Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies

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Healthy Moms, Healthy BabiesHealthy Moms, Happy Babies is a poster co-branded by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and accompanies the perinatal safety card. 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. The poster encourages people to talk to their health care provider and view the Healthy Moms, Happy Babies safety card for further information about healthy relationships and domestic violence. Toll-free numbers are also listed for the National Hotline on Domestic Violence and National Teen Dating Abuse hotline. Available in three versions featuring a pregnant African American woman and daughter (English); a pregnant Caucasian woman and son (English) and a third with a pregnant Latina woman and son (Spanish). The poster is 11″x17″.

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Hanging Out or Hooking Up Poster

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Hanging Out or Hooking UpThis poster was designed for display in a range of health sites serving adolescents including school-based health centers, school nurses offices, teen clinics, and pediatricians offices. The poster identifies aspects of both healthy and unhealthy relationships, encourages talking to a health care provider if the reader or someone they know has questions or is experiencing abuse.

The bottom of the poster refers patients to the National Teen Dating Abuse Hotline, Suicide Prevention Hotline, Teen Runaway Hotline, and Sexual Assault Hotline for further support.

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

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coverHanging 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). With one in five (20%) U.S. teen girls reporting ever experiencing physical and/or sexual violence from someone they were dating and one in four (25%) teens in a relationship reporting being called names, harassed, or put down by their partner via cell phone/texting, ARA is highly prevalent and has major health consequences. Health care providers can help by providing prevention messages about healthy relationships and helping those exposed to abuse. Available as a digital download.

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When Mom Gets Abused Her Children Suffer Too

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When Mom Gets Abused Her Children Suffer TooThis 17” x 11”poster was designed for pediatric health care settings and identifies for parents how domestic violence may impact the health of their child. The poster is accompanied by a photograph of a young boy and the caption reads: “When Mom Gets Abused Her Children Suffer Too”.

The Poster identifies the health effects of domestic violence on children and encourages parents to talk to their health care provider for more information. Additionally, the poster encourages people to call 911; or the National Hotline on Domestic Violence (including TDD number) for help. Available in English and Spanish.

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The Amazing Teen Brain: What Every Parent Needs to Know

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The Amazing BrainThe 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 in order to help to prevent the physical, mental, behavioral, and cognitive effects of early trauma. The Institute of Safe Families has created four “Amazing Brain” booklets, written at a fifth grade level, to educate parents about brain development. Pediatricians can use these resources with Anticipatory Guidance. Child-serving organizations can also use them with their constituents. These booklets are being used throughout the U.S. and Canada.

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Amazing Brain: What Every Parent or Caregiver Needs to Know

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The Amazing BrainThe 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 in order to prevent the physical, mental, behavioral, and cognitive effects of early exposure to trauma. The Institute of Safe Families has created four “Amazing Brain” booklets, written at a fifth grade level, to educate parents about brain development. Pediatricians can use these resources with Anticipatory Guidance. Child-serving organizations can also use them with their constituents. These booklets are being used throughout the U.S. and Canada.

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Amazing Brain: Trauama and the Potential for Healing

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The Amazing BrainThe 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 in order to help to prevent the physical, mental, behavioral, and cognitive effects of early trauma. The Institute of Safe Families has created four “Amazing Brain” booklets, written at a fifth grade level, to educate parents about brain development. Pediatricians can use these resources with Anticipatory Guidance. Child-serving organizations can also use them with their constituents. These booklets are being used throughout the U.S. and Canada.

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The Amazing Brain and Discipline: Positive Parenting Builds Healthy Brains

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The Amazing Brain and DisciplineThe 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 in order to prevent the physical, mental, behavioral, and cognitive effects of early trauma. The Institute of Safe Families has created four “Amazing Brain” booklets, written at a fifth grade level, to educate parents about brain development. Pediatricians can use these resources with Anticipatory Guidance. Child-serving organizations can also use them with their constituents. These booklets are being used throughout the U.S. and Canada.

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Safe Homes, Safe Babies: Perinatal Safety Card

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Perinatal Safety CardSafe Homes, Safe Babies is a safety card for women that perinatal health care providers can distribute to patients. In addition to providing safety resources for women, 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.

The safety card outlines questions women may ask themselves about their relationships, birth control use and parenting, while offering supportive messages and referrals to national support services for help. This 4-panel double sided tool folds up to the size of a business card (3.5″ x 2″).

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Connected Parents, Connected Kids Safety Card

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Updated Connected Parents, Connected Kids is now available to order!

Connected Parents, Connected Kids safety card shown layered front and back. The front depicts a Black father and child laughing, a cropped image of two white feminine hands with painted nails into a heart over a pregnant stomach, and an image of a middle-aged Indigenous woman holding a baby who is playfully eating the woman's nose.

The Connected Parents, Connected Kids Safety Card is a universal education tool that health care and community-based providers can distribute as part of universal education with families to discuss Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), relationships (healthy and unhealthy), and resilience.  This resource is appropriate for a variety of settings, including pediatrics, reproductive health, home visitation and other early childhood professionals.

The safety card offers supportive messages and strategies for positive parenting to prevent intergenerational transmission of ACEs to help families thrive and heal.  It also includes safety resources and warmlines for parents and other caregivers.

This 5-panel double-sided tool folds up to the size of a business card (3.5” x 2). This resource is available in English and Spanish in Hard Copy and PDF.

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

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Child and Family Services Review OutcomesThis 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, permanency, and well-being in domestic violence cases, and to identify or anticipate related technical assistance needs.

CFSRs evaluate public child welfare systems to determine how well they achieve safety, permanency, and well-being in difficult situations of neglect, physical and sexual abuse, and co-existing domestic violence, substance abuse, mental health issues, poverty, and community violence. Once the review is completed and the final report written, state child welfare stakeholders develop PIPs for their public child welfare system. Unidentified domestic violence or unsafe intervention in domestic violence situations may contribute to poor outcomes for families.

The Child and Family Service Review Outcomes is available as a digital download. To order hard copies, call the National Council on Juvenile and Family Court Judges at 1-800-527-3223.

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Healthy Moms, Happy Kids: Pediatric Safety Card

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Healthy Moms, Happy KidsHealthy 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.

Co-branded by the Academy for Pediatrics, the safety card outlines questions women may ask themselves about their relationships, birth control use and parenting, while offering supportive messages and referrals to national support services for help. Also included are pointers for talking to children about violence and what to do in the event of an emergency. This 4-panel double sided tool folds up to the size of a business card (3.5″ x 2″). Available in English and Spanish.

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Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies: Home Visitor Safety Card

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Healthy Moms, Happy Babies is a safety card for women that home visitors can distribute.  In addition to providing safety resources for women, this tool also 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.

The safety card outlines questions women may ask themselves about their relationships, birth control use and parenting, while offering supportive messages and referrals to national support services for help. This 4-panel double sided tool folds up to the size of a business card (3.5″ x 2″).

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Hanging Out or Hooking Up: Teen Safety Card

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adolescent_new_english_2017Hanging Out or Hooking Up is a safety card for teens. The card challenges all teens to consider how their partner treats them, identifying dynamics of healthy relationships and signs that may indicate abuse.  The card also explores how to confront excessive text messaging and identifies dynamics of consensual versus pressured sex including the ability to use birth control. Tips are provided to those wanting to support a friend who may be facing relationship abuse.

The card is written in gender-neutral terms and may be used by females or males in either heterosexual or LGTBQ relationships. The card lists national toll-free hotlines for support specific to dating abuse, suicide prevention, teen runaway, rape, incest and abuse. This 8-panel card folds up to the size of a business card (3.5” x 2”) and may be distributed directly to youth, or stocked in bathrooms, or health care exam rooms for people to take individually. Available in English and Spanish.

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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

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If I Knew Then What I know NowThis 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. Multi-system collaborations need strong leaders with vision, commitment, and an ability to inspire others to move forward with the desired project.

 

 

 

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Building Capacity In Child Welfare Systems: DV Specialized Positions

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This report seeks to assist policymakers and practitioners in developing specialist positions that are tailored to the circumstances of their communities and states. The report offers observations about initial expectations for these positions and the evolution of the positions over time.

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

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Turning Pain into Power CoverAs 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.

A set of initial steps and recommendations were identified that could enable the health-care community to respond more effectively.

This report includes:

          • Background on human trafficking
          • Why is trafficking a healthcare issues?
          • Research mythology
          • Findings
          • General recommendations
          • Healthcare Rights as Human Rights
          • Sample survivor stories

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

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Steps Toward Safety CoverThis 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. It provides a portrait of a quiet crisis brewing in the 1980s and 1990s as well as discussions among stakeholders, increasingly robust research, templates from new programs, and dissemination of information that has contributed to a new framework for aiding abused families. Now it is time to mine the lessons arising from these efforts, consider the practices and policies, and identify their implications for the future.

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Reflections from the Field: DV Specialized Positions

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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.

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

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

The following Voices from the Focus Group comprise the main sections:

        • Redefining Violence in Same-Gender Relationships
        • Different Characteristics of Abuse
        • Identifying the Batterer from the Survivor
        • The Need to Respond to Emotional Safety
        • Creating Models for Healthy Relationships
        • What Does it Mean for Queer Asian Women to Feel Safe?
        • Making your Agency a Safe Place
        • Addressing Safety in the Community
        • Batter Services Are a Service to the Survivor
        • Is the Criminal Justice System an Option?
        • Helping One of Our Own
        • Considering the Impact of the Survivor
        • Breaking the Cycle of Violence in the Community
        • Community Responses are Key in Addressing Relationship Violence
        • Holistic Services: Widening Our Vision of Who we serve and How We Provide Services to Them

The report includes major recommendations to service providers and the Appendix Section includes national listing of organizations devoted to Asian battered women.

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

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

The following Voices from the Focus Group comprise the main sections:

        • Prevalence of domestic violence in Asian communities;
        • Is domestic violence cultural?
        • Who are the victims and perpetrators?
        • Is Calling the Police an Option?
        • Is Calling the Hotline an Option?
        • Barriers Confronting Asian Battered Women
        • What should happen to the batterers?
        • Is Domestic Violence a Public Matter?
        • What Can the Community do to Stop the Violence?
        • What Kinds of Services would make a Difference?

The report includes major recommendations to service providers and the Appendix Section includes national listing of organizations devoted to Asian battered women.

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

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Organizing A Community Based Response CoverUsing the Filipino community as a model, this publication serves as a guide to organizing immigrant communities against violence in the home.  It chronicles the establishment of outreach and education efforts that involve survivors and others as leaders in the community.

Each chapter’s “Lessons Learned” section summarizes key components to developing a successful community-based response to domestic violence.  Also included is a “how-to” guide for putting together a community-based conference on domestic violence.

You will also find information on:

  • History of a Filipina Advisory Committee
  • Leadership development skills
  • Basic information on domestic violence dynamics
  • Understanding the Filipino community
  • Working with the media
  • Workshop facilitation
  • Planning a conference
  • Sample skits on domestic violence
  • Power and control wheel

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

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IPV in Immigrant and Refugee Communities CoverThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation solicited the assistance of the Futures Without Violence (FWV) to collect information on the challenges, prevention and treatment of intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and refugee communities.

After reviewing the literature, collecting data from interviews and examining existing prevention and treatment programs, FWV issued this report, which offers recommendations and summaries for future work and funding efforts.

The report contains four sections:

  • Background information, including a definition of IPV, data about the incidence of this problem, and discussion of special dynamics in refugee and immigrant communities.
  • An overview of the needs and challenges of immigrant and refugee IPV victims and service providers, including case studies that draw on interviews with leaders and staff of seven programs across the United States.
  • Recommendations for funders, service providers and policy-makers to serve the various needs of IPV victims.
  • A discussion of IPV research and evaluation issues that need to be addressed in refugee and immigrant communities

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Culture Handbook

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Culture Handbook CoverThis handbook is designed to be used by advocates and professionals who work with victims/survivors 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/survivors.

The handbook gives some guidance on how to understand the complex ways in which people respond to intimate violence.  In simple terms, the handbook outlines on some basic ways in which to begin the process of becoming aware on both an individual and institutional basis.

The handbook includes information on the following topics:

  • Why consider culture?
  • Developing cultural competency
  • Increasing accessibility for all underserved communities
  • Increasing accessibility for immigrant communities
  • Model programs that work well on interpreter issues

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Community Self Assesment Tool

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GreenBook LogoThis Community Self-Assessment Tool is designed to assist child protection, domestic violence, mental health or juvenile court systems to communicate more effectively together on behalf of families that are experiencing domestic violence and child maltreatment and are involved in multiple systems. This document is intended to assist communities which have already begun some kind of collaborative process. Experience tells us that collaboration is a strategy to achieve better outcomes for families, not an end goal.

More information about the Greenbook Initiative.

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Collaborating To Help Trafficking Survivors: Emerging Issues And Practice Pointers

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Collaborating to Help Trafficking Survivors CoverThis 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.

The information in this manual will help you assess your role in helping trafficking survivors and provide practice pointers and tools to build or enhance collaborations.

 

Topics presented include:

  • Trafficking and Its Victims
  • Working with Trafficking Survivors
  • Improving Your Approach
  • Meeting the Needs of Survivors
  • Maintain Role Integrity
  • Needs and Services
  • Collaboration
  • Working with Enforcement
  • Public Benefits

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

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Building the Rhythm of Change CoverThis manual is geared primarily toward domestic violence service providers focused on advancing the rights of battered immigrant women and improving their access to services, but may also be a useful reference for other organizations or individuals advocating for immigrants’ legal rights.

Provided in this workbook, how to:

        • Build a cohesive group of women leaders,
        • Recruit service providers and other agencies to participate,
        • Organize and host a forum where the two groups interact equally,
        • Create commitments to make services accessible and non-discriminatory.

Also in this book, tools to secure the project’s success:

  • Checklists on setting goals, planning the forum
  • Sample sheets on using skits, setting agendas
  • Easy reference to each stage of the project
  • Exercises and workshop instructions
  • Suggestions from pilot projects

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

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Breaking the SilenceThis manual is for domestic violence service providers, activists, counselors and others focused on advancing the rights of battered immigrant women. Based on the FWV’s successful pilot project, the manual provides essential details on how to start organizing and maintaining a group of activists and counselors.

It includes information on:

        • How to organize a group
        • How to make community changes
        • Basic information on domestic violence
        • How to support a victim/survivor
        • Basic information about protection orders
        • Basic information on the Violence Against Women Act and immigration law
        • Information on your rights as an immigrant and much more…

This manual also has:

  • A guide for presentations
  • Exercises on the different topics
  • Sample materials
  • Sample educational skits

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Beyond Observation: Considerations for Advancing Domestic Violence Practice In Supervised Visitation

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Beyond Observation CoverThis paper presents considerations for expanded practice in the Supervised Visitation Grant Program and describes interventions that go beyond observation in the supervised visitation setting. The information for this paper comes from a number of sources including: interviews with experts in the field; a review of the literature on supervised visitation; observations of center operations; and focus groups conducted with consumers, staff, judges, lawyers and key constituents of supervised visitation centers. The intended audience includes the staff of visitation centers, clinicians, lawyers, judges, domestic violence advocates, and men’s non-violence programs.

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

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coverUsing the familiar and concrete framework of woman-defined advocacy, the 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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Violence Doesn’t Have to be Part of Your Life

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Violence Doesn't Have to Be Part of Your Life CoverThis 11” x 17” poster was specifically designed to encourage Asian patients in health care settings to talk to their health care provider about domestic violence. Referral to the National Hotline on Domestic Violence is provided along with the TTY number. Blank space is included at the bottom of the poster so facilities can write in local hotlines, or identify local programs for further support.

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Violence Destroys: Keep Families Sacred

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Violence Destroys CoverThe Violence Destroys: Keep our Families Sacred American Indian/Alaska Native poster was developed for use in health care and community-based programs and encourages patients to talk to their health care provider about domestic violence.

The bottom of the 17” x 11” poster includes blank space to add local domestic violence hotline and referral information.

This resource is available in English and Spanish as a PDF download.

 

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Did You Know Your Relationship Affects Your Health?

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PosterThis is a new poster specific to family planning and reproductive health settings. The poster asks patients whether they have experienced reproductive coercion—forced sex, birth control sabotage, coerced pregnancy, or violence—by an intimate partner.

Women are encouraged to talk to their health care provider for more information and help and are also referred to the National Hotline on Domestic Violence, the Teen Domestic Violence Hotline and the Sexual Assault Hotline for further support.

This 11 by 17 poster (not laminated) may be posted in waiting rooms, exam rooms, or restrooms.

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Nobody Deserves to be Abused

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Nobody Deserves to be AbusedThis 17” x 11” poster was designed specifically for health care settings and encourages women to talk to their health care providers about domestic violence. The headline reads: “Nobody deserves to be abused” with subtext: “No matter what he says, the abuse is not your fault.  Talk to your health care provider. We can help.”   The poster advertises the National Hotline on Domestic Violence, and includes blank space below the graphics so facilities can add a local hotline or other referral for help.

Three versions of this poster are available: In English for the US general population, in English specific to the African American population, and in Spanish.

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Feeling Alone? Don’t Know Who to Talk To?

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Feeling Alone?This 11” x 17” poster was developed for use in all health care settings to encourage patients to talk to their providers about domestic violence. The headline reads: “Feeling Alone? Don’t Know Who to Talk To?” with subtext: “Is someone hurting you? Talk to your health care provider. We can help.” Blank space is included at the bottom of the poster so facilities can write in local hotlines, or identify local programs for further support.

The digital version is available in both English and Spanish. The hardcopy is available in Spanish only.

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Contrary to Popular Belief, Straight People Do Not Have a Monopology on Abusive Relationships

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PosterThis 11” x 17” poster was designed by Fenway Community Health Center for use in health care settings to encourage lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender-identified individuals to talk to their health care providers about relationship abuse. The poster includes a photo of two men and two women with headline: “Contrary to popular belief, straight people do not have a monopoly on abusive relationships.” The subtext reads: “Abuse is not always physical. And straight people aren’t the only ones with the problem. If you think you might be in an abusive relationship, you are not alone. Whether you’re gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, talk to someone who can help. Today. Before things get worse.” Referral to the national hotline on domestic violence is provided along with the TTY number. Blank space is included at the bottom of the poster so facilities can write in local hotlines, or identify local programs for further support. Available in English and Spanish.

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Are You Tired of Making Excuses for Him?

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Are You Tired of Making Excuses for Him? This poster was designed for use in health care settings and encourages patients to talk to their health care providers about domestic violence. Referral to the National Hotline on Domestic Violence is provided along with the TTY number. Blank space is included at the bottom of the poster so facilities can write in local hotlines, or identify local programs for further support. The digital version is available in both English and Spanish. The hardcopy is available in Spanish only.

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Voices of Survivors: Domestic Violence Survivors Educate Physicians

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Voices of SurvivorsWritten and directed by Christina Nicolaidis, MD for health care providers, Voices of Survivors addresses the dynamics of domestic violence, its prevalence, and the need for providers to routinely assess patients for abuse. This 30 minute video offers specific step by step instructions on how to assess, intervene, address patient safety, and provide referrals. In addition, the video describes the hidden costs and impact on physical and mental health that could be mitigated if assessment were to occur. Dr. Nicolaidis’ video is strengthened by interviews she conducted with survivors of domestic violence who retell their personal experiences and offer suggestions for health care providers to improve their response.

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Screen to End Abuse

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Screen to End AbuseThe Screen to End Abuse DVD includes five clinical vignettes demonstrating techniques for assessing and responding to domestic violence in primary care settings. Screen to End Abuse provides the tools needed to:

 

  • Incorporate routine assessment into a busy medical practice;
  • Respond effectively to patients affected by domestic violence; and
  • Institute policies and procedures for identifying and responding to domestic violence, including changing the environment of a clinical practice to let patients know they are safe to disclose abuse.

Screen to End Abuse received a 2003 Telly Award honoring outstanding television commercials, video productions and films. The film is 32 minutes and looped (for continuous play).

Produced and funded by: Futures Without Violence, the University of California, San Francisco and the California Medical Training Center with major funding from the California Endowment.

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Team Decision Making And Domestic Violence

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Team Decisionmaking and DVAn advanced domestic violence curriculum for Team Decisionmaking (TDM) facilitators and child protection supervisors on safely preparing for and managing effective meetings, engaging parents around DV issues, assessing the impact of children’s exposure to DV, and making decisions and plans to increase safety for children and battered mothers. The curriculum is designed as a daylong (six hour) training and draws upon several important concepts in current child welfare literature, including:

  • Family-centered practice
  • Solution-focused interviewing
  • Signs of Safety approach to practice
  • Clear distinctions between danger and risk
  • Comprehensive family assessment
  • Eliminating disproportionality (over- or under-representation of various racial and ethnic groups as compared to the general population) in child protection

Curriculum and Tools:

For more information about these materials, email childrensteam@futureswithoutviolence.org

 

The National Health Care Standards Campaign Model Practices

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National Health Care Standards CampaignThe National Health Care Standards Campaign on Family Violence: Model Practices from 15 States summarizes the experiences and outcomes of 15 U.S. states that enacted state-wide public health responses to domestic violence.

Funded by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the goals of the campaign were to craft new policies and continuous funding sources for clinical responses to domestic violence; develop a set of comprehensive, multi-disciplinary clinical guidelines on domestic violence; confront society’s acceptance of domestic violence and raise awareness by generating small and large scale public health campaigns, and pilot a business case for domestic violence that defends the need for screening and intervention from an ethical and financial perspective that can be used to engage managed care companies, health policy makers, and administrators. Participating states and districts included: Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. The 44-page booklet describes these multi-state strategies and outcomes.

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The National Consensus Guidelines on Identifying and Responding to Domestic Violence Victimization in Health Care Settings

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National Consensus GuidelinesThe National Consensus Guidelines on Identifying and Responding to Domestic Violence Victimization in Health Care Settings was developed to assist health care providers in addressing domestic violence victimiztion, assessment, intervention, referral and documentation.  These consensus-developed guidelines were developed with over 35 experts in the field.

The guidelines are designed to assist health care providers from multiple settings and in various professional disciplines in addressing domestic violence victimization. It includes assessment, documentation, intervention and referral information. These guidelines are also the first of their kind to address assessment for lifetime exposure as well as current abuse and to make recommendations on how to prepare your practice to assess both women and men for victimization. The Guidelines were accepted for inclusion in National Guideline Clearinghouse and measures accepted for inclusion in National Quality Measures Clearinghouse.

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Relationships, Support, and Wellness: Mental Health Safety Card

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Mental Health Safety CardThis safety card is designed to assist behavioral health providers in talking to women about domestic violence as part of routine care. Co-branded by the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health, the card poses simple questions to help women examine whether their relationship is healthy and safe, while exploring potential impacts on health and mental health including anxiety, suicidal ideation, drug and alcohol use, and chronic stress. The impact of childhood exposure to violence is also discussed.

The card offers pointers to increase wellness including tips on resiliency, healthy relationship dynamics and self-care strategies. National hotlines and websites are provided for the National Domestic Violence Hotline, Alcohol and Drug Helpline and National Suicide Lifeline. Written in gender neutral language, the card may be offered to women of any sexual orientation and may be given directly to female patients as part of routine screening, or stocked in private areas like bathrooms or exam rooms. This 4-panel double sided tool folds up to the size of a business card (3.5″ x 2″).

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Is Your Relationship Affecting Your Health: Safety Card

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This 4-panel double-sided tool folds up to the size of a business card (3.5″ x 2″) and was designed for women receiving health care services.  The card helps women recognize how their relationship impacts their health as well as the lives of their children and provides information on safety planning. The safety card lists specific health problems that may be the result of chronic stress from an abusive relationship. It also offers women who are in abusive relationships guidance on talking with their children. The backside of the card refers people to the National Domestic Violence Hotline for further support. This tool is most effective when placed in private areas such as restrooms and exam rooms and may be given to patients routinely as part of regular visits, or upon disclosure of abuse.

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Did You Know Your Relationship Affects Your Health: Reproductive Safety Card

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titlesidefullpanels_reproengThis small safety card was designed for family planning and reproductive health settings. The card prompts patients to ask themselves whether they are in a healthy relationship or if they have experienced reproductive coercion—forced sex, birth control sabotage, forced pregnancy, or violence—by an intimate partner. The card is designed to help women recognize how their intimate relationships may impact their reproductive health and their children’s health, while providing information for safety planning and referral.

The backside of the card refers patients to the National Hotline on Domestic Violence, the National Teen Dating Violence Hotline and the Sexual Assault Hotline for further support. This tool is most effective when placed in private areas such as restrooms or exam rooms and may be given to patients routinely as part of regular visits, or upon disclosure of abuse (following routine assessment for violence by a healthcare provider).

 

Available in English and Spanish.

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We Are Sacred: American Indian/Alaska Native Reproductive Health Safety Card

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We Are Sacred Safety CardThis small safety card was designed for health settings serving Native communities including IHS clinics, Tribal health centers, and Urban Indian Health Centers. The card prompts patients to ask themselves whether they are in a healthy relationship or if they have experienced reproductive coercion—forced sex, birth control sabotage, forced pregnancy, or violence—by an intimate partner.

The card is designed to help women recognize how their intimate relationships may impact their reproductive health, while providing information for safety planning and referral. Basic information about sexual and reproductive health is also included, as well as information on how to help a friend or family member who may be experiencing abuse.

The backside of the card refers patients to the National Domestic Violence Hotline and the National Sexual Assault Hotline for further support, and a space to write the name and phone number of a local advocacy program. This tool is most effective when given to patients routinely as part of regular visits.

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Women Are Sacred: American Indian/Alaska Native Safety Card

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Women Are Sacred Safety CardThe American Indian/Alaska Native Women’s Health Safety Card was developed in partnership with the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center. The card aims to help women recognize healthy and unhealthy relationship dynamics and identify how their relationship may impact their health, as well as their children. The card lists specific health issues that may be the result of chronic stress from an abusive relationship; offers suggestions to improve health and safety outcomes; and describes typical services provided by domestic violence/sexual assault advocacy programs. The backside of the card refers people to the National Domestic Violence Hotline and hotlines for sexual assault and child abuse. This card may be given to patients routinely following a provider’s DV/SA screen; distributed at health fairs or community outreach events; and is also effective when stocked in private areas like bathrooms and exam rooms. This 4-panel double sided tool folds up to the size of a business card (3.5″ x 2″).

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We Are Worthy: American Indian/Alaska Native Safety Card

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We Are Worthy SafetycardWe Are Worthy is a safety card for women and girls of reproductive age who live in Alaska, including those from Alaska Native villages. The card may be distributed by health care providers, social service providers, advocates, health teachers, and others as part of routine care, or as part of advocacy support, or educational groups. In addition to providing information, positive messages, and safety resources for women, this tool also functions as a prompt for health and behavioral health care providers by providing quick phrases to improve discussions with women about the impact of relationship violence and sexual violence on their overall health and the health of their pregnancies and children.

This card was co-created with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and the Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project, and is based on feedback from (primarily) Alaska Native and American Indian women and girls from many rural villages, small towns, and cities in Alaska. The safety card outlines questions women may ask themselves about their relationships, their sexual and reproductive rights, how relationships may influence their health such as with substance use, depression, and drinking during pregnancy. It does this while offering supportive messages that a woman who is experiencing these things is not alone, and while providing referrals to national support services for help. Although developed in Alaska, the content applies for a national audience. Additional versions are available that include Alaska region-specific DV shelter numbers. This 4-panel double sided tool folds up to the size of a business card (3.5″ x 2″).

To request hard copies, please visit: www.anthc.org (Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium) or email a request to Jo Gottschalk at Jo.gottschalk@alaska.gov.

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Good Solutions Solve Multiple Problems: Addressing the Links Between Multiple Forms of Violence

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Title: Good Solutions Solve Multiple Problems: Addressing the Links Between Multiple Forms of Violence

Date Taped: March 18, 2013

Description: All violence is connected, and recognizing the links between different forms of violence can strengthen various prevention efforts. Some factors that make violence in homes more likely also operate at the neighborhood level, for example, and building resilience in young people can protect against both community violence and family violence. This webinar will describe how one type of violence can lead to other forms, and will present cross-cutting solutions that prevent childhood trauma and simultaneously address multiple forms of violence.

This webinar is presented by the Defending Childhood Initiative, in partnership with the Office on Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention and Futures Without Violence.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the linkages between various forms of violence in families, communities and society.
  • Understand the unique drivers that have resulted in current approaches in addressing and responding to violence.
  • Develop strategies for preventing multiple forms of violence in families, communities and society.

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