Futures Without Violence

Policy Paper

Domestic Violence and Home Visiting: Federal Policy Recommendations

Policy recommendations for home visitation programs.

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Manual

How to Create a Health Care-Based Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Program

This document includes information pertaining to health care effects and costs of domestic violence, health care response to domestic violence, federal health care reform, and a model for creating domestic violence response in health care settings.

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Brochure

Building and Strengthening Health Care-Based Domestic Violence Programs Resource List

Listing of Guidelines, State Statutes and Reporting Policies , Program Development, Health Care Professional Training, Evaluation, Tools and Materials, Reference Books, IOM, Recommendations, Employee Assistance, and Position Statements.

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Guidelines

Creating a Domestic Violence Health Care Response Worksheet

Ten steps to create a health care response.

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Guidelines

Sample Domestic Violence and Strangulation Policy

This policy includes sample language surrounding the policy, procedure, and documentation for routine screening, indicators, intervention, community resources.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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

(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

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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DVD

Voices of Survivors: Domestic Violence Survivors Educate Physicians

Voices of Survivors addresses the dynamics of domestic violence, its prevalence, and the need for providers to routinely assess patients for abuse.

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Manual

Team Decision Making And Domestic Violence

An advanced domestic violence curriculum for Team Decisionmaking (TDM) facilitators and child protection supervisors.

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Brochure

There’s No Excue for Domestic Violence Bumper Sticker

Black and blue vinyl bumper stickers drive home the message: "There's No Excuse for Domestic Violence". Available in both English and Spanish.

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Brochure

Practitioner Reference Card for Domestic Violence

This laminated 3" x 5" pocket reference card is an excellent tool for health care providers who are learning how to conduct routine assessment for domestic violence.

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Manual

Improving the Health Care Response to Domestic Violence: A Trainer’s Manual

The Manual provides instructions for teaching each section of the Resource Manual including the basics of domestic violence, clinical skills, legal issues, community resources, and role play scenarios.

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Manual

Improving the Health Care Response to Domestic Violence: A Resource Manual

This resource manual aims to educate health care providers on how to improve their response to domestic violence. It contains Information, Practical Tools, and Ideas.

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Guidelines

Health Privacy Principles for Protecting Victims of Domestic Violence

A victim of domestic violence, concerned for her safety, may be discouraged from seeking health care services because she fears that her health information will not remain confidential.

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Guidelines

Minimal Elements of a Domestic Violence Health Care Protocol

Futures Without Violence selected model protocols from various health care settings across the United States, including highlights about the setting that implemented the protocol.

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Manual

Delphi Instrument for Hospital-Based Domestic Violence Programs

This instrument can be used for a variety of purposes including benchmarking, assessment, and research/evaluation.

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Guidelines

The Coding and Documentation of Domestic Violence

This paper focuses on the need for accurate documentation and coding of domestic violence in medical records and provides recommendations on how to do so.

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Manual

Building a Domestic Violence Health Care Response in Indian Country

A 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on health and violence found that 39 percent of Native women reported that they were victims of intimate partner violence.

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Guidelines

Best Practices: Innovative Domestic Violence Programs in Health Care Settings

This publication of best practices was written in 1997 to highlight innovative health care-based domestic violence programs across the U.S.

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Brochure

Improving the Healthcare Response to Domestic Violence

This six pages folio provides an overview of the health care response to domestic violence.

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National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence

For almost two decades, the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence (HRC) has supported health care professionals, domestic violence experts, survivors, and policy makers at all levels as they improve health care’s response to domestic violence.

The HRC …

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The National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence

First Virtual!
National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence

April 27-30, 2021

Hosted by the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence, the 9th National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence (NCHDV) and first virtual conference, focused on the intersections …

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Domestic Violence Health Care Partnership Project

FUTURES proudly partnered with Blue Shield of California Foundation on the Domestic Violence Health Care Partnership (DVHCP), a statewide project to integrate health care and domestic violence response systems throughout California.

Through a competitive application process, nineteen teams comprised of …

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National Institute on Fatherhood & Domestic Violence

Fatherhood can be a strong motivator for some abusive fathers to renounce their violence. Some men choose to change their violent behavior when they realize the damage they are doing to their children.
Fathering After Violence is a national initiative …

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National Institute on Fatherhood & Domestic Violence

Fatherhood can be a strong motivator for some abusive fathers to renounce their violence. Some men choose to change their violent behavior when they realize the damage they are doing to their children.

Fathering After Violence is a national initiative …

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Webinar

Strengthening Domestic and Sexual Violence Programs to Support Trafficking Survivors: Intersections, Equity, Cultural Humility, and Collaborations

Title: Strengthening Domestic and Sexual Violence Programs to Support Trafficking Survivors: Intersections, Equity, Cultural Humility, and Collaborations

Date: March 15, 2023

Time: 12:00 pm PT / 2:00 pm CT / 3:00 pm ET (90 minutes)

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Webinar

Collaborative Community Resource Mapping to Support Survivors of Human Trafficking, and Domestic and Sexual Violence

Title: Collaborative Community Resource Mapping to Support Survivors of Human Trafficking, and Domestic and Sexual Violence

Date: March 17th, 2022, 11AM PST/ 2PM EST

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Webinar

Collaborating to Increase Access to Employment and Educational Opportunities for Survivors of Human Trafficking and Domestic and Sexual Violence

Title: Collaborating to Increase Access to Employment and Educational Opportunities for Survivors of Human Trafficking and Domestic and Sexual Violence

Date: January 27th, 2022 @11AM PST/ 2PM EST

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Webinar

Strengthening Domestic and Sexual Violence Programs for Trafficked Survivors: Enhancing Identification, Case Management and Advocacy

Title: Strengthening Domestic and Sexual Violence Programs for Trafficked Survivors: Enhancing Identification, Case Management and Advocacy

Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2020

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Strengthening Domestic and Sexual Violence Programs for Trafficked Survivors: Enhancing Identification, Case Management and Advocacy

Title: Strengthening Domestic and Sexual Violence Programs for Trafficked Survivors: Enhancing Identification, Case Management and Advocacy

Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2020

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Webinar

Enhancing Community Trust: Proactive Approaches to Domestic & Sexual Violence

This webinar will provide an overview of the recent national scan to find evidence based programs and models to support children's healing. It will highlight several evidence-based interventions for parent and child survivors of domestic violence that advocates and other service providers can consider using.

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Disaster Relief: How You Can Help Victims of Domestic & Sexual Violence

Our hearts are aching for those affected by natural disasters …

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Webinar

Improving Health Outcomes Through Violence Prevention: Model Partnerships between Community Health Centers and Domestic and Sexual Violence Programs

Domestic and sexual Violence is a public health crisis, with long term health implications. Fortunately, there are strategies to respond. Futures Without Violence is excited to share effective intervention strategies and a new online toolkit for establishing and expanding partnerships between community health centers and local domestic violence/sexual assault (DV/SA) agencies.

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Facts

FACTS: Health Care for Survivors of Domestic & Sexual Violence

Survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault need a range of health and mental health services, including preventive care, to heal and thrive. Today, affordable and comprehensive care is guaranteed, including for survivors through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). …

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Webinar

Addressing and Responding to Domestic and Sexual Violence in Healthcare Settings

There is substantial research describing the dynamics and effects of domestic and sexual violence (D/SV) and co-morbid health and behavioral health conditions for women. Health care visits provide a window of opportunity to provide universal education on healthy relationships, assess patients for D/SV, and intervene if abuse is identified.

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Webinar

Open Enrollment: How the Affordable Care Act can help patients experiencing domestic and interpersonal violence

Survivors of domestic violence (DV) can now apply for and enroll in health insurance coverage through the federal Marketplace (gov) at any time during the year. They do not need to wait for Open Enrollment to begin. This Special Enrollment Period (SEP) is available to anyone who has experienced DV. Join this webinar to hear key steps and strategies for how to help clients enroll in healthcare and understand the domestic violence provisions in the Affordable Care Act.

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Webinar

Addressing Workplace Impacts of Domestic and Sexual Violence

Workplaces Respond to Domestic and Sexual Violence, a national project led by Futures Without Violence, works to increase the safety and economic security of workers. The project educates and builds innovative partnerships between workplace stakeholders - companies, worker associations and unions, and anti-violence advocates and service providers.

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Webinar

Open Enrollment AND Beyond: How the Affordable Care Act can help patients experiencing domestic and interpersonal violence

This webinar covers key steps and strategies for how to help clients enroll in healthcare and understand the domestic violence provisions in the Affordable care act.

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First Virtual! National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence

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First Virtual!
National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence