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Abuse and Women with Disabilities
Author: Margaret Nosek & Carol Howland for VAWnet
Description: 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. The authors also provide recommendations for research and program development.
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Date Added: 06/08/2000 Building Bridges Between Domestic Violence Organizations and Child Protective Services
Author: Linda Spears
Description: 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.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005 Building Comprehensive Solutions to Domestic Violence: Outreach to Underserved Communities
Author: Sujata Warrier
Description: This curriculum is designed to help domestic violence programs reach out to underserved communities in order to address the issues of diversity and of the limited access to quality services for battered women from those communities. Its appendices include handouts and worksheets for participants and overheads and readings for trainers. It is structured as a two day training and is designed for a program rather than individuals.
Date Added: 03/18/2004 Increasing Agency Accessibility for People with Disabilities: DV Agency Self-Assessment Guide
Author: Cathy Hoog, Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services, for the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Description: The Coalition developed this tool specifically for domestic violence organizations to increase their
program’s ability to work with people with disabilities. This self-assessment guide is intended to assist domestic
violence programs in evaluating their accessibility to victims with disabilities in their community.
Date Added: 09/22/2003 Innovative Strategies to Address Domestic Violence in Asian and Pacific Islander Communities: Examining Models, Themes and Interventions
Author: Mimi Kim
Description: 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.
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Date Added: 08/06/2003 Not a Minute More: Ending Violence Against Women
Author: United Nations Development Fund for Women
Description: This report highlights many of the achievements towards the empowerment of women and indicates what must be done to build on them. It provides examples of practices as well as efforts that did not meet the goals set out for them — and explores why. It looks at the challenges ahead and asks what the most fruitful next steps might be.
Date Added: 05/24/2004 Online Domestic Violence Training Program
Author: Simmons College, School of Social Work
Description: Eight online training units intended to teach social workers a basic knowledge of domestic violence. Each unit is followed by a quiz with ten multiple choice questions.
Date Added: 01/18/2005 Raising Public Awareness on Domestic Violence in Indian Country
Author: Karen Artichoker and Verlaine Gullickson
Description: In collaboration with the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual
Assault, its member organizations and Native American advocates throughout the state,
Cangleska, Inc., the violence against women intervention and shelter program on the Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, developed domestic violence public awareness
materials focusing specifically on rural and Native American communities. Materials included
posters, public service announcements used in radio talk shows and an updated version of a
domestic violence handbook for Lakota communities.
Date Added: 08/06/2003 Tell the World What Happened to Me: Findings and Recommendations from Washington State Domestic Violence Fatality Review
Author: Margaret Hobart, Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Description: A quantitative summary of the domestic violence fatality cases tracked and reviewed in depth. This report contains descriptive information about the fatalities, such as who was killed, their ages and races, how frequently homicidal domestic violence abusers were also suicidal and what weapons were used. This report is the second of two that were issued. The first report, Honoring Their Lives,
Learning from Their Deaths, was released in December 2000. The findings and recommendations from the 2000 report continue to be relevant; this report should be considered its companion, not its replacement.
Date Added: 03/04/2003 The Role of Restorative Justice in the Battered Women’s Movement
Author: Loretta Frederick and Kristine C. Lizdas
Description: This article provides a comparison of the principles and practices of the restorative justice and battered women's movements. It provides an analysis and critique of each movement's response to domestic violence, and proposes an interpretation of what is effective, redemptive and liberating about the practices of each. Ultimately the paper provides suggested directions for future work within both fields.
Date Added: 12/19/2003
A Review of Standards for Batterer Intervention Programs
Author: Juliet Austin and Juergen Dankwort for VAWnet
Description: 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 chart outlining the status of standards in each state.
Date Added: 06/09/2000 Batterer Intervention State Standards
Author: Batterer Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan
Description: This is an extensive directory of state and county standards for batterer intervention and domestic violence education.
Date Added: 06/09/2000 Characteristics of Batterers in A Multi-Site Evaluation of Batterer Intervention Systems
Author: Edward W. Gondolf, EdD, MPH
Description: Includes: A summary of findings for a 12-month follow-up; A summary of findings for a 15-month follow-up; and
List of Papers and Staff
Date Added: 06/09/2000 Controversies and Recent Studies of Batterer Intervention Program Effectiveness
Author: Larry Bennett, Ph.D. and Oliver Williams, Ph.D.
Description: This VAWnet document examines the effectiveness of batterer intervention programs and particularly addresses how they work, for whom do they work best, and which elements of the program are most important.
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Date Added: 11/07/2001 Discharge Criteria for Batterer Programs
Author: Edward W. Gondolf
Description: Clinical judgement typically plays a central role in the discharge of the patients from alcohol and mental health treatment. Batterer programs instead rely almost exclusively on program attendance to determine discharge. This paper uses a 10-item set of criteria to rate participants in a 13-week court mandated batterer program. It concludes with a discussion of methodological limitations, practical issues, and alternative applications of discharge criteria.
Date Added: 06/09/2000 Do Batterers' Programs Work?
Author: Jeffrey L. Edleson
Description: This article examines the complexities of the question: "Do batterer's programs work?" It begins by exploring the word "works". It then scrutinizes published outcome data on the
issue through various lenses of public debate on treatment effectiveness. It concludes with suggested policy and program directions for future interventions.
Date Added: 06/09/2000 Substance Abuse and Woman Abuse by Male Partners
Author: Larry Bennett for VAWnet
Description: This piece explores the overlap between substance abuse and battering. The author examines various perspectives regarding the relationship between substance abuse and violence, explores research on substance abuse by batterers, and discusses substance abuse by battered women. Includes recommendations for improving interventions with batterers who also abuse substances.
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Date Added: 06/09/2000 The Impact of Mandatory Court Review On Batterer Program Compliance: An Evaluation of the Pittsburgh Municipal Courts and Domestic Abuse Counseling Center (DACC)
Author: Edward W. Gondolf
Description: Summary of an evaluation of the court review process for men referred to batterer counseling from the
Domestic Violence Court in Pittsburgh.
Date Added: 05/01/1998 Violence Against Women - Synthesis of Research on Offender Interventions
Author: Daniel G. Saunders
Description: This report provides an overview of the latest research on interventions for men who assault
women—wives, girlfriends, and acquaintances. The assaults may be physical or sexual, and they
almost always involve psychological abuse. The overview begins with a description of the major
components of current programs and then describes what is known about effective assessment
and treatment methods. Several topics are covered that are often of interest to practitioners,
including methods for enhancing treatment motivation, assessment of dangerousness, and
culturally competent practice. The role of research in resolving controversial issues and the
characteristics of sound evaluations are also discussed. Programs reviewed will be those
commonly labeled as "social service," "treatment," and "psycho-educational," as opposed to
purely criminal justice interventions.
Date Added: 10/12/2004 Working with Young Men Who Batter: Current Strategies and New Directions
Author: Dean Peacock and Emily Rothman, MS
Description: This article offers an overview of the recent juvenile
batterer intervention programs. It identifies risk factors
for teen dating violence perpetration as described by the
literature and considers the utility of these findings,
describes efforts to prevent re-offenses by juvenile
perpetrators of domestic violence, discusses several
shortcomings inherent in post-crisis intervention, and
outlines current challenges within the field.
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Date Added: 01/14/2002
Trapped in Poverty/Trapped by Abuse: New Evidence Documenting the Relationship Between Domestic Violence and Welfare
Author: Jody Raphael of the Taylor Institute and Richard M. Tolman of the University of Michigan
Description: This report is a summary and analysis of recent research studies which identify the extent of domestic violence among women receiving welfare that helps gauge the effects of violence on women's lives, their use of welfare, and on their ability to become economically self-sufficient.
Date Added: 06/08/2000 Welfare and Domestic Violence Against Women: Lessons from Research
Author: Eleanor Lyon, Ph.D.
Description: This VAWnet paper provides a succinct summary of welfare
research, with a focus on the aspects that have
implications for advocates and others who work with women
who receive TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families-
the program established under PRWORA).
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Date Added: 09/10/2002
A Medical Provider's Guide to Managing the Care of Domestic Violence Patients within a Cultural Context
Author: Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence, New York
Description: OCDV and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene developed a training and reference guide for healthcare providers as part of a campaign to reduce cultural, linguistic and systemic barriers preventing domestic violence victims, particularly immigrant women and women of color, from reporting abuse to their healthcare providers.
Date Added: 05/24/2004 Critique of the "Battered Woman Syndrome" Model
Author: Mary Ann Dutton for VAWnet
Description: This document provides an overview of the concept
"battered women syndrome" and examines the inadequacy of the model for describing battered women's experiences, whether it is used in expert testimony, counseling, or advocacy.
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Date Added: 06/08/2000 Domestic Violence: A Primary Care Issue for Rural Women
Author: Linda Chamberlain, MPH, PhD.
Description: This article underscores the role of a primary health care
provider for rural women who experience domestic
violence.
Date Added: 09/09/2002 Evaluating Domestic Violence Programs
Author: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Description: This quality assessment tool for the evaluation of hospital-based domestic violence programs was developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and cosponsored by the Family Violence Prevention Fund to improve the health care response to victims of domestic violence.
Date Added: 11/06/2002 Family Violence Nursing Curriculum
Author: Marlene Jezierski, Maura Lynch, Margaret Dexheimer Pharris, Judi Sateren
Description: While nurses must be able to respond skillfully to victims of all types of violence, responding to victims of family violence requires sensitivity rooted in understanding how it differs from other types of violence. The content of this curriculum, which grew out of the 1999 American Association of Colleges of Nursing competencies, was developed in response to those findings to provide Minnesota nursing faculty essential curricular information to develop student competence in preventing, assessing, and responding to family violence across the lifespan.
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Date Added: 08/04/2004 Female Genital Mutilation: Integrating the Prevention and the Management of Health Complications into the Curricula of Nursing and Midwifery (Student's Manual)
Author: World Health Organization
Description: This student manual is part of a set of training materials which has been prepared by the World Health Organization to facilitate training of health professionals on female genital mutilations.
Date Added: 10/12/2004 Female Genital Mutilation: Integrating the Prevention and the Management of Health Complications into the Curricula of Nursing and Midwifery. (Teacher's Guide)
Author: World Health Organization
Description: This teacher's guide is part of a set of training materials prepared by the World Health Organization to facilitate training of health professionals on female genital mutilation.
Date Added: 10/12/2004 Intersecting Inequalities: Immigrant Women of Colour, Violence and Health Care
Author: Yasmin Jiwani, Ph.D.
Description: This report focuses on racialized immigrant women who have experienced intimate violence and their access to the health care system. The paper reviews current literature and identifies key variables that contribute to immigrant women's vulnerability to violence and lack of access to health care. The response of health care service providers is also examined.
Date Added: 09/10/2003 Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault: A Guide to Training Materials and Programs for Healthcare Providers
Author: Alison Osattin, MPH and Lynn M. Short, Ph.D, MPH National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 1998
Description: This 118 page PDF file describes 36 sets of training materials designed to show healthcare providers how to treat domestic violence and sexual assault cases. The materials described include manuals, videos, scripted lectures with
slides, information packets and handbooks. This is a PDF file and must be viewed with Adobe Acrobrat reader.
Date Added: 04/13/2000 Preventing Domestic Violence: Clinical Guidelines on Routine Screening
Author: Family Violence Prevention Fund
Description: In this document, the Family Violence Prevention Fund
presents recommendations for how domestic violence screening
should occur within the health care system and recommends
that all health care institutions and practitioners follow
these guidelines which include both a general policy
statement and specific recommendations.
Date Added: 10/26/2005 Swallowing the Hurt: Exploring the Links Between Anorexia, Bulimia and Violence Against Women and Girls
Author: Shelley Moore, with the assistance of Kelly D'Aoust, Donna Robertson, Christina Savage and Yasmin Jiwani
Description: This report examines the links between eating disorders and violence against
women and girls. It is based on information gathered from published literature
as well as consultations with community workers, health practitioners, and
mental health professionals. “Swallowing the Hurt” has been designed for use by
frontline workers, health care and social service professionals, educators, and
researchers who offer services directly for or who may interact with women and
girls experiencing eating disorders or violence.
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Date Added: 09/09/2003 Violence, Pregnancy and Abortion: Issues of Women's Rights and Public Health
Author: Maria de Bruyn
Description: This review of literature aims to motivate researchers, policy makers, health professionals,
personnel of the legal and law enforcement sectors, and nongovernmental organization
(NGO) program implementers to increase their efforts to address the problem of
violence in relation to pregnancy and abortion. The monograph first presents information
on the possible links between violence, pregnancy and abortion in Section 1 and then
discusses measures that can be taken to address the problem in Section 2.
Date Added: 09/09/2003 World Report on Violence and Health
Author: World Health Organization
Description: This report examines the types of violence that are present worldwide and which constitute the bulk of the health burden imposed by violence. Topics include violence as a global health problem, youth violence, child abuse and neglect, intimate partner violence, elder abuse, sexual violence, self-directed violence, collective violence and recommendations for action.
Date Added: 12/19/2003
Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence
Description: This website contains information about the intersection of religious issues and child abuse, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and clergy misconduct.
Date Added: 10/26/2005 Impact: Feature Issue on Violence Against Women with Developmental or Other Disabilities
Author: produced by the Institute on Community Integration
Description: Examines how disability service providers, sexual and domestic violence programs, law enforcement, researchers, and women with disabilities can work together to respond to a major civil rights, quality of life, and health issue for women with disabilities - the presence of violence in their lives.
Date Added: 01/17/2001 Minnesota Rural Project for Women and Child Safety
Author: Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
Description: A website that provides a curriculum and protocol
development information for communities in Minnesota who
are beginning to work together to better serve and protect
both child and adult victims of family violence
Date Added: 09/12/2002 The Snapshot Project
Author: Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service’s Institute for Child and Family Policy
Description: 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).
Date Added: 10/26/2005 Toolkit to End Violence Against Women
Author: National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women and the Violence Against Women Office
Description: A web-based resource that will provide the guidance
necessary to assist communities in their efforts to end
violence against women.
Date Added: 01/14/2002 VAWnet
Description: VAWnet, the National Electronic Network on Violence Against Women, is an online resource for advocates working to end domestic violence, sexual violence, and other violence in the lives of women and children. The library includes a resource room, general collection, law collection, periodicals, and calendar. Resources can be downloaded and printed.
Date Added: 01/17/2001
General Documents
Child Welfare Practices for Cases with Domestic Violence
Author: Oregon Department of Human Services
Description: This is the third edition of Child Welfare Practice for Cases with
Domestic Violence, developed as part of an overall effort to increase
the safety of adults and children through collaboration of domestic
violence services and child protective services.
Date Added: 03/18/2004 Collaborating for Woman and Child Safety
Author: Annelies K. Hagemeister, PhD, MSW
Description: This training curriculum, designed for multidisciplinary teams, is intended to enhance practice and policy when domestic violence and child maltreatment co-occur.
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Date Added: 05/24/2004 Conversations with Mothers of Color Who Have Experienced Domestic Violence Regarding Working with Men to End Domestic Violence
Author: Angela Autry, Lonna Davis, Kelly Mitchell-Clark and Gabriel Atchison PhD, Principal Researcher
Description: 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.
Date Added: 10/26/2005 Developing Culturally-Relevant Responses to Domestic Abuse: Asha Family Services, Inc.
Author: Antonia A. Vann
Description: A model program, Asha Family Services, Inc., is a comprehensive family violence intervention and prevention
agency located in Milwaukee, WI. Asha, the first and only recognized culturally-specific
family violence intervention and prevention program in Wisconsin, employs methods specific
to African American families.
Date Added: 08/06/2003 Forging New Collaborations Between Domestic Violence Programs, Child Welfare Services and Communities of Color
Author: Nita Carter
Description: This report summarizes the dialogues from the Women of Color Network (WOCN) focus groups on domestic violence and child welfare. Over one hundred (100) domestic violence and sexual assault activists of color participated in these focus groups. The report includes a set of recommendations and highlights from their conversations regarding issues and barriers for battered women with children from communities of color.
Date Added: 12/19/2003 Increasing Your Safety: Full Faith and Credit for Protection Orders
Author: National Center on Full Faith and Credit
Description: This guide explains Full Faith and Credit law and offers
ideas about where to get help if you have problems with
enforcement of a protection order.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005 Marital Rape
Author: Raquel Kennedy Bergen, Ph. D.
Description: This VAWnet report provides an overview of the research on
marital rape with (1) a brief legal history of marital
rape; (2) a discussion of the occurrence of marital
rape;(3) a summary of the effects of marital rape; and (4)
an analysis of practitioners' interventions with marital
rape survivors.
Date Added: 06/18/1999 Model Protocol on Safety Planning for Domestic Violence Victims with Disabilities
Author: Cathy Hoog, for Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Description: The goal of this protocol and recommended policies is to support domestic
violence agencies: to increase their safety planning services to people with
disabilities and advance self-determination for people with disabilities by
offering safety planning that is cognizant of environmental and social barriers.
This protocol builds on the existing safety planning knowledge of domestic
violence programs. Basic safety planning strategies will not be reviewed in this
document.
Date Added: 06/01/2005 Model Protocol on Screening Practices for Domestic Violence Victims with Disabilities
Author: Cathy Hoog, for Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Description: The goal of this protocol is to support domestic violence agencies in the State of
Washington in examining and revising their intake and screening process to
include questions about disability issues. Inquiring if a victim has a disability
that requires accommodation gives the program information that enables them to
provide appropriate accessible services.
Date Added: 06/01/2005 Online Domestic Violence Training Program
Author: Simmons College, School of Social Work
Description: Eight online training units intended to teach social workers a basic knowledge of domestic violence. Each unit is followed by a quiz with ten multiple choice questions.
Date Added: 01/18/2005 Parenting in the Context of Domestic Violence
Author: Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D., Lyungai F. Mbilinyi, M.S.W., and Sudha Shetty, J.D.
Description: This report describes
children’s exposure to domestic violence, the needs of both parents and children in the context of domestic
violence events, and the resources available to help them.
Date Added: 08/06/2003 Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Author: David A. Wolfe, Ph.D. and Peter G. Jaffe, Ph.D.
Description: This VAWnet document summarizes the development of prevention initiatives related to domestic violence and sexual assault. It points out trends, promising developments, and suggestions for prevention strategies.
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Date Added: 03/24/2003 Responding to Domestic Violence: Where Federal Employees Can Find Help
Author: U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Description: This guide provides concise, up-to-date information on domestic violence, with concrete advice for the employee who are victims, for friends and co-workers, and for their supervisors. It also guides the supervisor through an array of resources and management tools that can be brought to bear in a workplace violence situation.
Date Added: 12/20/1999 Responding to the Co-occurrence of Child Maltreatment and Adult Domestic Violence in Hennepin County
Author: Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D. Sandra K. Beeman, Ph.D.M, University of Minnesota
Description: 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.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005 Should Childhood Exposure to Adult Domestic Violence Be Defined as Child Maltreatment Under the Law?
Author: Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D.
Description: Published as a chapter in Protecting Children From Domestic Violence: Strategies for Community Intervention (2004), this article reviews the research on childhood exposure to domestic violence and emerging laws aimed at protecting these children. The author concludes with an argument against assuming that childhood exposure to violence is automatically a form of child maltreatment and suggests the need to modify child protection services and the expansion of primarily voluntary community-based responses to these children and their families.
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Date Added: 10/11/2005 Six Crucial Issues in Supervised Visitation
Author: Karen Oehme and Sharon Maxwell, Clearinghouse on Supervised Visitation, Florida State University
Description: 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.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005 Strategies to Improve Supervised Visitation Services in Domestic Violence Cases
Author: M. Sharon Maxwell, LCSW, Ph.D. & Karen Oehme, J.D.
Description: This Violence Against Women Online Resources commissioned document describes the evolution of supervised visitation services for domestic violence cases, notes legal trends in these cases, describes practice concerns, and presents strategies to improve the safety of participants when supervised visitation, due to domestic violence, is court-ordered.
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Date Added: 10/29/2001 The Community Engagement Continuum: Outreach, Mobilization, Organizing and Accountability to Address Violence Against Women in Asian and Pacific Islander Communities
Author: Mimi Kim
Description: 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.
Date Added: 06/01/2005 The Military Response to Victims of Domestic Violence: Tools for Civilian Advocates
Author: Judith E. Beals
Description: This handbook is designed for civilian advocates working with military victims of domestic violence—both active duty victims and partners of active duty service members—to help advocates respond to the uniquely challenging needs of this population of survivors.
Date Added: 10/26/2005 The Overlap Between Child Maltreatment and Woman Abuse
Author: Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D.
Description: Reviews over 35 studies on the overlap between child maltreatment and woman
battering in the same families. This paper has now been published in Violence Against Women, 1999, 5(2), pp. 134-154 and is no longer available on this site. This link, however, goes to a brief VAWnet paper on
the topic.
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Date Added: 05/06/1997 Understanding Women’s Experiences Parenting in the Context of Domestic Violence: Implications for Community and Court-Related Service Providers
Author: Peter G. Jaffe and Claire V. Crooks
Description: 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.
Date Added: 11/15/2005 Violence and Victimization Research Division's Compendium of Research on Violence Against Women, 1993-2004
Author: National Institute of Justice
Description: This document is a compilation of research and evaluation projects on violence against women issues from 1993 to 2004. The Compendium contains a table of contents which lists grants by topic and an index that lists the grants funded by year. Last updated December 2004.
Date Added: 03/21/2005 Working Effectively with the Police: A Guide for Battered Women's Advocates
Author: Jane Sadusky for BWJP
Description: 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.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005 Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence
Author: Family Violence Prevention Fund
Description: 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.
Date Added: 10/26/2005
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