Engagement & Collaboration Content Topic Results
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- General Material
January 2004
Ending Gender-Based Violence: A call for global action to involve men
Publisher(s):This document includes the paper Costs of Male Violence by Stefan de Vylder as its Appendix. "In this report, seven masculinity researchers write about masculinity in different parts of the world and about how masculinity is often linked to violence. These acts of violence are committed not only against women and children, but also against other men. The writers suggest a number of ways in which men can be involved in working to combat men's violence."
The argument presented in this paper is articulated through 13 key principles:
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- General Material
January 2004
Global Perspectives on Sexual Violence: Findings from the World Report on Violence and Health
Publisher(s):This report seeks to offer a glimpse of the "serious global public health problem" that is sexual violence as well as promising practices and opportunities for those working to end sexual violence.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 2004
Mental Health Response to Mass Violence and Terrorism: A Training Manual
Publisher(s):U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
This manual is geared towards service providers responding to victims and community at large following incidents of mass violence and terrorism.
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- General Material
January 2004
Advocacy Matters: Helping Mothers and Their Children Involved with the Child Protection System
Publisher(s):"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."
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- General Material
January 2004
Through a Public Health Lens. Preventing Violence against Women: An Update from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publisher(s):Explains how 4 core public health principles - emphasizing primary prevention, advancing the science of prevention, translating science into effective programs, & building on the efforts of others - drive current programmatic activities in prevention.
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- General Material
December 2003
Model Protocol For Advocates Working With Battered Women Involved In The Child Protection System
Publisher(s):This protocol contains an introduction that outlines the origins and key features of CPS, and recommended policy and procedures. Covered are: individual advocacy strategies, determining if a mandatory report is required, making a mandatory report, reviewing case files, and advocating in court.
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- General Material
December 2003
Preventing Sexual Re-victimization: Tailoring Prevention for Previously Victimized Women
Publisher(s):This article offers insight into how we might tailor sexual violence prevention programs to specifically address issues of re-victimization.
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- General Material
November 2003
Reviewing Domestic Violence Deaths
Publisher(s):This documents provides an overview of fatality review, highlighting how this tool may help reduce intimate partner homicide.
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- General Material
November 2003
How Can Practitioners Help an Abused Woman Lower Her Risk of Death?
Publisher(s):This article presents key findings from the Chicago Women’s Health Study about domestic violence, its effects, and women’s responses to violence.
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- General Material
October 2003
Community Policing and Domestic Violence: Five Promising Practices
Publisher(s):This document provides a discussion of how community policing principles might intersect with the core principles of domestic violence organizing: victim safety, offender accountability, and community change.
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- General Material
September 2003
Collaboration Math: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Publisher(s):This paper describes Collaboration Math, "a tool developed to help individuals and groups representing different disciplines, organizations or constituencies work together effectively."
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
September 2003
Sexual Assault in Rural Communities
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
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.