth with Disabilities
This publication details a project of SafePlace's Disability Services ASAP (A Safety Awareness Program) in Texas and provides its model program materials for use with youth with disabilities.
First Steps: Taking Action Early To Prevent Violence
The report includes 15 specific recommendations, along with case studies and suggested activities at the individual, family, community, organizational, and policy levels.
Staff Screening Tool Kit, 3rd Edition
The tool kit discusses specific actions you should take, as well as issues you need to consider, before selecting an individual to serve in your organization. The screening process presented is based upon four overarching principles: legal compliance, systematic application of procedures, matching level of screening with position-specific risk factors, and applying uniform selection criteria to all applicants for a specific position.
Stand & Serve Primary Prevention Program Theory
Peer Solutions works with an evidence-based "Stand & Serve" prevention model. The "Stand & Serve" approach utilizes developmental assets/positive youth development, community development, social norms, diffusion of innovation/peer education, social change, and marketing research to prevent violence.
Honor Our Voices: Children's Perspectives of Domestic Violence
This online learning module features the diaries of three children in different age groups, sharing their experiences of exposure to domestic violence and offering related best practice themes for shelter advocates and other social service providers. Includes a downloadable guide for practice and a digital library of short audio programs.