Intervention & Prevention Content Topic Results
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- General Material
January 1999
Sexual Assault Prevention Resource Manual
Publisher(s):This manual provides community sexual assault programs with a rationale for implementing a social change/community development model for prevention programming. Contains practical examples of tools and instruments used by leaders in the prevention field.
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- General Material
January 1999
Community Development & Sexual Violence Prevention: Creating Partnerships for Social Change
Publisher(s):Created to assist community-based sexual assault programs with community development initiatives. Its theoretical basis is the work of Loftquist in 'The Technology of Prevention Workbook: A Leadership Development Program.'
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
January 1999
New Challenges for the Battered Women's Movement: Building Collaborations and Improving Public Policy for Poor Women
Publisher(s):This paper advocates the adoption of an agenda that recognizes the importance of safety, justice and economic resources for women and their families and urges that advocates pay particular attention to the concerns and interests of poor women.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 1999
A Place to Start: A Resource Kit for Preventing Sexual Violence
Publisher(s):The Minnesota Center for Crime Victim Services and the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault, along with a workgroup of various MN sexual violence prevention organizations, agencies and individuals created this kit to support community sexual violence prevention efforts.
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- General Material
January 1999
Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide: Assessment of the likelihood of domestic violence
Publisher(s):This brochure describes the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide (SARA) and its ability to help determine the degree to which an individual poses a domestic violence threat to his/her partner, children, another family member, or another person involved.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
January 1999
The Austin Community Domestic Violence Project: A Blueprint for Raising Community Awareness and Promoting Local Action
Publisher(s):Describes a community organizing project that worked within an African American community to mobilize and train citizen leaders and business gatekeepers to safely and effectively intervene in domestic violence cases and raise neighborhood awareness.
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- General Material
October 1998
Overcoming Cultural Barriers in Working with Immigrant Battered Women
Publisher(s):This document suggests service providers to become familiar with the laws that affect immigrant women, to develop multi-lingual and multi-cultural staff and develop contacts with people from diverse cultures in their communities.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
August 1998
A Review of Standards for Batterer Intervention Programs
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This document reports on the current status of standards for batterer intervention programs in each U.S. state, describes the common elements of standards, and explores the positive and negative aspects of standards. It includes a state-by-state chart.
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- General Material
April 1998
Improving the Health Care Response to Domestic Violence: A Trainer's Manual for Health Care Providers
Publisher(s):This Trainer’s Manual encourages the integration of the sometimes separate fields of health, domestic violence, and culture in the development of health care policies, procedures, practice, and trainings for responding to domestic violence victims. The Trainer's Manual is a companion piece to "Improving the Health Care Responses to Domestic Violence: A Resource Manual for Health Care Providers."
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
February 1998
Abuse and Women with Disabilities
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This document highlights the prevalence of violence against women with disabilities, examines abuse interventions for women with disabilities, and offers a critique of studies on abuse and disability. Includes recommendations for research and practice.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
February 1998
Measuring the Extent of Woman Abuse in Intimate Heterosexual Relationships: A Critique of the Conflict Tactics Scales
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This document offers a critique of the Conflict Tactics Scale, a commonly-used measurement instrument designed to estimate the extent of violence against women, examining several limitations and describing the need for multiple measures of woman abuse.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
January 1998
Family Violence Protocol Development for TANF and Child Support Agencies
Publisher(s):This paper provides detailed guidance on developing family violence protocols within welfare settings. It is written to assist domestic violence advocates and state administrators implementing PRWORA