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Results displayed are grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections then by individual related materials. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
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January 2012
Victims with Brain Injuries in Domestic Violence Support Groups
Publisher(s):This handout offers helpful tips for assisting a domestic violence victim who has a traumatic brain injury within a support group setting.
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- General Material
December 2011
Making a Connection When Trauma Affects Interaction and Communication
Publisher(s):This Conversation Guide is designed to help you increase your staff's ability to support survivors when trauma affects interaction and communication.
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- General Material
November 2011
Domestic Violence Materials in Asian & Pacific Islander Languages
Publisher(s): The Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence assembled this compilation of over 500 resources on domestic violence translated into 32 Asian and Pacific Islander languages.
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November 2011
Model Medication Policy for DV Shelters
Publisher(s):The Model Medication Policy is designed to offer guidance to domestic violence programs on adopting medication policies that are accessible, trauma informed, and compliant with anti-discrimination laws.
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- General Material
November 2011
Practical Tips for Increasing Access to Services
Publisher(s): This document is part of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, & Mental Health’s Creating Trauma-Informed Services Tipsheet Series and discusses practical steps that advocates can take to consider survivors’ mental well-being while they are participating in programming.
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August 2011
Tips for Making Connections with Survivors Experiencing Psychiatric Disabilities
Publisher(s):This tip sheet gives practical recommendations for DV advocates working with survivors who are experiencing psychiatric disabilities.
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- General Material
August 2011
Tips for Creating a Welcoming Environment
Publisher(s):This tip sheet gives recommendations about creating welcoming environments for people who have experienced domestic abuse and other traumatic events.
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- General Material
June 2011
Fact Sheet: HIV/AIDS and Disability
Publisher(s):This fact sheet discusses the risks of HIV for people with disabilities, and what agencies can do to respond—through institutional changes at the agency level and in advocating for national policy change.
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- General Material
April 2011
Forging New Collaborations: A Guide for Rape Crisis, Domestic Violence, and Disability Organizations
Publisher(s):Vera Institute of Justice’s Center on Victimization and Safety has created a roadmap for bringing together agencies at the intersection of violence and disability so that they can create a new and effective approach to safety, healing, and accessibility to services for their clients.
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- General Material
March 2011
Women, Disability and Violence: Strategies to Increase Physical and Programmatic Access to Victims Services for Women with Disabilities
Publisher(s):This article strives to balance fairly and effectively the voices and needs of individuals with disabilities with those of service providers who provide either disability or domestic violence/sexual assault services. The intent of this article to is to highlight opportunities for positive change, hopefully in a way that will help empower service providers as well as victims and survivors with disabilities.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 2011
Facilitating Access to TANF for Battered Immigrants: A Pilot Training Manual for TANF Eligibility Workers
Publisher(s):This training manual provides information to TANF eligibility workers on how to access TANF for qualified alien immigrant survivors.
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- Training Tools
January 2011
Somewhere to Turn: Making Domestic Violence Services Accessible to Battered Immigrant Women - A 'How To' Manual For Battered Women's Advocates and Service Providers
This manual addresses the dynamics of domestic violence in immigrant families; ways to create agency-wide cultural competency training programs; multicultural approaches to shelter protocol development; recruiting and hiring multicultural staff; foreign language needs and helpful interviewing techniques for client intake sessions and meetings; ways to do outreach and collaboration with immigrant communities; and, descriptions of model programs.