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National Teen Dating Abuse Hotline: "Love is Respect" provides resources for teens, parents, friends and family, peer advocates, government officials, law enforcement officials and the general public.
Futures Without Violence provides helpful information and excellent, comprehensive training materials and resources. Manuals for health care providers, publications on working with immigrant women, and workplace safety kits.
Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse: A comprehensive violence web site. This web site has links to an enormous number of violence related web sites and is well organized.
Family Violence Prevention Fund provides helpful information and excellent, comprehensive training materials and resources. Manuals for health care providers, publications on working with immigrant women, and workplace safety kits.
Medscape: Comprehensive medical web page with primary care and specialty articles and CME. The first time you visit this free web page, you must register and submit a password. (Anyone with internet access is able to register). Search on domestic violence for multiple articles. Visit award winning video on how to screen for domestic violence by typing in “Screen to End Abuse”. Visit summary article by Dr. Leigh Kimberg "Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Primary Care Practice." by searching on "domestic violence" and "Leigh Kimberg”.
Toolkit to End Violence Against Women: Developed by the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women. Each Toolkit chapter focuses on a particular audience or environment and includes recommendations for strengthening prevention efforts and improving services and advocacy for victims.
Office on Violence Against Women, US Department of Justice: Provides national leadership in developing the nation's capacity to reduce violence against women through the implementation of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
Safe Start Center: National project on childhood exposure to violence including brochures in English and Spanish with advice for parents, caregivers, teachers and others who care for children.
Start Strong: A national initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to prevent teen dating violence and other teen violence
Adverse Childhood Experiences Study: A collaborative ongoing research program of Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control on how adverse childhood experiences including child abuse and exposure to adult IPV relate to later illness and risk factors for illness.
Adverse Childhood Experiences research studies: To find publications for the ACE study, go to Pub med and search on “adverse childhood experiences and felitti"
RADAR for men—a project of the Institute for Safe Families
Understanding IPV—additional resources
Adverse Childhood Experiences Study: A collaborative ongoing research program of Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control on how adverse childhood experiences including child abuse and exposure to adult IPV relate to later illness and risk factors for illness.
Adverse Childhood Experiences research studies: To find publications for the ACE study, go to Pub med and search on “adverse childhood experiences and felitti"
Kaiser Silent Witness Project: an online and portable display on healthcare providers and staff who share their own stories of surviving IPV . The stories are available in English, Spanish, and Chinese
Lenore Walker—groundbreaking original work on describing “battering” of women
Headington Institute: An international center that provides “care to caregivers” including multiple online training courses and helpful materials on vicarious traumatization
Primary Prevention of Domestic Violence
Prevention Connection: National online project dedicated to the primary prevention of violence against women.
The Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA): network of WHO Member States, international agencies and civil society organizations working to prevent violence.
Transforming Communities: Basic instruction on the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of violence
Futures Without Violence: Provides helpful information and excellent, comprehensive training materials and resources. Manuals for health care providers, publications on working with immigrant women, and workplace safety kits.
MaleSurvivor: National organization committed to preventing, healing, and eliminating all forms of sexual victimization of boys and men through support, treatment, research, education, advocacy, and activism.
Mending the Sacred Hoop:
S.T.O.P. violence against Native American women, a technical assistance project.
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network: National anti-sexual assault organization, which operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1.800.656.HOPE and the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline at ww.rainn.org. Provides education on sexual assault; and leads national efforts to prevent sexual assault, improve services to victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.
Professional Organizations with IPV policies
American Medical Association Advisory Council on Violence and Abuse, case studies, and prevention resources. Physician guidelines link includes detailed diagnostic and treatment guidelines on violence and abuse for domestic violence, child abuse, elder abuse and sexual assault or you can type in any violence related term to locate materials on this site.
American Academy of Pediatrics: See the AAP policy statement on IPV found by searching on the term “domestic violence” on this site.
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has provided decades of leadership in preventing violence against women. Searching their site on "domestic violence" provides you with many resources. Their policies on "violence against women" are summarized here.
Women’s Law Initiative: Provides easy-to-understand legal information and resources to women living with or escaping domestic violence or sexual assault.
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