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This document includes the paper Costs of Male Violence by Stefan de Vylder as its Appendix. "In this report, seven masculinity researchers write about masculinity in different parts of the world and about how masculinity is often linked to violence. These acts of violence are committed not only against women and children, but also against other men. The writers suggest a number of ways in which men can be involved in working to combat men's violence." The argument presented in this paper is articulated through 13 key principles:

This document presents information on the importance of collaborating with other agencies to improve culturally competent services to immigrant survivors, on how to collaborate with different agencies, and on how to address problems when working with collaboration.

This paper provides an overview of training programs and tools for improving services for victims of domestic violence. The tools described in this paper include: 1) the Domestic Violence and Survivor Assessment tool, which helps health care providers and abused women identify issues and feelings and thereby guide counseling; 2) the critical pathways to intimate partner violence, which includes the assessment of physical health, mental health, social assessment and treatment for domestic violence victims; and 3) the Delphi Instrument for hospital-based domestic violence programs, which assess the quality and performance of hospitals' response to domestic violence.

This manual is geared towards service providers responding to victims and community at large following incidents of mass violence and terrorism.

Nonprofits today are being pressed to demonstrate the effectiveness of their program activities by initiating and completing outcome-oriented evaluation of projects. This guide was developed to provide practical assistance to nonprofits engaged in this process.

This document is intended as a guide for mental health providers on screening and assessment for domestic violence among clients seen in their practice settings. Questions can be easily incorporated into existing intake forms and assessment procedures. See also Responding to Domestic Violence: Sample Forms for Mental Health Providers.

This paper explores three dimensions of audism (individual, institutional, and metaphysical) in further detail.

The research findings, based upon three focus groups of female residents from the various housing types, describe women's housing needs specifically and broadly from location to the effect of utility costs with less modern housing.

This resource discusses sexual violence as a serious public health problem with extensive short- and long-term health consequences. It identifies concepts and strategies that may be used as a foundation for planning, implementing, and evaluating sexual violence prevention activities.

Series of publications discuss a coordinated systems approach, provide model policy responses to issues impacting children exposed to domestic violence and review confidentiality and information-sharing issues that arise through collaborations.

The tool kit discusses specific actions you should take, as well as issues you need to consider, before selecting an individual to serve in your organization. The screening process presented is based upon four overarching principles: legal compliance, systematic application of procedures, matching level of screening with position-specific risk factors, and applying uniform selection criteria to all applicants for a specific position.

Bless Our Children is a powerful video that tells the story of one congregation's efforts to include sexual abuse prevention in their children's religious education. The study guide for the video provides a case study approach on child abuse prevention education in a local church, practical methods to educate parents and teachers, strategies to address possible resistance to implementing prevention education, and actual classroom examples.