Futures Without Violence

Guidelines

Breaking the Cycle: Fathering After Violence, Curriculum Guidelines and Tools for Batterer Intervention Programs

The Batterer Intervention Program curriculum guidelines and tools presented in this document are part of a larger effort to engage all men – both non-violent men and those who have used violence.

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Manual

Accountability and Connection with Abusive Men: A New Child Protection Response to Increasing Family Safety

This guidebook captures a decade of research and practice wisdom on strategies for intervening with and engaging men in the context of child protection. It is a resource for anyone working with families in the child protection system.

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Manual

16 Trauma-Informed, Evidence-Based Tips for Advocates

Recommendations and tips to help guide IPV advocates in their daily work with mothers and families.

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Policy Paper

Policy Brief: Summary of Provisions to Address Overlaop of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in CAPTA/FVPSA Reauthorization

In 2010 President Obama signed into the law The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) Reauthorization. CAPTA is the only law dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

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Report

Understanding Evidence Part 1: Best Available Research Evidence, A Guide to the Continuum of Evidence Effectiveness

This document aims to explain the purpose and meaning of the Continuum of Evidence of Effectiveness, a tool that was developed to facilitate a common understanding in the field of violence prevention.

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Report

Steps Towards Safety: Improving Systemic and Community Responses for Families Experiencing Domestic Violence

This report speaks to the pioneering programs inspired by a growing appreciation of the pervasiveness danger and consequences of domestic violence for women and their children.

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Manual

Preventing Family Violence: Lessons Learned from the Community Engagement Initiative

This handbook describes strategies for achieving the goals and lessons learned by the Community Engagement groups.

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Report

Preventing Family Violence: Community Engagement Makes a Difference

This report looks at some of the lessons learned from community-based efforts to counter family violence. The bulk of the report focuses on five key goals that emerged from the FVPF’s survey, goals that are critical to family violence prevention efforts.

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Guidelines

Family Team Conferences in Domestic Violence Cases

These guidelines are primarily intended to provide additional information to trained Family Team Conference facilitators in the context of Family Team Conferences.

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Report

Evidence-Based Practices for Children Exposed to Violence

This package of information summarizes findings and evidence from federal reviews of research studies and program evaluations to help localities address childhood exposure to violence.

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Report

Batterer Intervention: Doing the Work and Measuring the Progress

In December 2009, national experts in batterer intervention and domestic violence gathered to discuss how to improve intervention systems and design research that better informs practice. This report summarizes their findings.

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Manual

Advocacy Matters: Helping Mothers and Their Children

Many women who have experienced domestic violence are also involved with the child protection system (CPS). Most are poor, and a disproportionate number are women of color, both immigrant and U.S. born.

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Manual

Activist Dialogues: How Domestic Violence and Child Welfare Systems Impact Women of Color and Their Communities

The document offers recommendations designed to address the co-occurrence of child abuse and domestic violence. It also aims to strengthen the understanding and capacity of primary systems.

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Report

The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study

The ACE Study is ongoing collaborative between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente. It reveals staggering proof of the health, social, and economic risks that result from childhood trauma.

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Manual

Compendium of State/Territory Statutes and Policies on Domestic Violence and Health Care

The Compendium is an at-a glance summary of state and U.S. territory laws, regulations and other activities relevant to addressing domestic violence in health care settings.

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Guidelines

Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (Hippa): Summary Of Federal Medical Privacy Protections For Victims Of Domestic Violence

Developed for health care professionals, this resource guide discusses the implications of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) for domestic violence reporting.

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Manual

Connect: Supporting Children Exposed to Domestic Violence

Connect is a three hour curriculum, Power Point presentation, video and related tools intended for use in child welfare settings with foster parents, kin caregivers, and adoptive parents with all levels.

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Guidelines

Greenbook: Effective Interventions In Domestic Violence And Child Maltreatment Guidelines For Policy And Practice

Effective Interventions offers a comprehensive set of policy recommendations designed to increase safety for mothers and children experiencing both domestic violence and child maltreatment.

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Poster

Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies

The poster sends the message that babies and kids thrive when their moms thrive. Moms thrive in healthy relationships—ones that are respectful, nurturing and caring.

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Poster

Hanging Out or Hooking Up Poster

The poster identifies aspects of both healthy and unhealthy relationships, encourages talking to a healthcare provider if the reader or someone they know has questions or is experiencing abuse.

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Guidelines

Hanging Out or Hooking Up: Clinical Guidelines on Responding to Adolescent Relationship Abuse: An Integrated Approach to Prevention and Intervention

These are guidelines focused on the transformative role of the adolescent health care provider in preventing, identifying and addressing adolescent relationship abuse (ARA).

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Poster

When You Bring Your New Baby Home

When You Bring Your New Baby Home Poster.

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Poster

When Mom Gets Abused Her Children Suffer Too

This poster was designed for pediatric health care settings and identifies for parents how domestic violence may impact the health of their child.

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Brochure

The Amazing Teen Brain: What Every Parent Needs to Know

The Amazing Brain series of booklets is designed to educate parents and caregivers about early brain development, the effects of trauma on the brain, and the potential for the brain to heal and grow.

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Brochure

Amazing Brain: What Every Parent or Caregiver Needs to Know

The Amazing Brain series of booklets is designed to educate parents and caregivers about early brain development, the effects of trauma on the brain, and the potential for the brain to heal and grow.

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Brochure

Amazing Brain: Trauama and the Potential for Healing

The Amazing Brain series of booklets is designed to educate parents and caregivers about early brain development, the effects of trauma on the brain, and the potential for the brain to heal and grow.

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Brochure

The Amazing Brain and Discipline: Positive Parenting Builds Healthy Brains

The Amazing Brain series of booklets is designed to educate parents and caregivers about early brain development, the effects of trauma on the brain, and the potential for the brain to heal and grow.

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Brochure

Safe Homes, Safe Babies: Perinatal Safety Card

This tool also functions as a prompt for perinatal health care providers by providing quick phrases to improve discussions with women about the impact of domestic violence on their parenting and children.

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Brochure

Connected Parents, Connected Kids Safety Card

Connected Parents, Connected Kids is a safety card designed for parents that health care providers can distribute as part of universal education. In addition to providing safety resources for women, this tool also functions as a prompt for health care providers to discuss Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the impact on parenting.

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Manual

Child and Family Service Review Outcomes: Strategies to Improve Domestic Violence Responses in CFSR Program

This guide can help state child welfare agencies who are undergoing a Child and Family Service Review (CFSR) to develop effective Program Improvement Plans (PIPs) for achieving safety.

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Brochure

Healthy Moms, Happy Kids: Pediatric Safety Card

Healthy Moms, Happy Kids is a safety card for moms that pediatric health care providers can distribute as part of routine care. In addition to providing safety resources for women, this tool also functions as a prompt for pediatric health care providers by providing quick phrases to improve discussions with women about the impact of domestic violence on their parenting and children.

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Brochure

Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies: Home Visitor Safety Card

This tool functions as a prompt for home visitors by providing quick phrases to improve discussions with women about the impact of domestic violence on their parenting and children.

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Brochure

Hanging Out or Hooking Up: Teen Safety Card

The card challenges all teens to consider how their boyfriend/girlfriend treats them, identifying dynamics of healthy relationships and signs that may indicate abuse.

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Manual

If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Project Leadership In Multi-System Change Efforts To Address The Co-Occurrence Of Domestic Violence And Child Maltreatment

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.

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Report

Building Capacity In Child Welfare Systems: DV Specialized Positions

This report seeks to assist policymakers and practitioners in developing specialist positions that are tailored to the circumstances of their communities and states.

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Report

Turning Pain Into Power: Trafficking Survivor’s Perspectives On Early Intervention Strategies

As part of this research report, interviews were conducted with 21 survivors of human trafficking. The research, importantly, confirmed our hypothesis that for some trafficked victims, as for victims of domestic violence, health care was a potential missed opportunity for early intervention.

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Manual

Steps Toward Safety: Improving Systemic And Community Based Responses For Families Experiencing Domestic Violence

This report speaks to the pioneering programs inspired by a growing appreciation of the pervasiveness, danger and consequences of domestic violence for women and their children.

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Report

Reflections from the Field: DV Specialized Positions

This document is a reflection of the discussions that occurred at that Exploring the Role of Specialized Positions in Child Welfare and Domestic Violence Collaborations (Specialized Positions Meeting) and literature reviews.

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Report

Raising Our Voices: Queer Asian Women’s Response to Relationship Violence

Raising Our Voices is based on the results of a focus group with Asian immigrant women and Asian American women from different backgrounds.

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Report

(Un)Heard Voices: Domestic Violence In The Asian American Community

(Un) Heard Voices is based on the results of a focus group with Asian immigrant women and Asian American women from different backgrounds.

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Manual

Organizing a Community-Based Response To Domestic Violence: The Filipino Experience

Using the Filipino community as a model, this publication serves as a guide to organizing immigrant communities against violence in the home.

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Report

Intimate Partner Violence in Immigrant and Refugee Communities: Challenges, Promising Practices, and Recommendations

Information on the challenges, prevention and treatment of intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and refugee communities.

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Manual

Culture Handbook

This handbook is designed to be used by advocates and professionals who work with victims/survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

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Manual

Community Self Assesment Tool

This Community Self-Assessment Tool is designed to assist child protection, domestic violence, mental health or juvenile court systems to communicate more effectively.

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Manual

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.

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Manual

Building The Rhythm Of Change: Developing Leadership And Improving Services Within The Battered Rural Immigrant Women’s Community

This manual is geared primarily toward domestic violence service providers focused on advancing the rights of battered immigrant women and improving their access to services.

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Manual

Breaking the Silence: A Training Manual for Activists, Counselors, and Latina Organizers

This manual is for domestic violence service providers, activists, counselors and others focused on advancing the rights of battered immigrant women.

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Report

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 beyond observation.

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Manual

Advocacy Beyond Leaving: Helping Battered Women in Contact with Current or Former Partners

This guide explains advocates’ important role in safety planning and offers practical suggestions when victims are in contact with current or former partners.

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Poster

Violence Doesn’t Have to be Part of Your Life

This poster was specifically designed to encourage Asian patients in health care settings to talk to their health care provider about domestic violence.

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Monthly Archives: July 2014

Futures Without Violence