10 Things You Can Do To Promote Teen Dating Abuse Awareness
This toolkit provides information on what youth can do to promote awareness of teen dating abuse in schools and communities.
A Development Approach to Working with Teen Victims
This issue brief discusses the need for service providers to understand adolescent development in order to effectively provide interventions for teen victims of abuse.
A Guide for Effective Issuance & Enforcement of Protection Orders
"This publication, also known as the Burgundy Book, was developed to give communities and professionals precise tools and strategies they can implement to broaden the effectiveness of protection orders, both from a practical standpoint and from a philosophical perspective. This guide is intended for advocates, civil attorneys, courts and judiciary, law enforcement and prosecutors."
A High-Tech Twist on Abuse: Technology, Intimate Partner Stalking, and Advocacy
This Violence Against Women Online Resources commissioned document summarizes the existing knowledge on the use of technology to stalk. The author uses both published literature and contributions provided by numerous survivors’ reports to provide current information on the variety of sophisticated tools that are being used to stalk current and former intimate partners. The article also provides specific strategies for advocates, including safety planning information, a resource list, and a handout for survivors.
A Victim-Centered Approach To Domestic Violence Against Native Women
"This resource guide was developed to provide a starting point for drafting or revising tribal laws on domestic violence. It is written with a philosophy that tribal laws should reflect tribal values."
Accountability and Connection with Abusive Men
"This document is an effort to remedy the excessive focus on mothers in cases involving domestic violence. It provides suggestions for connecting with and holding abusers accountable. It is a resource for child protection workers, supervisors, managers and others working with families involved in the child protection system."
Addressing Domestic Violence & Sexual Violence Against Asian & Pacific Islander Women: Strengthening Advocacy, Changing Communities
"This manual presents training curricula for a range of issues affecting Asian and Pacific Islander battered women, advocates, and communities."
Addressing Domestic Violence in Indian Country
This manual examines the reasons behind the presence of domestic and sexual violence in Native communities by looking at its historical origins and how to address it in the community.
Advocacy Beyond Leaving: Helping Battered Women in Contact With Current or Former Partners
"This Guide offers practical suggestions to assist advocates working day to day with victims. Using the familiar and concrete framework of woman-defined advocacy, the Guide explains advocates’ important role in safety planning when victims are in contact with current or former partners."
Advocacy Matters: Helping Mothers and Their Children Involved with the Child Protection System
"This manual is intended for advocates working with women involved with the child protection system. It'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." Related publications and resources are highlighted."
An Advocate's Guide to Full Faith and Credit
This guide was developed for advocates who assist victims of domestic violence with orders for protection. It provides a glossary of full faith and credit terminology, advocate tips, and information about enforcement of full faith and credit legislation.
Annual Report on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Domestic Violence in 2000 (PDF)
This report describes incidents of domestic violence in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community that were reported during the year 2000 to community-based anti-violence organizations in nine regions throughout the U.S.
Annual Report on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Domestic Violence in 1998
The purpose of this report is to investigate the following research questions and to summarize findings: 1) How prevalent is domestic violence among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people? 2) Do state statutes permit victims of same-sex domestic violence to obtain domestic violence protective orders? Footnotes are downloadable in Microsoft Word as well.
Anticipate: Identifying Victim Strengths and Planning for Safety Concerns - Participant Handouts (PDF)
This is the participant handout for the Anticipate: Identifying Victim Strengths and Planning for Safety Concerns training. This handout is intended to help participants enhance the skills needed to create a safety plan with older victims and adults with disabilities. Participants will also learn about other resources available from a variety of systems in their community. Likewise, participants will begin to identify service gaps. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to build or enhance working relationships with professionals from other disciplines in their community.
Anticipate: Identifying Victim Strengths and Planning for Safety Concerns - Power Point (PDF)
This is the power point presentation for the Anticipate: Identifying Victim Strengths and Planning for Safety Concerns training. This powerpoint is intended to help participants enhance the skills needed to create a safety plan with older victims and adults with disabilities. Participants will also learn about other resources available from a variety of systems in their community. Likewise, participants will begin to identify service gaps. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to build or enhance working relationships with professionals from other disciplines in their community.
Anticipate: Identifying Victim Strengths and Planning for Safety Concerns - Training Guide (PDF)
This training module was created by the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), a project of the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WCADV). The purpose of the training is to enhance the safety planning skills of professionals who work with older victims and/or people with disabilities.
Assessing Justice System Response To Violence Against Women
This is the second installment on this website from the STOP-TA Project's Promising Practices Initiative. The document contains profiles of 17 non-profit victim advocacy organizations around the nation. The profiles highlight innovative outreach and service delivery strategies that address the needs of victims of sexual assault, stalking and domestic violence.
Assisting Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence - Advocate's Guide (PDF)
"This guide for advocates and volunteers focuses on the needs of newly-arrived battered immigrant women whose immigration status is unsettled."
Assisting Survivors of Domestic Violence in Applying for Housing
This Manual was created for advocates and attorneys working with survivors of domestic violence who are applying for housing. Efforts to help survivors find housing are crucial, as housing instability is a major obstacle for survivors who are seeking to end abusive relationships or to avoid returning to their abusers. The Manual provides background information and sample documents that can be used to advocate on behalf of survivors who are seeking housing. The goal of this Manual is to make housing issues more accessible and easily understandable to advocates, regardless of their prior knowledge of housing law.
Assisting Survivors With Housing Issues (PDF)
This document provides information on issues relating to domestic violence and housing. These issues range from termination of a lease to transferring to another housing unit. Legal court cases are cited to provide information on victim's rights on this issue.
Assistive Technology (PDF)
This Tip Sheet on Assistive Technologywas developed to help agencies and communities respond effectively to the ways that technology impacts victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence and stalking. The document looks at how the technology works, how agencies and partnerships are using it, the benefits and risks, and things to consider when using Assistive Technology. Assistive Technology is an umbrella term that includes any device, equipment, product, or service that: increases, maintains, or improves access; decreases or removes systemic barriers; and supports accessibility, autonomy, and self‐determination for individuals with disabilities or who are Deaf.
Balancing Obligations: Serving Teen Victims and Mandated Reporting of Statutory Rape
This issue brief addresses the importance of preserving confidentiality while working with teen victims of abuse, at the same time fulfilling the service provider's legal duties.
Becoming an Expert Witness & Developing Your Curriculum Vita or Resume (PDF)
This guide provides domestic violence advocates tips on how prepare to become an expert witness in trials and hearings.
Before You Start (PDF (color))
As a part of the toolkit, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse”, this document is a checklist for service providers reaching out to faith-based organizations regarding elder abuse.
Beyond Observation: Considerations for Advancing Domestic Violence Practice in Supervised Visitation
"This paper presents considerations for expanded practice in the Supervised Visitation Grant Program and describes interventions that go beyond observation in the supervised visitation setting."
Bookmark (PDF)
As a part of the toolkit, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse”, this bookmark contains information about elder abuse, information to get immediate help, and information to get further information about elder abuse.
Breaking the Silence: A Training Manual for Activists, Advocates and Latina Organizers (PDF)
"This training manual provides basic information about immigrant rights, how the system that protect domestic violence survivors works, and how to overcome the barriers that block immigrant survivors of domestic violence from accessing the available protections from abuse."
Bridging Domestic Violence Intervention and Community Policing: Partnership and Problem-Solving Tools (PDF)
This document presents ideas, concepts, and strategies to encourage community-based domestic violence advocates and their law enforcement allies to consider new approaches to partnership and problem-solving.
Brochure, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse” (PDF (color))
As a part of the toolkit, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse”, this brochure addresses the following questions: What is elder abuse? Who are the abusers? What are possible “red flags” to look for? I’m part of a faith community. How can I help?. It also provides information on hotlines and referrals.
Building Bridges Between Domestic Violence Organizations and Child Protective Services
This paper provides both background information and a framework for collaboration with child protection agencies that will support the work of domestic violence advocates as they try to improve safety for women and their children.
Building the Rythm of Change: Developing Leadership and Improving Services within the Battered Rural Immigrant Women's Community
"This manual provides suggestions and guidance on how to organize a similar project aimed at improving services and eliminating barriers to safety for battered immigrant women by empowering the women."
Campus Dating Violence Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides information about dating violence on college campuses.
Child Support Protocol: A Guide for Integrated Domestic Violence Courts
A best practices guide for legal professionals who oversee integrated domestic violence court cases involving child custody issues.
Civil Protection Orders: A Guide for Improving Practice (CPO Guide)
NCJFCJ's Family Violence Department, in partnership with OVW, developed Civil Protection Orders: A Guide for Improving Practice (CPO Guide) as a tool designed to support the work of professional dedicated to enhancing the effectiveness of the civil protection order process. It provides guidance for advocates, attorneys, judges, law enforcement personnel, and prosecutors to help ensure that protection orders are effectively issued, served, and enforced across the country.
Cloud Computing
This Tip Sheet on Cloud Computing was developed to help agencies and communities respond effectively to the ways that technology impacts victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence and stalking. The document looks at how the cloud computing works, how agencies and partnerships are using it, benefits and risks, and things to consider when using Cloud Computing.
Collaborating to Help Trafficking Survivors: Emerging Issues and Practice Pointers
This manual is for those committed to assisting trafficking survivors, especially sexual assault and domestic violence advocates and their allies in the criminal and legal systems who have basic knowledge of the trafficking assistance process.
Community Policing to Prevent Violence Against Women
This document is a training manual provided by PERF to advocates, police, social service providers, and other violence-against-women professionals. It is a resource guide for community-policing approaches to reducing and preventing violence-against-women.
Computers and Networks (PDF)
This Tip Sheet on Computers and Networks was developed to help agencies and communities respond effectively to the ways that technology impacts victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence and stalking. The document looks at how the technology works, how agencies and partnerships are using it, benefits and risks, and things to consider when using Computers and Networks.
Confidentiality and Information Sharing Issues for Domestic Violence Advocates Working with Child Protection and Juvenile Court Systems
"This paper explains basic advocacy practice and legal concepts related to information sharing and provides a framework for making decisions about how to handle and use information when working with women involved in the child protection or juvenile court systems."
Conozca sus derechos: Acoso sexual y vivienda
¿Ha sufrido manoseo no deseado, avances sexuales no deseados, bromas, comentarios o gestos sexuales en la vivienda de alquiler? Las leyes de vivienda justa pueden ayudarlo.
Conozca sus derechos: Violencia doméstica y vivienda asistida
¿Es víctima de violencia doméstica, violencia en el noviazgo o acecho? ¿Vive en una vivienda pública, en una vivienda del Artículo 8 o en una vivienda de apoyo para ancianos o discapacitados? Una ley llamada VAWA (siglas en inglés), la Ley sobre la Violencia contra las Mujeres, puede ayudarla.
Conversations with Mothers of Color Who Have Experienced Domestic Violence Regarding Working with Men to End Domestic Violence
This document explores the attitudes and perceptions of women of color survivors with children. The overarching objective was to hear what women had to say about efforts to engage men and fathers of color as allies in stopping intimate partner violence and restoring health in partnership and parenting. The research was undertaken by the Family Violence Prevention Fund as part of the development of our national violence prevention campaign.
Creating Solutions - Creating Change: The Impact of Violence in the Lives of Working Women (PDF)
This publication is a corporate handbook designed by NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund to help employers effectively address the issue of violence against women with creative and inexpensive solutions. This guide explains key pertinent legal issues and suggests ways employers can develop strategies for dealing with violence-related issues.
Criminal Prosecution of Battered Native Women for Failure to Protect
This document provides an overview of the criminal prosecution of battered native women for failure to protect and the impact of laws and policies.
Culture Handbook
"This handbook is designed to be used by advocates and professionals who work with those who are victims of domestic and sexual violence. It provides some basic information on how to understand culture and begin the process of challenging oneself to become more aware of the ways in which culture impacts our work and the lives of those who are victims."
Databases (PDF)
This Tip Sheet on Databases and Specialized System Databases was developed to help agencies and communities respond effectively to the ways that technology impacts victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence and stalking. The document looks at how the technology works, how agencies and partnerships are using it, benefits and risks, and things to consider when using Databases.
Developing Services for Older Abused Women: A Guide for Domestic Abuse Programs
This packet provides information on developing services for older abused women in an existing domestic abuse program.
DNA Evidence: Enhancing Law Enforcement’s Impact From Crime Scene to Courtroom and Beyond (PDF)
"This report attempts to capture the issues and concerns identified and the recommendations related to crime victims, DNA evidence, and the criminal justice system that emerged from the sharing of so many varied perspectives."
Does My Client Need An I-192? U Visas and Inadmissibility Issues - Power Point (PDF)
This power point is intended to help advocates and attorneys know when their client needs the I-192, how to prepare the package on U visa cases and potential challenges and how to address them.
Domestic Violence Against Asian & Pacific Islander Women (PDF)
This is a training curriculum on domestic violence against Asian & Pacific Islander women.
Domestic Violence and the Fair Housing Act: A Toolkit for Grantees (PDF)
The National Housing Law Project has created the attached advocate toolkit outlining how the Fair Housing Act can help survivors of domestic violence obtain and maintain housing. The toolkit is designed to provide advocates with an overview of the FHA and strategies that advocates have used to bring fair housing claims on behalf of survivors of domestic violence.
Domestic Violence Civil Protection Orders (CPOs) By State (PDF)
A chart that lists domestic violence civil protection orders (CPOs) by state.
Domestic Violence Court Monitoring: Innovative Programs (PDF)
The purpose of this manual is to give statewide domestic violence coalitions and other groups interested in developing court monitoring programs information about how different communities across the United States have developed innovative court monitoring programs. This manual presents some of the most successful domestic violence and sexual assault court monitoring programs in the United States. Each of the ten programs described has attempted to improve the justice system’s response to victims of violence and their children through court monitoring. The programs and practices described in this manual are the result of many people working in courts and communities, urban and rural, throughout the country. Some programs have developed over many years; others have been in existence for only a few years. All of these programs are exceptional in some way.
Domestic Violence Court Monitoring: Readings & Materials (PDF)
Before beginning a court monitoring project, it is important to understand the purpose for conducting a court monitoring project and how the data gathered can be used to enhance policy and practice in these difficult cases. Enclosed are materials that will provide you with a basic overview of court monitoring and help you determine whether a court monitoring project is a tool that can be used within your state as part of a coordinated community response to end violence against women and children. The information provided offers readers an insight into court monitoring generally, outlines the work of the Nevada Statewide Court Monitoring Project specifically, and highlights sample training materials that can be provided to court monitors as you develop your project.
Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault & Stalking Prevention and Intervention in Rural Native American Communities: Training, Research and Education Programs
A comprehensive training manual for rural Native American communities addressing domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking through training, research and educational programming. Note: This document provides a general overview. When developing a plan for your community, look to your own tribal codes and state and federal laws concerning confidentiality and explore methods which can be used in the civil or criminal justice arenas which would enhance victim safety.
Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence & Child Maltreatment Cases (Executive Summary)
This is an executive summary of the document "Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence & Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policies and Practice." The aim of this document is to offer a more comprehensive set of responses to eliminate or decrease the enormous risks that individual battered mothers, caseworkers, and judges must take on behalf of children.
Effects of Sexual Assault (PDF)
This document can be used by rape crisis centers or other sexual assault agencies to provide information on the effects of sexual assault and to explain some of the more common effects that sexual assault victims may experience. Agencies can add their own logo and contact information to the document.
El Crimen de la Trata Humana (PDF)
"This guidebook, translated into Spanish, is intended to offer knowledge and tools to investigate human trafficking safely and effectively."
El Paso County, Colorado Institutional Safety and Accountability Audit Report: A Project of the El Paso County Greenbook Project (PDF)
This report explores adult/child victim safety and offender accountability efforts in the criminal justice response. The goal of this audit was to strategize ways to improve the safety and well being of adult/child victims, enhance offender accountability, and create a system of accountability for the agencies that respond to domestic violence.
Elder Abuse and Faith: A Guide for Service Providers on Reaching Out to Faith-Based Organizations Regarding Elder Abuse
As a part of the toolkit, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse”, this document lists some of the outreach challenges that service providers may encounter, and some possible strategies for overcoming these challenges. The toolkit contains resources that will help service providers reach out to and collaborate with local faith communities.
Elder Abuse in Tribal Communities
This document provides an overview and resources on elder abuse in tribal communities.
Employment Rights for Victims of Domestic Violence
Legal Momentum uses targeted litigation, legislative advocacy, and training to protect victims from employment discrimination and to help employers and unions understand how they can assist victims keep their jobs and stay safe. This website provides survivors, attorneys or advocates, and employers with information on the employment rights of victims of domestic violence.
Ensuring Forensic Medical Exams for All Sexual Assault Victims: A Toolkit for States and Territories
This "toolkit is designed to help states and territories address compliance with federal statute to ensure that victims of sexual assault can get a forensic medical exam free of charge or with full reimbursement regardless of whether they report the crime to police or otherwise cooperate with the criminal justice system."
Facts & Stats: Domestic Violence in Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Homes (PDF)
This document "raises awareness about the experiences of Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander battered women; counters denial about the problem; emphasizes the need for socio-culturally effective prevention and intervention; and serves to guide future research and inform public policy."
Family Team Conferences in Domestic Violence Cases: Guidelines for Practice (PDF)
"These revised guidelines further describe the thoughtful and safe use of Family Team Conferences (FTCs) for families affected by domestic violence. The guidelines are designed to provide useful information for trained FTC facilitators and FTC participants, including domestic violence advocates, batterer intervention staff, other community based service providers, and extended family members."
FAQ's on Survivor Confidentiality Releases (PDF)
This document addresses common questions regarding confidentiality and releases of information. It takes into account the confidentiality and privacy provisions in the U.S. federal Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (VAWA 2005). In analyzing the meaning and application of the confidentiality and privacy provisions of VAWA 2005, the purpose of the statute (to protect adult, youth, and child victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking and their families) must be kept at the forefront.
Fathering After Violence: Working with Abusive Fathers in Supervised Visitation (PDF)
"This guide is intended to assist Supervised Visitation Program or SVP that want to enhance the safety and well-being of women and children by working more deliberately with abusive fathers who use the centers to visit their children."
Federal Interstate Stalking Law
Provides definitions and interpretations of the Federal Interstate Stalking Law.
Female Officers as Victims of Police-Perpetrated Domestic Violence (PDF)
"The purpose of this article is to increase advocates' knowledge of how the expectations and values of the female officer's profession and workplace culture influence her behavior and decisions regarding her abusive relationship. The article discusses some of the ways police culture can contribute to the isolation of its female members and condition them to tolerate and even accept men's disrespect, negative attitudes, and potentially, domestic abuse."
Final Report: Focus Group on Public Law 280 and the Sexual Assault of Native Women (PDF)
This is the final report from the "focus group on the Oneida Indian Reservation in Green Bay, Wisconsin that discussed challenges to, and opportunities for, collaboration between states and tribes in Public Law 280 jurisdictions to address sexual assault in Indian country."
Forging New Collaborations: A Guide for Rape Crisis, Domestic Violence, and Disability Organizations
Through its Accessing Safety Initiative, Vera’s Center on Victimization and Safety provides training and consultation on collaboration and capacity-building at the intersection of violence and disability. By the end of 2010, OVW’s Disability Grant Program had fostered more than 40 such collaborations. This report is based upon Vera’s work with and observations of those collaborations from 2006 through 2010, as well as in-depth interviews with representatives from 10 of the groups and an extensive literature review on effective collaboration. It is designed for policy makers, practitioners, and first-responders interested in using collaboration to address violence against people with disabilities. It offers concrete recommendations for how to build effective collaboration between victim services and disability organizations, practical strat¬egies for overcoming common obstacles, and steps to begin the collaboration process.
Frequently Asked Questions about U.S. Federal Laws & Confidentiality for Survivors (PDF)
This piece addresses common confidentiality questions about several U.S. federal laws that may impact victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. It highlights key confidentiality and privacy provisions in 2005 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act (VAWA) and the 2010 reauthorization of the Family Violence Prevention Services Act (FVPSA). With VAWA confidentiality provisions in mind, it also answers questions regarding the following U.S. federal laws: The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics (Clery), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), and, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
Full Faith and Credit Enabling Legislation and Registry Information
The following document provides information about individual states' laws and policies regarding restraining orders, the registration thereof and reciprocity between states. Registry information is also provided for the District of Columbia.
Full Faith and Credit for Protection Orders: Assisting Survivors with Enforcement Across Jurisdictional Lines (PDF)
Full faith and credit may be a passport to safety for many survivors, so advocates must understand how it works and be familiar with state, tribal, territorial, and federal law. As part of all risk assessment and safety planning, advocates must share information about protection order enforcement with survivors and advise them of potential elevated risks when abusers follow or stalk them across jurisdictional lines. Abusers who are determined and willing to cross state, tribal, or territorial lines in pursuit of survivors may be among the most dangerous offenders. With information about full faith and credit, survivors can make more informed decisions about their safety strategies.
Full Faith and Credit Implementation: Challenges and Solutions
This chapter identifies some of the stumbling blocks to implementation of full faith and credit, including xenophobia, reluctance to change, and procedure-driven traditions of law enforcement. It offers an outline for a problem-solving approach.
Golden Voices: Support Groups for Older Abused Women
"The purpose of this manual is to help professionals create or enhance a support group for older abused women."
GPS Monitoring of Offenders (PDF)
This Tip Sheet on GPS Monitoring of Offenders was developed to help agencies and communities respond effectively to the ways that technology impacts victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence and stalking. The document looks at how the technology works, how agencies and partnerships are using it, benefits and risks, and things to consider when contemplating GPS Monitoring of Offenders.
Guiding Principles for Safe Havens: Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Grant Program
"This document was designed to guide the development and administration of Supervised Visitation Program centers with an eye toward addressing the needs of child(ren) and adult victims of domestic violence in visitation and exchange settings. The Guiding Principles look beyond the visitation setting to address how communities funded under the Supervised Visitation Program should address domestic violence in the larger community."
Having A Problem With An Account?
Technology helps victims flee violent batterers or stalkers, but various technologies in the hands of abusers and perpetrators can be dangerous and violate privacy. This document provides the contact information for customer support for many common internet and mobile phone accounts.
High-Tech Stalking (PDF)
This Tip Sheet on High-Tech Stalking was developed to help agencies and communities respond effectively to the ways that technology impacts victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence and stalking. Stalkers are increasingly misusing a variety of telephone, surveillance, and computer technologies to harass, terrify, intimidate, coerce, and monitor former and current intimate partners. Perpetrators are also misusing technology to stalk before, during, and after perpetrating sexual violence. This document looks at how the technology works, how agencies and partnerships are using it, benefits and risks, and things to consider regarding High-Tech Stalking.
Housing Rights of Domestic Violence Survivors: A State and Local Law Compendium
The following is a compendium of state and local laws that affect domestic violence survivors’ housing rights. This compendium is designed to serve as a starting point for advocates seeking to conduct research on the housing protections that their state laws offer for domestic violence survivors. Advocates should review provisions affecting domestic violence survivors’ housing rights on a case-by-case basis to ensure their validity and enforceability in each state. For purposes of brevity, in some instances statutes are excerpted to include only the information that is relevant to domestic violence and housing.
Housing Rights of Survivors with Disabilities (PDF)
"Common housing issues that survivors with disabilities face; housing rights and protections available for survivors with disabilities; and using reasonable accommodation laws to advocate for survivors’ housing needs."
How to Start and Facilitate a Support Group for Victims of Stalking
The purpose of How to Start and Facilitate a Support Group for Victims of Stalking is to guide victim service providers, volunteers, and other concerned community members on how to initiate and implement a stalking support group. This handbook provides recommendations on how to locate partners and community support, identify resources, and engage victims who would like to participate in a stalking support group. It offers guidance on how to choose a leader or facilitator, how to prepare the leader, and how to run support group sessions that help members cope with the impact of stalking.
Human Trafficking and the T-visa (PDF)
This document provides an overview of human trafficking and the T-visa.
Impact of the Law on Service to Teens
This issue brief discusses the challenges that laws at the state and federal level pose, how they can impact the way service providers serve teens and how teens respond to adult interventions. Suggested strategies are given for programs and agencies working to serve teen victims of abuse.
In the Best Interest of Women and Children: A Call for Collaboration Between Child Welfare and Domestic Violence Constituencies
This is a briefing paper prepared for a Wingspread Conference of a similar title. It discusses family violence, specifically against women and children, barriers to helping the victims, and the importance of collaboration to effect change.
Increasing Your Safety: Full Faith and Credit for Protection Orders
This guide is for you, or someone you know who has, or plans to seek, a protection order and may travel across county, state, territorial, tribal, or international lines, on to military installations, or within U.S. maritime jurisdictions. This information is intended to help you understand the full faith and credit provision of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), 18 U.S.C. § 2265 (2006), by explaining the federal law and offering ideas about how to get help if you have problems with the enforcement of your protection order.
Innovative Strategies to Address Domestic Violence in Asian and Pacific Islander Communities: Examining Models, Themes and Interventions (PDF)
This report addresses API domestic violence intervention strategies within the U.S. as both accommodations and alternatives to mainstream domestic violence programs. They have adopted mainstream assumptions and approaches. And, they have crafted innovations based upon necessity and, in some cases, vision and intentionality. Emerging themes as discussed by the API women interviewed in this report highlight a number of areas which capture our attention for further exploration. While the findings of this report bring up broad, diverse and, at times, contradictory policies and practices among API programs, existing models, themes and interventions for the future programs are examined.
Interactive Training Exercises on Abuse in Later Life (PDF)
Skilled trainers need a variety of tools to impart information. To that end, WCADV has developed a curriculum development process to create interactive exercises on a variety of topics. This manual will provide directions for 16 exercises focusing on several key training points for multiple target audiences such as professionals from domestic violence/sexual assault, elder abuse/adult protective services, aging, health care, justice and others and give ideas of exercises that trainers can adapt to meet the needs of many audiences.
Intersection of Domestic Violence and Child Victimization in Indian Country (PDF)
This document provides an overview of the "destructive effects of domestic violence on children, families, and communities which are magnified by the intergenerational trauma that Native American families and communities have experienced since colonization began."
Interstate Child Custody: A Practitioner's Guide to the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA) (PDF)
An information sheet on the the Uniform Child Custy Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA) and how it relates to cases of domestic violence.
Introducing Expert Testimony to Explain Victim Behavior in Sexual and Domestic Violence Prosecutions (PDF)
"This monograph sets forth recommended practices for addressing victims behavior in a sexual or domestic violence prosecution, and providing an accurate context in which a jury can evaluate a victim's behavior."
Introductory Letter to Service Providers and Advocates (PDF (color))
This letter provides service providers and advocates with an overview of the toolkit, "Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse”.
Know Your Rights: Domestic Violence and Assisted Housing
Are you a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking? Do you live in public housing, Section 8 housing, or supportive housing for the elderly or disabled? A law called VAWA, the Violence Against Women Act, may help you.
Know Your Rights: Sexual Harassment and Housing
Have you experienced unwanted touching, unwanted sexual advances, sexual jokes, comments, or gestures in your rental housing? Fair housing laws may help you.
Leadership + Systems Change = Sustainability (PDF)
"The purpose of this report is to provide a summary of the Leadership + Systems Change = Sustainability pilot program, including initial outcomes. It draws extensively upon the stories and experiences of the advocates and faith leaders who worked in partnership with TC-TAT as well as from evaluations throughout the pilot program."
List of Extreme Hardship Factors for U Visa Cases (PDF)
This is a comparative list of possible factors that will be considered in making the extreme hardship determination for the U Visa.
Mandatory Reporting of Elder Abuse: Implications for Domestic Violence Advocates
This issue paper is designed to assist domestic violence advocates in finding the necessary information to engage in critical analysis of how to provide safety and women- defined or victim centered advocacy in an environment of mandatory reporting of elder abuse.
Mental Health Services for Rape Survivors: Current Issues in Therapeutic Practice
This Violence Against Women Online Resources commissioned document reviews three critical issues for mental health practitioners working with rape survivors. First, current research suggests that victims experience a variety of negative mental health effects from sexual assault, including, but not limited to, post-traumatic stress symptoms. Second, empirical evaluations of therapeutic techniques suggest that cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT) can be effective in reducing short-term post-rape fear and anxiety symptoms. Finally, it is not uncommon that mental health practitioners who work with rape survivors experience distressing emotions similar to those of the survivors. Self care strategies are particularly important for therapists engaged in this kind of work.
Model Campus Stalking Policy (PDF)
The Stalking Resource Center, a program of the National Center for Victims of Crime, partnered with the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA) to publish this model campus policy on stalking. Numerous colleges and universities across the country contact the Stalking Resource Center each year, requesting assistance on how to address stalking on campuses. Along with requests for technical assistance, schools have asked for examples of stalking policies they could adapt and implement on their campuses. This document is a direct response to those inquiries.
Monitoring Protection Order Hearings: An Annotated Bibliography (PDF)
This annotated bibliography was developed for court monitoring projects focusing on the issuance and enforcement of protection orders as their topic area. Resources in this bibliography can be used to help you design your court monitoring project, provide information to members of your advisory team, or develop findings and recommendations for your final report.
Myths & Realities of Identity Change
This document explains the myths and realities of changing a person's identity.
National Domestic Abuse in Later Life Resource Directory (PDF)
This is a state based directory of resources that are focused on abuse in later life.
NHLP Housing Rights of Domestic Violence Survivors - Power Point (PDF)
"Common housing issues survivors face; overview of federally assisted housing programs; VAWA’s housing provisions; fair housing protections for survivors; state law protections; and advocacy strategies."
Online Privacy & Safety Tips (PDF)
Browsing the web safely and privately is concern for many people. A good general rule is that nothing online is private. Another general rule is that you can’t be completely anonymous online. However, you can take steps to prevent sensitive and personal information from making its rounds on the Web..This Tip Sheet on Online Privacy & Safety Tips was developed to help agencies and communities respond effectively to the ways that technology impacts victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence and stalking.
Outreach and Training for Local Faith-Based Organizations in Your PFJCI Community (PDF)
As a President’s Family Justice Center Initiative (PFJCI) Chaplaincy leader, you want to make your Chaplaincy Services successful by helping as many victims and survivors as possible. At Safe Havens, we believe that the support of the faith-based leaders in your community is one critical key to your success. By referring clients to the PFJCI, faith-based leaders can increase access to PFJCI services. By responding to your referrals, faith-based leaders can expand your capacity to meet the needs of your clients. In addition, faith-based organizations can strengthen community support for the PFJCI, provide a source of PFJCI volunteers and community connections, and help to bring about long-term change by encouraging healthy relationships and strong families. This document is a tool that can help you develop outreach and training for the faith-based organizations in your PFJCI community.
Overview: Name Change Laws (PDF)
This an overview of name change laws.
PFJCI Webinar (PDF)
"This webinar was presented in December 2008 by Rev. Dr. Anne Marie Hunter, Director of Safe Havens. The purpose of the webinar is to explain the history behind Safe Havens involvement with the President’s Family Justice Center Initiative and the technical assistance that Safe Havens provided to the 15 Family Justice Centers across the United States."
Privacy & Safety Planning With Survivors (PDF)
This document offers tip on privacy and safety planning with survivors when relocating.
Privacy Considerations When Posting Content Online (PDF)
This Tip Sheet on Privacy Considerations When Posting Content Online was developed to help agencies and communities respond effectively to the ways that technology impacts victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence and stalking. For those who want to be more protective of their online information, here are some questions to consider when posting content online.
Progress Report on Full Faith and Credit Enabling Legislation: 2000
Although the full faith and credit provision of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) explicitly directs states, union territories, and Indian tribes to enforce protection orders issued by sister states, territories, and tribes, it does not prescribe any specific enforcement procedures but instructs them to establish their own. This chapter provides a comprehensive view of the impact of the provision upon various jurisdictions.
Project Leadership in Multi-System Change Efforts to Address the Co-Occurrence of Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment (PDF)
"This document shares many of the leadership lessons from the perspective of the Greenbook project directors and is one of several publications that document the Greenbook sites’ experience."
Protection Order Registries and Databases (PDF)
This Tip Sheet on Protection Order Registries and Databases was developed to help agencies and communities respond effectively to the ways that technology impacts victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence and stalking. The document looks at how the technology works, how agencies and partnerships are using it, benefits and risks, and things to consider when using Protection Order Registries and Databases.
Raising Our Voices: Queer Asian Women's Response to Relationship Violence (PDF)
This report is based on information derived from both the local and national groups. The goal of this report is to encourage all domestic violence programs to provide services to not only the queer Asian women's community, but to all under-served communities.
Re-Examining ‘Battering’: Are All Acts of Violence Against Intimate Partners the Same? (PDF)
"This article differentiates among five categories of domestic violence by analyzing the dynamics, nuance and components of intimate partner violence, with the idea that this critical comprehension is vital in creating intervention and prevention models that befit the behavior. Grasping important differences in partner violence is crucial for researchers, practitioners and advocates for developing effective interventions for victims and perpetrators."
Reduce Your Risk (PDF)
This document can be used by rape crisis centers or other sexual assault agencies to provide information on steps that can be taken to reduce the risk of being assaulted. Agencies can add their own logo and contact information to the document.
Reflections from the Field: Considerations for Domestic Violence Specialists
In 2006, specialists, advocates, CPS, and domestic violence program administrators, and representatives from national organizations convened for Exploring the Role of Specialized Positions in Child Welfare and Domestic Violence Collaborations (Specialized Positions Meeting). At the Specialized Positions Meeting, participants shared their stories, reflected on lessons learned, and strategized about future directions for specialist positions addressing the overlap of domestic violence and child abuse and neglect. This document is a reflection of the discussions that occurred at that meeting and literature reviews that support those discussions.
Relationship Violence in Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer (LGBTQ) Communities: Moving Beyond a Gender-Based Framework
This Violence Against Women Online Resources commissioned document provides a critical overview of the current research on the contexts, dynamics, and impact of relationship violence within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq) communities. This document also identifies several barriers that still exist within support services when responding to this form of violence. The paper concludes by offering recommendations and considerations for the criminal justice and social service community and provides examples of innovative responses and programs that have been developed within lgbtq communities.
Resource Center
This resource center from the Teen Dating Abuse Helpline website offers a wide variety of resources for people in abusive relationships, their friends, families, and loved ones.
Resource Guide for Advocates & Attorneys on Interpretation Services for Domestic Violence Victims (PDF)
"These guidelines from the Interpretation Technical Assistance and Resource Center focus on court interpretation for domestic and sexual violence victims with limited English proficiency. This national project is an opportunity to build effective systems through collaboration and political will, identify and address problems early on, and be guided by clear strategies. Resource Guide for Advocates & Attorneys on Interpretation Services for Domestic Violence Victims informs how advocacy, interpretation, and language access can be integrated."
Responding to the Co-occurrence of Child Maltreatment and Adult Domestic Violence in Hennepin County
In this report, Drs. Edleson and Beeman and their research assistants detail information collected from a variety of sources during the first half of 1999. Information collection included detailed reporting by child protection screeners and investigators in the Hennepin County Department of Children and Family Services (HCDCFS), consulting with national experts in this area, reviewing published materials on prominent demonstration projects from around the United States and Canada, and holding a series of stakeholder meetings throughout Hennepin County.
Reviewing Domestic Violence Fatalities: Summarizing National Developments
This document brings together information on domestic violence fatality reviews from across the country. It defines domestic violence, provides a state-by-state matrix of domestic violence death review initiatives, introduces teams' philosophies and the purposes and goals of teams, addresses team membership, explores death review team protocols, confronts concerns regarding confidentiality, liability, and immunity, offers a selection of investigative methods already used by teams as they conduct death reviews, and talks about the issue of effecting change through the process of reviewing domestic fatalities.
Rompiendo el Silencio: Manual de Entrenamiento Para Activistas, Consejeras y Organizadoras Latinas (PDF)
"This training manual, translated into Spanish, provides basic information about immigrant rights, how the system that protect domestic violence survivors works, and how to overcome the barriers that block immigrant survivors of domestic violence from accessing the available protections from abuse."
Safety and Services: Women of color speak about their communities (PDF)
Safety and Services is based on a series of listening sessions with women who shared their experiences and knowledge of domestic violence, economic support services, and community. The paper explores cultural differences, community influences, a role for churches, and the value of a broad range of economic and social support services for increasing the safety and well-being of low-income women of color.
Safety Planning With Teens
An issue brief created by Break the Cycle for those working with teens on safety planning issues.
Safety Planning: A Guide for Individuals with Physical Disabilities (PDF)
"This safety plan is designed to help adults with physical disabilities who have been or may be abused by an intimate partner, spouse, adult child, other family member, personal assistant, or caregiver and can also be useful for people with mental, cognitive, developmental disabilities, and those who have hidden disabilities."
Safety Planning: How You Can Help (PDF)
"This booklet describes things to consider when creating a safety plan with a person with cognitive disabilities."
Sample Final Protection Order
This sample order, which is based on Pennsylvania law, is a guide to assist in the drafting of Final Protection Orders in different jurisdictions. The relief available will depend on the laws of each particular state or jurisdiction.
Sample letter from Service Providers and Advocates to Faith Communities (PDF)
As a part of the toolkit, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse,” this is a sample letter that can be used by Service Providers and Advocates to Faith Communities.
Sample Notice to Defendant Filing of Protective Order
A sample notice to a defendant filing a protective order.
Sample Universal Certification Form for Restraining Orders
A universally recognized and utilized certification form for civil protection/restraining orders will both normalize and expedite full faith and credit of these orders in non-issuing states, pursuant to the provisions of the VAWA. This is a sample order with attached rationale for the benefits of a universally recognized form.
Selecting a Database (PDF)
This chart provides agencies with an easy way to answer key questions to consider when selecting a database. The chart has sections that list questions for agencies to answer regarding: (1) general technical information, (2) data entry, (3) modifying fields and screens, (4) permissions and access, (5) reports, (6) data storage, (7) confidentiality and data ownership, and (8) breeches, liability and notice.
Sexual Assault Civil Protection Orders by State (PDF)
A chart that lists sexual assault civil protection orders (CPOs) by state.
Sexual Assault in Indian Country: Confronting Sexual Violence (PDF)
This document highlights certain types of sexual assault evidence and presents it within the historical treatment of native populations, jurisdictional problems and prevalence of violence.
Sexual Violence Against Farmworkers: A Guidebook for Social Service Providers (PDF)
The goal of this guidebook is to increase the knowledge and skills of social service providers so that you can better serve farmworkers who have experienced sexual violence. It provides helpful explanations about the life and work of farmworkers as well as unique issues that may impact the services you provide. Each section presents a distinct topic, concluding with questions designed to engage you in better assisting farmworker victims of sexual violence in your community.
Six Crucial Issues in Supervised Visitation
This article describes six crucial issues that may decide how victims, their children, and their communities experience supervised visitation. These issues, based upon research and experience from supervised visitation providers nationally, are: how staff and volunteer training can enhance victim safety; how risk assessment tools can help staff identify dangers; how stalking can be reduced at supervised visitation programs; how liability issues can be addressed at programs; how court orders can increase protection for victims and children; and how staff can avoid unintended outcomes in program record keeping.
Social Networking & Privacy Tips for Domestic & Sexual Violence Programs (PDF)
Domestic violence and sexual assault programs are increasingly using social networks, such as Facebook, MySpace or Bebo. There are many benefits to joining a social network: networking with peers, reaching out to potential funders and allies, and raising awareness. However, there are legitimate concerns about safety risks and confidentiality. This Tip Sheet on Social Networking & Privacy Tips for Domestic & Sexual Violence Programs was developed to help agencies respond effectively to the ways that social networking impacts victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence and stalking.
Statistics (PDF)
This document can be used by rape crisis centers or other sexual assault agencies to provide information on statistics on sexual assaults, including statistics on who the victims are, the effects of rape, the occurrence of sexual assaults, reporting to the police, and the offenders . Agencies can add their own logo and contact information to the document.
Suggestions for Starting or Refocusing a Women of Color Caucus
The Women of Color Leadership project created suggestions for Women of Color who are considering or have decided to start a Women of Color Caucus. Caucuses have long been recognized as an effective mechanism for people who share a common identity, experience or commitment to an issue to network and build support.
Summary of U.S. State Laws Related to Advocate Confidentiality (PDF)
This chart provides a summary of U.S. state laws related to advocate confidentiality. The chart includes the following sections (1) state, (2) summary, (3) privilege, and, (4) definitions.
Supervised Visitation Programs: Information for Mothers Who Have Experienced Abuse
"This guide was created for mothers who have experienced abuse and whose children are involved in supervised visitation programs. The guide provides information about how the programs work and how mothers can prepare themselves and their children for the experience."
Survivor Confidentiality and Privacy: Releases and Waivers At‐A‐Glance (PDF)
This Tip Sheet on Survivor Confidentiality and Privacy: Releases and Waivers At‐A‐Glance was developed to help agencies and communities respond effectively to the ways that technology impacts victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence and stalking. This document provides information on the fundamentals, innovative partnerships, federal & state laws, who can authorize a release, and best practices.
Sustainability 101 Fostering Collaboration Between SANE Program Coordinators and Medical Directors (PDF)
In addition to collaboration between Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs), community partners and other agencies, this document talks about the importance of collaboration between SANEs and physician colleagues to assist with the credibility and sustainability of a SANE Program.
Technology and Teen Dating Violence
This issue brief explains the ways technology can be used as tools of abuse. It offers tips to providers working on safety planning with teens experiencing abuse.
Technology Safety Quick Tips (PDF)
This Tip Sheet on Technology Safety Quick Tips was developed to help agencies and communities respond effectively to the ways that technology impacts victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence and stalking. This document describes different devices, risks to consider when choosing a device, and safety strategies that can be utilized for each device.
Teen Dating Abuse: The Basics
This toolkit provides statistics and information about teen dating abuse.
Teen Tools: Help for Teenage Victims of Crime
This is a resource sheet for teenage victims of crime.
Testifying About Lethality Risk Factors
This document provides information about "lethality risk factors, which are helpful in assessing the batterer’s potential to kill or cause death."
The Community Engagement Continuum: Outreach, Mobilization, Organizing and Accountability to Address Violence Against Women in Asian and Pacific Islander Communities (PDF)
This report conceptualizes the Community Engagement Continuum in order to categorize a range of community based approaches in the anti-violence movement and to clarify the goals of engagement. The four points on the continuum--community outreach and education, community mobilization, community organizing, and community accountability--are defined by the level to which the strategies used lead to increases in the community's capacity to transform relations of power.
The Facts about Domestic Violence
This fact sheet provides current information and statistics on domestic violence. Information includes a working definition, exploration of how different communities are affected by domestic violence and legal protections for victims of domestic violence.
The Facts about Sexual Violence
This fact sheet provides current information and statistics on sexual violence. Information includes a working definition, explanation of different forms of sexual violence and legal protections for victims of sexual violence.
The Facts about Stalking
This fact sheet provides current information and statistics on stalking. Information includes a working definition, exploration of different forms of stalking and legal protections for victims of stalking.
The Facts about Teen Dating Violence
This fact sheet provides current information and statistics on teen dating violence. Information includes a working definition, exploration of different forms of teen dating violence and legal protections for victims of teen dating violence.
The First Visit (PDF (color))
As a part of the toolkit, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse”, this document is a checklist for the first visit for service providers reaching out to faith-based organizations regarding elder abuse.
The Full Faith and Credit Project
An overview of the Full Faith and Credit Project, including their history, mission, and plans for the future. Updated June 2000.
The Greenbook Initiative: Lessons Learned from the Domestic Violence Community
"Video interviews with five of the demonstration sites to highlight some of the lessons learned and common themes that emerged over the course of the initiative."
The Principles of Advocacy: A Guide for Sexual Assault Advocates
This document provides "a better understanding of the far-reaching impact of sexual assault against American Indian and Alaskan Native women by exploring specific elements of perceptions, policy, and other key factors in order to determine the scope of the problem."
The Snapshot Project
A project that gathered statistics and vignettes from states, tribes and local communities, in order to highlight changes that have occurred as a result of funding through the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
The Use of Expert Witnesses in Cases Involving Sexual Assault
This Violence Against Women Online Resources commissioned document summarizes the existing knowledge on the use of expert witnesses in cases involving sexual assault. The author uses both published literature and contributions provided by numerous experts in the field to discuss the use of expert testimony, the general dynamics of sexual assault, and common reactions of victims in the prosecution of criminal sexual assault cases. Specific information on who, what, when and how to use expert witnesses, along with the effects of expert witnesses on jurors is provided.
The Violence Against Women Act: A Housing Toolkit for Advocates (PDF)
"The toolkit is designed to provide advocates with an overview of VAWA’s housing provisions and includes administrative guidance, recent legal developments, and sample advocacy materials."
Toolkit to End Violence Against Women (PDF)
To provide concrete guidance to communities, policy leaders, and individuals engaged in activities to end violence against women developed the Toolkit To End Violence Against Women. The recommendations contained in the Toolkit were reviewed by numerous experts in the fields of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking. Each Toolkit chapter focuses on a particular audience or environment and includes recommendations for strengthening prevention efforts and improving services and advocacy for victims.
Una Historia Real: Cosechando Mis Derechos La Historia de Sarita (PDF)
This document provides information and resources for Spanish speaking rural women who are victims of domestic abuse.
Understanding Women’s Experiences Parenting in the Context of Domestic Violence: Implications for Community and Court-Related Service Providers
This Violence Against Women Online Resources commissioned document describes the intersection between woman abuse and parenting. The authors identify and discuss seven central themes that highlight the challenges of parenting in the context of woman abuse. Specific implications and recommendations for community and court service providers are also offered.
Undue Influence: The Criminal Justice Response - Trainer Materials (PDF)
This is a training curriculum that can be used "to explore the parallels between UI and domestic violence, stalking, and grooming so that law enforcement officers can better understand the dynamics of some financial exploitation cases and implement effective investigative strategies."
Unheard Voices: Domestic Violence in the Asian American Community (PDF)
This report examines the strategy and methodology used in collecting critical information about the attitudes as well as the strategies used by the varied Asian American communities to combat domestic violence. Focus groups were organized to examine common cultural attitudes and beliefs on domestic violence among the Asian immigrant groups. The findings of these focus groups are discussed.
Victim Responses to Sexual Assault: Counterintuitive or Simply Adaptive? (PDF)
"This resource provides information on the different responses that individuals who are sexually assaulted display as well as the different coping strategies of victims."
Victim-Defendants: An Emerging Challenge in Responding to Domestic Violence in Seattle and the King County Region
This report contains information for practitioners and policy-makers in criminal justice and community-based agencies who share the goal of ensuring safety, justice, and support for domestic violence survivors who commit domestic violence-related crimes. The authors welcome feedback from readers on whether they know of programs specifically for DV survivors who have been arrested and charged with DV-related crimes. This information would be added to an updated report. Feedback can be sent to info@kccadv.org.
Video Cameras (PDF)
This Tip Sheet on Video Cameras was developed to help agencies and communities respond effectively to the ways that technology impacts victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence and stalking. The document looks at how the technology works, how agencies and partnerships are using it, benefits and risks, and things to consider when using Video Cameras.
Warning!!: How an Abuser Can Discover Your Internet Activities (PDF)
This article discusses email safety and methods for clearing the computer cache of visited sites.
Was I Raped? (PDF)
This document can be used by rape crisis centers or other sexual assault agencies to provide information on how to identify if you have been raped or sexually assaulted. The document addresses considerations in determining whether or not a sexual act is consensual or if it is a crime and common question about rape. Agencies can add their own logo and contact information to the document.
Web Accessibility (PDF)
A variety of technologies are available to ensure that the Internet is accessible for every person regardless of disability. This Tip Sheet on Web Accessibility was developed to help agencies and communities respond effectively to the ways that technology impacts victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual violence and stalking. The document looks at how the technology works, how agencies and partnerships are using it, benefits and risks, and things to consider when thinking about Web Accessibility.
What Should I Do? (PDF)
This document can be used by rape crisis centers or other sexual assault agencies to provide information on what to do if you have been raped or sexually assaulted. Agencies can add their own logo and contact information to the document.
When a Youth is Victimized
This document provides information on how to help a youth who has been victimized by crime.
When the Batterer is a Law Enforcement Officer: A Guide for Advocates (PDF)
"This manual is intended for advocates who work with victims whose abusers are members of law enforcement. It explores the reasons why familiar remedies are often inadequate against an officer batterer's power and control over the victim and his influence within the criminal justice system. It challenges us to find alternatives, and to hold both police officer batterers and policing accountable for violence against women and their children."
Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse (PDF (color))
As a part of the toolkit, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse”, this booklet is designed especially for faith leaders and for anyone who participates in a faith community or congregation. While anyone can be the victim of abuse, older adults often keep personal matters private and may not know where to go for help. The goal of this resource is to provide information that will allow you to: recognize the signs of elder abuse, offer support and information to victims, and know where to turn for assistance.
Working Effectively with the Police: A Guide for Battered Women's Advocates
Revised August 2001. Battered women's advocates and police departments in several jurisdictions have been successful in developing a more effective police response to domestic assault cases. This article highlights information advocates need in order to work collaboratively and effectively with police officers and other law enforcement personnel. The author discusses the changes police officers have made regarding when and how they arrest, investigate, write reports, and how they work with and support prosecutors and victim advocates.
Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence
This tool kit has been designed to help groups and individuals learn about and undertake work with men and boys for violence prevention. It provides readings, case studies, handouts, exercises, and other resources as well as community-building tools.
Workplaces Respond to Domestic and Sexual Violence: A National Resource Center
The Workplaces Respond to Domestic and Sexual Violence: A National Resource Center project offers information on the Internet for the benefit of those interested in providing effective workplace responses to victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, dating violence and stalking. Funded by the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women, the Workplaces Respond project is a partnership of the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF), Legal Momentum, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape and its National Sexual Violence Resource Center, Resource Sharing Project of the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault, American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence, Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence, and Victim Rights Law Center.