Staff Development Content Topic Results

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.

Administrators will find these guidelines useful in developing policies concerning sexual issues within the preschool setting. The guidelines reflect a comprehensive approach to sexuality education and are organized into six key concepts: human development, relationships, personal skills, behaviors, health, and society/culture. Each key concept includes specific related topics and age-appropriate developmental messages.

Both survivors of abuse and the professionals they trust give voice in this book to their experiences with individuals, organizations, and systems that have been shaped and influenced in such a way that they frequently harm, rather than help, the individuals they serve. Readers will be moved by their accounts of what hurts, what helps, and what is needed from our service systems for healing and recovery.

This self-assessment checklist includes sections on physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, and professional self-care and balance.

This resource is a guide to running successful conflict resolution sessions. It offers teaching material, group and individual exercises, and handouts on the 12 skills of conflict resolution. Each chapter starts with clear guidelines for constructing training slots of different lengths. 

Over the past 3 decades the role of men in the anti-sexual violence movement has been a source of debate. This article shares experiences of one of the first men to be employed at rape crisis center and its effect on his worldview.

This wheel depicts how mental health providers can best respond to survivors of domestic violence by respecting their autonomy and confidentiality and promoting access to community services.

Hear Their Cries: Religious Responses to Child Abuse is an award-winning video on the role of clergy and lay leaders in ending child abuse is a critical resource. The study guide for the video helps facilitators lead conversations with religious congregations.

This brief factsheet describes common terms used within Deaf community, details shared values in contrast with mainstream U.S. hearing culture, and offers guidelines for communication.

This guide is part of a shared goal between NRCDV, state coalitions, and individual programs to find a better way to welcome women and other domestic violence victims -- many of whom had every aspect of life controlled by their partners -- into shelter where they could experience autonomy despite the constraints of a communal living environment. The concept and conflict of having rules in shelter has been repeatedly recycled and re-silenced throughout the movement to end violence against women.

This manual recognizes the impact of culture on patient-doctor communication, particularly when discussing domestic violence. The manual provides guidelines for health care providers to effectively screen culturally diverse patients for domestic violence.

In this paper, the author describes her experience in learning to become an advocate for Deaf survivors of domestic violence. She emphasizes the importance of both linguistic and cultural competency, and the necessity of key collaborations towards successful advocacy work.