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Explores how welfare-to-work programs can help battered women, highlighting programs that provide specialized services to battered women. Also included is a list of Internet resources designed to increase understanding of this complex system.

This fact sheet provides information for caregivers on choosing trauma-informed care for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

This tool can be used by healthcare providers to screen patients who may be experiencing or have experienced trauma.

Available in eight languages, this brochure presents information on domestic violence, and on actions immigrant and refugee women survivors can take to protect themselves. The brochure also answers questions related to survivorsÍ immigration and public assistance eligibility

This position statement explains in detail this organization's position with regard to mainstreaming Deaf children in school settings.

This brief report on Strickland's study, the largest of its kind, surveyed 130 incarcerated females, 60 of which were sex offenders and 70 of which were nonsexual offenders - and examined factors such as childhood trauma, substance abuse, emotional neediness and personality disorders. While the majority of both groups reported being the victims of childhood maltreatment, the sex offenders were significantly more likely to experience pervasive, serious and more frequent emotional abuse, physical abuse and neglect.

NIWAP's Interactive Public Benefits Maps break down the types of public benefits available to immigrant survivors and immigrant children, based the victim’s or the child’s immigration status, the type of immigration case the victim may have filed, and the state in which the immigrant resides.

This report explores the sexual abuse to prison pipeline in which girls are arrested and incarcerated after they are sexually abused by mapping out key points in the pipeline.

This brief article describes what the term "invisible disability" means and why it is important to understand invisible disabilities.

Older adults can be harmed in many different ways by spouses, partners, adult children or other family members or others, including strangers. This page from the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life features resources for older adults experiencing abuse, as well as their loved ones.

Embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion as organizational values is a way to intentionally make space for positive outcomes to flourish, whether in the nonprofit capacity building or public policy spheres. This webpage from the National Council of Nonprofits explores why racial equity needs to be centered in all aspects of our work, and offers resources and tools for practice and discussion within nonprofit organizations.

This lesson addresses dating violence by using a series of videos (available on YouTube) as the basis for group discussion about different forms of abuse. It provides participants with strategies for safely ending a relationship and for seeking resources for themselves or friends.