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Confidentiality and Information Sharing Issues for Domestic Violence Advocates Working with Child Protection and Juvenile Court System
Publisher(s):This paper presents information about three laws related to information sharing: confidentiality, privileged communications, and mandated reporting. It includes information on making decisions on how to handle and use information about child abuse.
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Relationship Quizzes
Publisher(s):This webpage has multiple interactive quizzes that teens can take to learn about their own relationships, a friend’s relationship, or to test their knowledge on dating violence. Click on the “Relationship Quizzes” tab to access them.
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Help Your Child
Publisher(s):Parents are in a critical position to help their children develop healthy relationships and to provide life saving support if their children are in an abusive relationship. This handout offers helpful tips about what parents need to know and how they can be of help.
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Bought and Sold: Helping Young People Escape From Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Publisher(s):Brochure explaining the impact of commercial sexual exploitation on young people. Outlined information includes: which youth are more at risk to be victimized, activities that be considered as or lead to commercial exploitation of youth, signs of sexual exploitation, the needs of victims of sexual exploitation, when and who to share information and resources for service providers and victims.
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Using Policies to Promote Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: An interview with Alisa Klein
In this podcast, the advocate consultant of the Applied Research Paper titled Using Policies to Promote Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: What is Working? shares her thoughts on the research, trends, and recommendations discussed in the document.
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Friendship
Publisher(s):This resource page explores friendship for young people, exploring the importance of being one’s own friend, what friendship means, skills for being a good friend, and what a healthy friendship looks like.
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Training Module: Health Care Practitioner Module and Resources
This resource includes an interactive, multimedia learning module and discussion guide introducing practitioners to the science of early childhood development, toxic stress, executive function, resilience, and mental health.
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Social Networking Safety
Publisher(s):This handout offers tips for staying safe on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, foursquare and others.
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Dating Abuse Statistics
Publisher(s): Dating abuse is a big problem, affecting youth in every community across the nation. This page from Love Is Respect outlines key statistics.
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Campaign for a Trauma-Informed Virginia
Publisher(s):The goal of the campaign is to influence state policymakers to adopt trauma-informed approaches by increasing investments in prevention of trauma and adopting trauma-informed and evidence-based practices across state agencies that impact children and families.
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Athlete Ally
Publisher(s):This resource uses public awareness campaigns and educational programming to foster inclusive sports communities.
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Supporting and Affirming LGBTQIA2S+ Youth and Young Adults: Tip Sheet
Publisher(s):This tip sheet was developed as a tool to support Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) programs, organizations, and their communities by outlining effective practices for supporting, affirming, and improving outcomes for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, intersex, asexual, and two spirit, as well as non-binary and gender expansive (LGBTQIA2S+) youth and young adults.