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."
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.
Building Dignity: Design Strategies for Domestic Violence Shelters
From the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Building Dignity explores design strategies for domestic violence emergency housing. Thoughtful design dignifies survivors by meeting their needs for self-determination, security, and connection. The ideas here reflect a commitment to creating welcoming, accessible environments that help to empower survivors and their children.
Campus Sexual Violence Prevention Portal
The portal includes prevention resources for college students, faculty, parents, journalists, and administrators, and places a special focus on sexual and racial minority communities. It features 6 topics and 36 tags for easy navigation, and includes over 140 concrete tools, which campuses can adapt and apply to their specific needs.
Campus Sexual Violence Prevention Portal
Developed by the Minnesota Department of Health Sexual Violence Prevention Program, the portal includes prevention resources for college students, faculty, parents, journalists, and administrators, and places a special focus on sexual and racial minority communities. It features 6 topics and 36 tags for easy navigation, and includes over 140 concrete tools, which campuses can adapt and apply to their specific needs.
Child Exposure to Violence Prevention and Awareness Week Toolkit
For Child Exposure to Violence, Prevention and Awareness Week the Safe Start Center has compiled a comprehensive toolkit with resources and information for a diverse audience on violence exposure.
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."
Coping with Violence and Traumatic Events
This resource provides links for students, parents, teachers, and responders/health providers to help in the aftermath of a crisis. This resource was created by SAMSHA following the tragedy in Sandy Hook, CT when many parents, families and communities were seeking help to cope with the aftermath of that violent incident.
This tool is designed to guide agencies through a self-reflective process on what it might look like to be doing accessible, culturally relevant, and trauma informed (ACDVTI) work in seven different key areas, and to identify strategies for getting there.
Creating Trauma-Informed Services Tipsheet Series
These nine tipsheets provide practical advice on creating trauma-informed services at domestic violence programs and for working with survivors who are experiencing trauma symptoms and/or mental health conditions. Link to the source site above, or directly to a tipsheet by clicking on the its title from the following list: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Domestic Violence Advocacy; Tips for Creating a Welcoming Environment; Tips for Enhancing Emotional Safety; Tips for Supporting Children and Youth Exposed to Domestic Violence: What You Might See and What You Can Do; Practical Tips for Increasing Access to Services; Tips for Discussing a Mental Health Referral with DV Survivors; Tips for Supporting Survivors with Reduced Energy; Tips for Making Connections with Survivors Experiencing Psychiatric Disabilities; A Trauma-Informed Approach to Employment Support: Tools for Practice.
This kit contains guidance and tools to help your organization strengthen its ability to facilitate and lead efforts for primary prevention of intimate partner violence (IPV). The information included here is based upon the activities and experiences of the DELTA PREP (Preparing and Raising Expectations for Prevention) project, which has supported the work of 19 state domestic violence coalitions to build their organizational capacity for primary prevention of IPV.
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.
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.
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.
Instigate! An Online Toolkit for Starting a Community Action Team
Set of tips, tools and exercises to start up a Community Action Team (CAT) in your neighborhood, city, faith-based group, school or place of employment. This toolkit is designed primarily for use by domestic violence and public health organizations that have the staff, structure and resources needed to launch a community mobilization campaign. It can also be adapted and used by individuals and groups that are not affiliated with a domestic violence organization as a guide for planning and carrying out awareness events in the local community.
Legal Resource Kit: Domestic Violence and Child Custody (pdf)
This Legal Resource Kit is designed to give an overview of the protections provided by the laws of different states so that you can make informed decisions about how to deal with domestic violence issues in the context of custody disputes. It will inform you about the practical steps to take in child custody disputes in which domestic violence is an issue; give a brief overview of the uniform state and federal provisions that govern interstate child custody matters; to provide information about the impact of domestic violence on child witnesses; and direct you and your attorneys to sources of information that will answer questions and concerns about domestic violence and child custody. This kit is not a substitute for the services of an attorney.
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.
Making a Difference: Strategic Communications to End Violence Against Women (pdf)
A toolkit for planning strategic communications to raise awareness about and combat gender-based violence around the world. It gives step-by-step information on developing a media campaign. Alternate version available in Russian.
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. "
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.
Rapid Rehousing Domestic Violence Toolkit
This toolkit is made up of articles and recorded trainings on rapid rehousing and what has worked for programs across the nation.
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.
Sexual Violence & Individuals Who Identify as LGBTQ Information Packet
Sexual violence & individuals who identify as LGBTQ is an information packet containing nearly a dozen resources focused on serving, engaging, and collaborating with individuals and communities who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning (LGBTQ). The packet contains resources to support counselors, advocates, preventionists, technical assistance providers, and allied professionals committed to affirming all individuals and communities. The goals of this packet it to provide resources that will both strengthen work already being done, as well as assist organizations in discovering a place to begin program development.
Sexual Violence & the Workplace, Information Packet
This information packet provides a series of resources on the impact of sexual violence on work, within the workplace and current research related to this topic. It includes resources specifically for advocates as well as employers. There are 9 individual documents that are part of this list; each must be downloaded separately.
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.
Speak Up, Speak Out: A Toolkit For Reporting on Human Rights Issues (pdf)
Respect for the rights of women and girls worldwide continues to lag behind that for the rights of men. When rights are violated, media can play a vital role in putting a stop to the abuses. This toolkit seeks to help journalists and other content creators learn the basics of reporting on women’s and other human rights issues. t combines background information on international human rights mechanisms; guidelines on producing nuanced, objective reporting on rights issues; and practical exercises that walk users step-by-step through the production of a solid human rights story. The toolkit also helps journalists understand how international human rights mechanisms, laws and treaties work.
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.
Technology & Confidentiality Resources Toolkit
This resource was created to provide information concerning confidentiality and privacy to non-profit agencies and advocates who support survivors of domestic and dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
This information packet provides guidance to prevention practitioners at local, state, tribal, territory, and national organizations to work more effectively toward the goal of eliminating sexual violence in their communities. There are six elements to the packet:
Resource Packet: Intro
Qualities and Abilities of Effective and Confident Prevention Practitioners
Core competencies for sexual violence prevention practitioners
Strategies for integrating prevention into organizational operations
Guidance for hiring, training, and supporting community prevention practitioners
Sample job description
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."
Trafficking in Persons Report 2011
2011 edition of the US Department of States annual report of the condition of trafficking around the globe. This report outlines the continuing challenges faced regarding human trafficking in all its forms.
This guide is intended to give tribal legislators a brief overview of legal issues that impact the equal treatment of Two Spirit or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals. The guide identifies areas in which existing laws may discriminate against LGBT individuals and provides sample resolution and code language for tribal lawmakers to consider adopting to maximize LGBT equality within their communities.
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