Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Toolkit for Humanitarian Settings (pdf)
"This Toolkit is intended to guide humanitarian program managers and health care providers to ensure that sexual and reproductive health interventions put into place both during and after a crisis are responsive to the unique needs of adolescents."
American Academy of Pediatrics Toolkit on the Prevention of Sexual Violence
"A new, practical video Preventing Sexual Violence: an Educational Toolkit on CD-ROM for Health Care Professionals shows doctors how to talk to patients and parents about sexual violence prevention."
Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action
Best Practices looks at the effectiveness of specific violence prevention practices in four key areas: parents and families; home visiting; social and conflict resolution skills; and mentoring. These programs are drawn from real-world experiences of professionals and advocates who have successfully worked to prevent violence among children and adolescents. As a CDC publication, the sourcebook also documents the science behind each best practice and offers a comprehensive directory of resources for more information about programs that have used these practices. This publication is out of print and only available electronically. Copia en Espanol en .pdf
The Blueprint for Safety, originally developed and implemented in Saint Paul, MN, is a prototype that can be used by any community hoping to link its criminal justice agencies together in a coherent, philosophically sound domestic violence intervention model.
This ToolKit includes information and materials to assist in a creating a program for children who have experienced trauma. Its design lends itself to using components individually or in combination. It can easily be customized to meet individual program needs.
Community Action Kit: Helping Preteens and Teens Build Healthy Relationships (pdf)
"This kit is intended to provide a convenient collection of some existing resources. We’ve put this kit together to give caring adults ideas about how to help young people choose good relationships. The kit contains a broad overview of existing information and gives ideas of where to go for more information."
Community Guide to Raise World Awareness on Adult Abuse (pdf)
This resource was created to help individuals, organizations and communities throughout the world plan for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Also referred to in this kit as "World Awareness Day", this event had its debut on June 15, 2006, and is recurring on June 15th each year. This Toolkit is also useful to plan for further awareness-building activities, as well as to support ongoing projects and events throughout the months and years to come.
Domestic Violence Campus Organizing Guide for Health Professional Students and Faculty (pdf)
This guide was created for professional health students and faculty to help raise awareness that domestic violence is a health care issue on campus and beyond. Recommendations are provided on increasing student activism, curricular reform, on-campus trainings, community collaborations, faculty support, and provides examples of innovative approaches other professional health students have undertaken nationwide.
This resource is a toolkit to aid African victims of domestic violence in Ireland. It contains information about support services for all types of domestic violence and culturally specific approaches unique to African migrants. The toolkit also addresses emerging issues facing African migrants in Ireland.
El Paso Cultural Competency Toolkit (pdf)
This toolkit seeks to provide Greenbook Partners and other community agencies with the motivation to implement an organizational cultural competency assessment and to strengthen their commitment to operating in a culturally competent manner. The toolkit provides materials to facilitate the organizational planning and assessment process.
Elder Abuse Speaker's Kit (pdf)
A resource kit for protecting older people and people with disabilities.
Existe Ayuda (Help Exists) Toolkit
The Existe Ayuda Toolkit provides Spanish-language tools and resources to help improve the cultural competence of service providers and the accessibility of services for Spanish-speaking victims of sexual violence. The materials provided—glossaries, PowerPoint presentations, and other tools—will help facilitate the work of bilingual/bicultural staff, especially those who are just beginning Spanish-language programs.
Gender-Based Violence & Harassment: Your School, Your Rights
This 2 page document from the ACLU Women's Rights Project provides an overview of students’ rights related to gender-based violence and harassment.
Getting Safe and Sober: Real Tools You Can Use (pdf)
"A practical tool kit for use with women who have substance abuse or chemical dependence problems and who are, or have been, victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or sexual abuse. The kit also can be used to train service providers about the needs of women whose experience includes both substance abuse and victimization."
Good for Staff, Good for Business - Family violence: How employers can help (pdf)
The "Family Violence: It's not OK" campaign aims to change the way New Zealanders think and act in relation to family violence. This toolkit is designed for employers and business owners. It outlines what family violence is, how it affects the workplace, and gives simple ways workplaces can start to help those affected as well as being part of the social movement to end family and domestic violence.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Domestic Violence Toolkit for Attorneys
This legal resource was produced as part of the ABA’s Legal Assistance and Education for LGBT Victims of Domestic Violence Project, which was created to provide national leadership and education on domestic violence issues in LGBT communities. This toolkit contains helpful resources to assist attorneys and their clients in better understanding and responding to domestic violence in the context of LGBT relationships.
This resource provides researchers, specialists, and educators with tools to measure a range of bullying experiences: bully perpetration, bully victimization, bully-victim experiences, and bystander experiences. An example of a provided tool is the "Perception of Teasing Scale" (POTS).
Men Against Sexual Violence Toolkit (pdf)
"The Men Against Sexual Violence Toolkit is intended to help individuals interested in including men in anti-sexual violence efforts by providing community outreach suggestions, information on access to K-12 and college/university students, and strategies for establishing committed and financially secure local MASV task groups. Additionally, this toolkit provides information that can be helpful in extending outreach to a variety of victimized men. "
"This toolkit includes a sample proclamation to be customized by universities, program ideas for events throughout the month of September and beyond, and product information for National Campus Safety Awareness Month materials."
Preventing Sexual Violence: An Educational Toolkit for Health Care Professionals
"This online toolkit designed for use by health care providers is organized around four video case vignettes: Preschool, School Age, Younger Adolescent, and Older Adolescent. Each vignette is accompanied by supporting tools grouped into 4 categories: Clinical, Parent/Patient, Community Resources/Advocacy, Practice Management."
Promising Practices in Serving Crime Victims With Disabilities Toolkit
This toolkit is a guide and resource for organizations seeking to improve their skills and response to crime victims with disabilities. It is designed to benefit a wide range of entities and explore a variety of issues, but its primary use is for identifying and addressing the issues and obstacles that people with disabilities encounter in the aftermath of abuse or victimization.
Reaching Latino Victims of Sexual Violence: A Marketing Toolkit (pdf)
"This toolkit provides an overview of one communities work to create a Latino public awareness and outreach campaign. It provides an overview of the research that informed the approach, the five radio spots that were developed, including their scripts, and tips for adapting this campaign."
Reporters Toolkit: Investigating Sexual Assault Cases on Your Campus
This toolkit serves as an introductory guide on how to investigate the ways your school deals with sexual assault allegations. Basic information is provided on laws and policies, the Clery Act, and additional resources for investigating campus sexual assault.
Restoring Dignity: A Toolkit for Religious Communities to End Violence Against Women (pdf)
The second in a series of two manuals aimed at raising awareness and educating religious leaders and communities about gender-based violence. It offers religious leaders, faith communities, and Inter-religious Councils the tools to carry out awareness, prevention, and advocacy programs to end violence against women.
SART Toolkit: Resources for Sexual Assault Response Teams
This toolkit includes resources for victim service agencies on the development, expansion, or improvement of interagency response teams. Resources place special emphasis on putting the victim first in the course of responding.
This toolkit employs art, in various forms, as a universal language and medium for communicating the message about sexual assault prevention and awareness.
Shifting the Paradigm: Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence Toolkit (pdf)
This toolkit, developed by the American College Health Association, provides facts, ideas, strategies, conversation starters, and resources to those on college campuses invested in the prevention of sexual violence. The emphasis of this toolkit is to encourage prevention activities, to create social change, and shift the norms regarding sexual violence.
Student Council Toolkit on Dating Abuse: Facts and Campaign Ideas for your School (pdf)
This toolkit provides information on how your school can better inform students on healthy dating practices. It gives stats on why student groups should be concerned with dating abuse as well as giving ideas of different events or programs your school can run in order to better educate students.
Toolkit for Integrating Domestic Violence Activities into Programming in Europe and Asia (pdf)
"A manual designed to address violence against women, and specifically domestic violence, as a global human rights violation. Additionally, it explores the connections between domestic violence and human trafficking and analyzes different programming models for addressing the needs of survivors in (United States Agency for International Development) USAID programs. The toolkit is intended for USAID workers, donor organizations, and local organizations working to combat violence against women in countries where USAID operates."
Toolkit for Working with Men and Boys
"This web site provides a tool kit designed to help people work with men and boys to prevent gender-based violence. It provides readings, case studies, handouts, exercises, and other resources as well as community-building tools."
Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons
"A toolkit that offers guidance, recommended resources, and promising practices to policymakers, law enforcers, judges, prosecutors, victim service providers and members of civil society who are working in interrelated spheres towards preventing trafficking, protecting and assisting victims and promoting international cooperation."
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA): A Toolkit for Educating Policy Makers About Reauthorization (pdf)
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) provides a lifeline for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. VAWA expires in 2011 and must be reauthorized to ensure a continued federal response. The National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women has developed this VAWA reauthorization education and awareness toolkit in order to aid you - the experts, leaders, and advocates - in educating federal policymakers about the needs of survivors of violence and why the reauthorization of VAWA is critical to meeting these needs.
Violence Against Women on Campus PreventionToolkit
The Campus Toolkit is a practical tool to help students on college campuses develop events, programs and trainings on violence against women and its link to reproductive health. This toolkit will allow you to put the "kNOwMORE Campaign" into action on your campus. Adapt it for your local college or university, and work to say “no more” to violence against women.
This manual is designed as a training tool for community workers and activists to promote the knowledge, skills, and attitudes
needed to engage men in VAW prevention. It aims to increase knowledge about VAW,explore the causes and consequences of VAW, and promote skills in effective approaches and strategies for engaging men in VAW prevention.
Also available in Arabic
Workplaces Respond to Domestic and Sexual Violence: A National Resource Center
An interactive website with tools that employers can use to develop and download a workplace policy addressing stalking and domestic, sexual and teen dating violence that is right for them. Also on the site are fact sheets, frequently asked questions with answers, a protection order guide, safety and security information, and an interactive training component.