"Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America" Film Website
This is a website connected to Peter Cohn's film, "Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America", that provides a wealth of information, resources, current news, and over 40 video interview excerpts related to domestic violence.
A Case Study: Creating a Campus Violence Prevention Program
Effective violence prevention efforts require a comprehensive, coordinated set of programs, policies, and services that are research-based and adapted to local circumstances. This webinar recording reviews the principles and process of beginning a violence prevention program on a college or university campus. PowerPoint Slides and the recording are available on the site. `
MTV's A Thin Line campaign was developed to empower you to identify, respond to, and stop the spread of digital abuse in your life and amongst your peers. The campaign is built on the understanding that there's a "thin line" between what may begin as a harmless joke and something that could end up having a serious impact on you or someone else. We know no generation has ever had to deal with this, so we want to partner with you to help figure it out. On-air, online and on your cell, we hope to spark a conversation and deliver information that helps you draw your own digital line
A Way to Justice: Engaging Men for Women's Rights and Gender Transformation
Across the world, men are joining women to challenge patriarchy, end men’s violence against women and promote gender equality. To capture a sense of this growing movement, Sonke commissioned filmmaker William Nessen to interview leading activists at the MenEngage Africa symposium in October 2009 to create this film.
American Medical Association Violence Prevention Information
Link to section of AMA website that includes information on Preparing your Practice to Address Family Violence, AMA violence-related reports and policies, Youth Violence Prevention Training and Outreach Guide, and other violence and abuse resources.
Amnesty International's Campaign to Stop Violence Against Women Video
This video outlines the current human rights violations, specifically violence against women, that affect women globablly. This video requires RealPlayer.
Battered Mothers Custody Conference Interviews
A youtube video of testimonies from women who have lost custody of their children in cases of child abuse and domestic violence. These testimonies are taken from an annual conference on Battered Mother's Custody in Albany, NY.
Battered Women and Their Children
Battered Women and Their Children is a website devoted to a professional and scholarly examination of the connections between domestic violence (woman abuse) and child maltreatment (child abuse and neglect).
Beyond The Mirror (pdf)
A free e-book filled with poems that shed light on understanding the dynamics of emotional and psychological abuse.
This website offers a catalogue of educational videos addressing various issues faced by women and girls in today's society.
Boys and Men Healing is a documentary about the impact of boyhood child sexual abuse, its devastating effects, and the importance of speaking out for male survivors. The film portrays courageous non-offending men sexually abused as boys, whose arduous healing helped them reclaim their lives and speak out, while taking action toward prevention for other boys.
Breaking the Silence: Kenyatta National Hospital Addresses Gender-Based Violence
"In this short feature, Kenyatta National Hospital staff discuss its Gender-Based Violence Recovery Centre. Victims of gender-based violence also speak out."
This company provides dvd's, bookmarks, pamphlets, and other resources teaching youth about preventing violence and conflict resolution.
Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc.
Cambridge Documentary Films offers films and videos on trauma, domestic violence and rape, along with other important topics. Two films specifically dealing with violence are Defending Our Lives, an academy award-winning documentary on the magnitude and severity of domestic violence in this country, and Strong at the Broken Places: Turning Trauma into Recovery, a film about people devastated by trauma and loss who find common ground on their journeys to recovery -- healing through work for social justice.
Causing Pain: Real Stories of Dating Abuse and Violence (video)
A 30-minute video containing true stories of teens, parents, and professionals who have been in or witnessed abusive relationships. They describe their experiences and insights so that teens and parents can recognize and prevent dating abuse in their own lives or in the lives of their friends.
Cavalcade Productions offers clinical training videos on trauma, dissociation, child abuse, recovered memory, ritual abuse, vicarious traumatization, and incest.
Champions for children: Video gallery
A collection of videos on intervention strategies and roles parliamentarians play in keeping children safe from violence and abuse.
Child Abuse and Safety Web Videos by Marc Klaas
This site offers useful information on child safety in the home and in cyberspace.
Co-Parenting in the Context of Domestic Violence: Digital Storytelling
This resource provides five digital stories that focus on parenting as a perpetrator of domestic violence or parenting with a perpetrator of domestic violence. These stories were created by survivors and past perpetrators during two separate workshops held by MINCAVA in consultation with the Center for Digital Storytelling in October of 2005.
This Mini-Magazine for Parents gives parents and caregivers practical advice on how to talk to kids about respecting women and girls and cultivating healthy relationships. It offers regular features including a Parent2Parent advice column, articles on topics such as violent video games, questions-and-answers with authors and experts, and interviews with parents, teens and women who grew up in violent homes. The launch issue’s web site has supplements including a quiz, advice on taking advantage of teachable moments, and more. Site is also available in Spanish.
Connect: Supporting Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
This training concerns caring for children exposed to domestic violence and is intended to help trainers of resource families (foster parents and kinship care givers). The training includes a curriculum, power point, mini magazines and optional trainings videos.
Coordinated Community Action Model
This is an adaptation of the domestic violence wheel to community-wide action. It has been developed by the Domestic Violence Institute of Michigan and can be ordered in poster format.
Dating Matters: Understanding Teen Dating Violence Prevention
This 60-minute, interactive training is designed to help educators, youth-serving organizations, and others working with teens understand the risk factors and warning signs associated with teen dating violence. Also highlights the importance of promoting healthy relationships.
Deana's Fund: Acting to Prevent Violence
This organization develops and produces comprehensive educational theater programs on relationship violence for grades K-12, colleges, workplaces, and communities.
Diamonds: Stories of Women in The Asia-Pacific Network of People Living with HIV (pdf)
"Diamonds is a compilation of the personal narratives of ten women and one girl who are HIV-positive in the Asia Pacific region. The publication is accompanied by a documentary that focuses on four of these stories."
Producers of award winning videos for students, educators, and group leaders. Committed to helping those who guide young people to make the right choices. Films include "Rape Under the Influence: Sexual Assault on Campus" and "Violence Begins at Home."
The Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the State of Wisconsin have launched a powerful public awareness campaign designed to reach women and men living in violence and provide them with information about resources to help break the cycle of family violence. All posters carry the National Domestic Violence Hotline telephone number. There is also space on each poster for local programs to put their own phone numbers. You can order non-customized or customized posters.
Domestic Violence Webinar Series: Privacy, LGBT & Disability
Free downloadable webinar series on Domestic Violence: Tips and Strategies in Protecting Victim Privacy, Representing LGBT Victims and Representing Victims With Disabilities.
Topics include:
Screening for LGBT Victims of Domestic Violence in Legal Services
Civil Protection Orders for LGBT Victims of Domestic Violence: Tips and Strategies in Representation
Relocation, Identity Protection, and the VAWA Prohibition on Internet Publication of Protection Order Information
Representing Victims with Mental Illness
Representing Victims with Disabilities: Identifying and Working with Evaluators
DVERT Training CD and Lesson Plan
Video clips and lesson plan from the DVERT Training CD, a video-rich program that provides a clear and succinct overview of the principles and practices the DVERT collaboration follows in combating domestic violence.
Dynamics of Domestic Violence Presentation
Dynamics of Domestic Violence Presentation is one of many training resources available from the Domestic Abuse Project. This piece provides you with a slide by slide presentation of why domestic violence happens in our society and what we can do to help.
(93 mins) Jackson Katz, anti-sexist male activist, talks about the need for more men to became involved in the work to end violence against women.
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(76 mins) Dr. Clea McNeely, from the Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence in the Department of Public Health at the University of Tennessee, breaks down the teen years as they relate to the prevention of teen dating violence.
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(38 mins) Brian O'Connor, Director of Communications at Futures Without Violence, discusses some best practices for teen dating violence prevention.
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(44 mins) Elizabeth Reed, Assistant Professor in the Department of Prevention & Community Health at George Washington University, talks about losing the gender in gender-based violence.
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(66 mins) In this panel presentation, facilitated by Kathy Moore from the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence and CALCASA's Chad Sniffen, panelists discuss building intergenerational partnerships for preventing teen dating violence.
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Ending Violence Against Women: A Multimedia Exhibit
This exhibit can be used as both an advocacy and programming tool. It documents UNFPA’s experience in the field supporting projects that address violence against women in its many forms. Designed for both the general public and development practitioners, it documents approaches that can be used to confront this problem on a larger scale.
Engagingmen.net: A Gender Justice Information Networ
ENGAGINGMEN.NET is an information network for people around the world who are interested in engaging boys and men in gender justice, supporting women's empowerment, ending violence against women and the spread of HIV/AIDS, promoting responsible fatherhood, healthy relationships, and more.
Equality Wheel (pdf)
Developed by the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, the equality wheel shows different ways equality is defined in a relationship.
Equality Wheel (Spanish) (pdf)
Developed by the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, the equality wheel shows different ways equality is defined in a relationship. A Spanish format is now available, called Igualidad.
Fanlight Productions has been a leading distributor of educational documentaries on healthcare, mental health, disabilities, aging, and related violence issues.
Video purchasing information as well as information downloads are available on our website.
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Fantastic Fathers: An Experiential, Education and Support Group for Dads
The Fantastic Fathers series was created for men who have used abuse in their relationships to engage and motivate them to participate in the process of change by taking responsibility for their behaviors and to provide a reparative framework in the healing process between children and their fathers.
This video list gives resources for films on domestic violence and violence against women.
From Fear to Freedom: Ending Violence Against Women (Film)
In Women's Learning Partnership's (WLP) film From Fear to Freedom, leading experts and activists from across the globe discuss the root causes of gender-based violence, share strategies to combat it, and provide inspiring accounts of the important milestones already achieved through the international women’s movement.
This video showcases an organization in Pakistan created and run by a rape victim named Mukhtar Mai. She has set up schools, a woman's shelter, crisis lines, and provides legal and medical help to many woman and their children suffering from abuse in Pakistan.
"With digital communication a central part of teens’ lives, the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) launched a new national public service advertising (PSA) campaign to help teens recognize digital dating abuse and take steps to prevent it. It is designed to start a conversation among teens about how controlling behavior and harassment from a boyfriend or girlfriend, online or via cell phone, can turn into abuse."
The following pictures were created by children in the Domestic Abuse Project's Children's Program. All children in this program are child witnesses of violence committed by one adult household member (usually their father, step-father, or mother's boyfriend) against their mother. Each file is rather large (35K-95K) and be prepared to wait as each image loads into your computer.
Global Violence Prevention is an interactive case study about family violence. The site's purpose is to teach individuals in service provision fields to respond effectively to victims and perpetrators by guiding users through an online case study about a family experiencing violence. This site can be used by individuals or groups of students in a classroom setting. The case helps users learn how to respond to the members of the family and work effectively with other professionals in meeting their needs.
Immigrant and Refugee Power and Control Wheel
Throughout the world, women are victims of domestic violence just as there are battered women in the United States. Immigrant and refugee women know that in their countries of origin, women have been tortured with sexual abuse by the army/rebels, kidnapped into prostitution, forced into marriages, killed in honor killings, used for sexual slavery, stoned to death and often experience other gender related abuses. This Immigrant and Refugee Power and Control Wheel is an adaptation of the Duluth Power and Conrol wheel created by attendees Immigrant & Refugee Women Support Group in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Intermedia, Inc Violence Prevention Videos
This group publishes and distributes videos throughout the United States and Canada. They specialize in a variety of social issues including rape/assault awareness, domestic violence, dating violence, and sexual harassment. Their goal is to provide educators with quality, relevant educational materials to help them address social and workplace issues.
Intersections Between Domestic Violence & Childhood Maltreatment - Powerpoint Presentation
This is a collection of powerpoint presentations orginally presented at the October 2004 Intersections Between Domestic Violence & Childhood Maltreatment Conference in Toronto. Sponsored by the Ontario Women's Directorate, these conference materials are helpful to professionals working to address the intersection of violence against women, fatherhood and parenting.
Interview with Amy Jensen, Program Coordinator at UCASA
"In this interview, Ms. Jensen talks about the important role that women have in creating a new culture of violence prevention for girls and young women that is not based solely on risk reduction."
Interview with Arlene Weisz and Beverly Black
"In this interview with Arlene Weisz and Beverly Black, authors of Programs to Reduce Teen Dating Violence and Sexual Assault: Perspectives on What Works (2009), Prevention Connection's David Lee explores the research behind the book and the prevention programming basics that the book describes."
Interview with Ben Atherton-Zeman on Voices of Men
"In this interview, Mr. Atherton-Zeman talks about the development of Voices of Men and the work of engaging men to end men's violence against women in general."
"In this interview with David A. Wolfe, Ph.D., ABPP, Prevention Connection's David Lee explores the research and work behind Dr. Wolfe's recent article, A School-Based Program to Prevent Adolescent Dating Violence: A Cluster Randomized Trial. The article was to determine whether an interactive curriculum that integrates dating violence prevention with lessons on healthy relationships, sexual health, and substance use reduces physical dating violence (PDV)."
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Support Group Guide (pdf)
This is a manual with detailed information on developing and facilitating a psychoeducational support group for survivors of intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV). It also includes information on how to incorporate IPSV topics into more general support groups focused on domestic violence or sexual assault.
Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy: A Guide for Clinicians Screenshow
This screen show is designed as a training tool for clinicians to increase understanding of the important role they can play in identifying, preventing, and reducing intimate partner violence. The screen show also emphasizes the critical window of opportunity that prenatal care provides for the screening and referral of pregnant women.
ItGetsBetterProject.com is a place where young people who are gay, lesbian, bi, or trans can see with their own eyes how love and happiness can be a reality in their future. It’s a place where LGBT adults can share the stories of their lives, and straight allies can add their names in solidarity and help spread our message of hope.
Noted writer and media pundit Dan Savage founded the It Gets Better Project in September 2010 as a unique way for supporters everywhere to tell LGBT Youth that — it gets better.
The NSVRC has created the Just Rural podcast series to share insights and ideas regarding programs, practices and research related to sexual assault in rural areas. The interviewees represent a variety of disciplines, agencies and regions of the country.
Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma
An online resource for professionals and families seeking to learn more about child traumatic stress. CEU's are also provided for free to professionals taking any of their online courses.
For help click on "FAQ's" in the top left hand side of the screen.
Lessons Learned From the Domestic Violence Community
"Effective Interventions in Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy and Practice, known as the Greenbook, was published in 1999 by the Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges in collaboration with other experts. It provides guidelines for child welfare, domestic violence service providers and family courts to work together more effectively to serve families experiencing violence, and served as the foundation for the work of the Greenbook demonstration communities. The new video clips present interviews with domestic violence advocates in the Greenbook demonstration sites about lessons learned in their communities over the six years of the initiative."
Living Proof Podcast Series: Domestic Violence in the Lives of Children (part 1 of 2)
Hear Dr. Jeffrey Edleson, of the University of Minnesota, describes his work and that of his colleagues over the past two decades in their efforts to study, raise awareness of, and change both policies and practices focused on children exposed to domestic violence.
Click HERE to hear part 2 of this interview.
Living Proof Podcast Series: Domestic Violence in the Lives of Children (part 2 of 2)
Hear Dr. Jeffrey Edleson, of the University of Minnesota, describes his work and that of his colleagues over the past two decades in their efforts to study, raise awareness of, and change both policies and practices focused on children exposed to domestic violence.
click HERE to hear part one of this interview.
Transcript of an argument between an abuser and a victim, recorded on a Fisher Price recorder by the 12-year old child witness who told detectives "I knew he would kill her, he told her that he would." Source: Anne O'Dell, formerly of the San Diego PD, now a presenter and consultant on DV issues. This transcript was a collaborative effort by the some of the Victim Advocates in Phoenix, Arizona. The transcript is not word for word, as not everything said on the tape is intelligible. The advocates' characterizations are given in parentheses after many of Mac's comments.
Men Who Murder Their Families: What Research Tells Us
A 90 minute audio symposium featuring three leading experts on the topic of femalicide.
National Center for Victims of Crime Educational Videos on YouTube
The center's award winning educational videos are now available for preview on youtube. Topics include teen victims of crime and communities responding to stalking.
National Stalking Awareness Month Event Broadcast
On Tuesday, January 18th, the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), hosted an event commemorating National Stalking Awareness Month. The event featured distinguished speakers, including Attorney General Eric Holder and Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, as well as Hannah Perryman, a 17 year old who was stalked for five years, and in 2009 reached out to Illinois lawmakers to strengthen state stalking laws. Watch the hour long conference by following the link.
New Day film makers shoot fearless, relentlessly independent documentaries. They win awards, play in major film festivals and have wide influence through US and international broadcast. Search through titles to find films related to violence prevention including:
"Let's Get Real" which gives young people the chance to speak up in their own words about the real issues behind bullying
and
"Power and Control", a comprehensive and timely examination of the shocking persistence of domestic violence in our society.
Remember to check back for new releases and to view the Free Film of the Day.
The web site for the powerful new documentary film No Way Out But One tells the remarkable story of one woman's effort to save her children from a life of abuse.
"The groundbreaking feature-length documentary that unveils the reality of rape, other forms of sexual violence, and healing in African-American communities."
This website is the result of a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of teen dating violence. PAVE (Preventing Abuse and Violence Through Education) the Way Project is designed to promote healthy relationships and empower teens to take a stand against dating violence. PAVE the Way Project serves to teach youth the importance of dating violence awareness and healthy relationships through the use of educational materials. The project’s website includes tips for teens who may find themselves, or a friend, in an unhealthy relationship.
The this Center provides informational films and videos for rental by school and college classes, community groups, etc. Topics include conflict resolution, non-violence, human rights, peace studies, militarism, and more.
Picturing a Life Free of Violence: Media and Communication Strategies to End Violence Against Women
This publication showcases a wealth and variety of media and communications strategies and materials used around the world to end violence against women. A collaboration between UNIFEM and the Media Materials Clearinghouse of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, the publication highlights materials and campaigns, providing descriptions of innovative communications methods for awareness raising. It is an attempt to facilitate information sharing between organizations working to end violence against women, so that strong and effective strategies can be replicated in other contexts.
Podcast: Asset Building Programs for Domestic Violence Survivors, an Interview with Cynthia Sanders
(January 2012) Sheetal Rana discusses the importance of asset building to domestic violence survivors, key themes from the research, and implications for new directions in policy, programs, and practice.
Power and Control Wheel (pdf)
The Power and Control Wheel was developed by battered women in Duluth who had been abused by their male partners and were attending women's education groups sponsored by the women's shelter. The Wheel used in our curriculum for men who have used violence against their female partners. While we recognize that there are women who use violence against men, and that there are men and women in same-sex relationships who use violence, this wheel is meant specifically to illustrate men's abusive behaviors toward women. The Equality Wheel was also developed for use with the same curriculum
Power and Control Wheel (Spanish) (pdf)
The power and control wheel was developed by battered women in Duluth, specifically for men who use violence against their female partners. A Spanish version is now available, called Poder Y Control.
Preventing sexual aggression among college men :
Christine Gidycz, Ph.D., and Alan Berkowitz, Ph.D., discuss their article, "Preventing Sexual Aggression among College Men: An Evaluation of a Social Norms and Bystander Intervention Program," which will appear in the June 2011 edition of the journal Violence Against Women.
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."
Rape Prevention and Risk Reduction, an Interview with Kimberly Lonsway
On this podcast, Jennifer Grove of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center interviews Kimberly Lonsway, lead author on the VAWnet Applied Research paper: Rape Prevention and Risk Reduction: Review of the Research Literature for Practitioners.
Recognizing, Assessing, and Responding to Victims and Perpetrators in the Health Care Setting
"This web-based course on domestic violence (DV) addresses practical issues faced by health care providers in clinical settings. The course includes vignettes which illustrate assessment strategies to use with victims and with perpetrators of DV. "
Respect WORKS!: A Comprehensive Teen Dating Violence Prevention Model Podcast
In this podcast, Prevent Connect‘s David Lee interviews Marjorie Gilberg from Break the Cycle and Sue Thomas from Hazelden Foundation. They discuss “Respect WORKS!,” the new four-part comprehensive model for teen dating violence prevention.
Four elements:
-Teen Dating Violence policies with Model School Policy Toolkit
-Educate youth with the curriculum Safe Dates
-Reinforce the learning with the DVD [Ending Violence]
-Activate youth leadership with Speak. Act. Change
Risk and Resilience in Homeless and Highly Mobile Children (Audio)
Part of the National Children's Study Speakers' Series talks, this talk by Ann Masten in 2010 focuses on the work she has done on competence, risk and resilience in human development- specifically in youth. Her research on resiliency seeks to answer the question of why some homeless and highly mobile families are more resilient than others. Understanding this connection will help guide policies and strategies for encouraging resiliency in at-risk youth and families.
Rwanda: Army and Police Take Action to Fight Violence against Women
"Partnering with UNIFEM, the Rwandan Defence Forces launched a campaign to help and respond to violence against women, drawing on a successful initiative of the Rwandan police that, in 2005, opened a special office to deal with gender-based violence."
In the documentary, filmmaker Angela Shelton, journeys across the United States meeting other Angela Sheltons in an effort to survey women in America. She discovers that 24 out of the 40 Angela Sheltons she spoke to had been raped, beaten or molested (now 28 out of 40). Then the filmmaker meets an Angela Shelton who tracks sexual predators and lives in the same town as the filmmaker's father who molested her and her step siblings for years. The filmmaker's survey of women becomes a journey of self-discovery during which she decides to finally confront her own past and her father - on Father's Day. The Angela Sheltons complete the journey by teaching the filmmaker about forgiveness, faith and the power of the human spirit, no matter what your name is.
Sin by Silence is a documentary film about women victims of domestic violence who have killed their husbands, and are imprisoned as a result. This tool is intended to bring about awareness and engage in community activism to end violence against women. Steps to order materials are provided.
Stalking and Orders of Protection Webinar
Michelle Garcia, Director, Stalking Resource Center, and Marc Guillory, Assistant District Attorney, City and County San Francisco, presented a webinar on Stalking and Orders of Protection through the National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit.
Link takes you directly to webinar powerpoint and audio
Stop Sexual Violence: Listen and Lead
A video interview with various professionals and survivors speaking out on the need to end sexual violence in all its forms.
Storybooks and Videos for Helping Children with Family Violence
This list and these guidelines were compiled by a school social worker and mental health professional in the hope that breaking the shroud of silence surrounding domestic violence will empower victims of all ages, and will prevent future violent relationships.
Telling Amy’s Story is a film that follows the timeline of a domestic violence homicide that occurred on November 8, 2001. It intends to raise awareness around domestic violence and its impacts on individuals, families, and communities. The website provides a nationwide listing of broadcast times and dates as well as information on how to bring the film to a public broadcast station in your state.
"With digital communication a central part of teens’ lives, the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) launched a new national public service advertising (PSA) campaign to help teens recognize digital dating abuse and take steps to prevent it. It is designed to start a conversation among teens about how controlling behavior and harassment from a boyfriend or girlfriend, online or via cell phone, can turn into abuse."
The Big Picture: Macroeconomics, Women and HIV/AIDS
"This documentary argues that economic policy plays an integral role in responding to the needs of women infected with and affected by the HIV and AIDS pandemic. It explores the way in which an enabling environment could be fostered with policy instruments that respond to challenges faced by women, especially those living in poverty. Special attention is paid to women and girls who live in conflict zones."
The Future of Children Online Journal
The Future of Children is an online publication of the Children, Families, and Communities Program of The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The primary purpose of The Future of Children is to promote effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the best available research. Vol. 9 - No. 3 - Winter 1999 is about Domestic Violence and Children and includes articles such as: Domestic Violence and Children: Analysis and Recommendations; Prevalence and Effects of Child Exposure to Domestic Violence; and The Impact of Violence on Children. Jeffrey Edleson, Ph.D. from the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse was the issue Editoral Advisor.
The Intersection of Domestic Violence and Child Victimization
This tutorial covers the disasterous effects witnessing domestic violence can have on the lives of children. The tutorial is comprised of four sections and offers a certificate of completion at the end.
The Responsible Fatherhood Curriculum
The Responsible Fatherhood Curriculum is intended to assist fathers in more effectively fulfilling their roles as parents, partners, and workers. The 20 sessions deal with issues such as male-female relationships, fathers as providers, managing conflict and anger (on and off the job), and race and racism.
The curriculum materials are contained in 21 files in PDF format, each containing the material for one session of the curriculum
A non-profit national survivor network created to give voice and face to survivors of sexual violence, offering a sense of solidarity and possibility to those who have lived through abuse, while raising awareness of how this human rights and public health issue impacts victims, families and communities.
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."
Video Resource List: Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence
List was compiled in December of 2000.
Videocast- Intimate aggression: Understanding sexual coercion
In this podcast, psychologist Chitra Raghavan explains the concepts of "coercive sex" and "sexual assault" as they apply to people who know one another.
Chitra Raghavan, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Videos on Child Abuse and Safety by Marc Klaas
This website offers advice on various topics of children's safety through video format.
Violence on the Job - video or streaming online
This video discusses practical measures for identifying risk factors for violence at work, and taking strategic action to keep employees safe. It is based on extensive NIOSH research, supplemented with information from other authoritative sources.
Violence Posters for the Workplace
These posters are designed for posting in the workplace. For more information about obtaining additional copies of these posters, or to share your feedback about these posters contact: Don Gault, Violence Prevention Manager, St. Paul Ramsey County Department of Public Health, 50 W. Kellogg Boulevard, St. Paul, MN 55102; Phone: (651) 266-2461; E-mail: donald.gault@co.ramsey.mn.us.
WHO has commissioned two series of violence prevention posters, each depicting images relating to various forms of violence. The "Red" series portrays bold close ups of parts of the human body tainted in re, symbolizing the impact of violence on the body and on health in general. The "Explanations" series features victims of violence and the accounts they give to explain away their injuries, touching upon the shame and taboo which surround violence in many cultures.
What You Should Know About Child Abuse (For Children Ages 6-11) (pdf)
This brochure is geared towards children ages 6-11, referencing crime facts about child abuse, descriptions of abuse and abusers, resources for information and assistance, and actions children should take to get help.
What You Should Know About Child Abuse (For Teenagers Ages 12-16) (pdf)
This brochure is geared towards teenagers ages 12-16, referencing crime facts about child abuse, descriptions of abuse, resources for information and assistance, and actions teenagers should take to get help.