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."
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.
This website offers a catalogue of educational videos addressing various issues faced by women and girls in today's society.
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.
Case-Based Teaching Modules on Interpersonal Violence
The SAEM Public Health and Education Task Force developed four Case-based modules for resident instruction about violence throughout the life cycle. The package's overall goal is to enable the learner to gain a practical understanding of interpersonal violence throughout the life cycle (child abuse, youth violence, domestic abuse and elder abuse), acquire knowledge to recognize its clinical manifestations, develop skills for appropriate and sensitive clinical intervention and management of interpersonal violence patients, and recognize the role that emergency physicians can play in advocacy and prevention. Each module contains an instructor's manual and slide sets.
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.
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
A tool kit on caring for children exposed to domestic violence that is intended to help trainers of resource families (foster parents and kinship care givers). The toolkit 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.
Deana's Fund: Acting to Prevent Violence
Organization develops and produces comprehensive educational theater programs on relationship violence for grades K-12, colleges, workplaces, and communities.
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."
This online tutorial was developed specifically for human services professionals in the aging field. In addition to chapters on the dynamics of domestic violence, overcoming rural barriers, and utilizing community resources, it contains information specific to the additional barriers to leaving an abusive relationship faced by elders as well as the impact of abuse on nutritional outcomes. The heart of the manual teaches professionals to spot the signs of abuse, how to ask a potential victim about abuse, and how to refer victims to the proper agencies for services.
Domestic Violence and Policing Presentation
Posts links to two Powerpoint presentations that are normally presented during the "Taking it to the Streets" programs which are designed to provide education about domestic violence. Also includes informational handouts including Domestic Violence is Community Problem, Practical Overview for Law Enforcement Officers, WI Statutes to Consider in Domestic Abuse Cases, WI Statutes Pertaining to Domestic Violence, Appleton Police Domestic Abuse Policy, and Appleton Police Domestic Abuse Incident Worksheet.
Domestic Violence Homicide: The Children Left Behind (pdf)
This is a link to an audio presentation given by the author regarding her research findings from interviews with adults who lost their parent(s) as children due to fatal acts of domestic violence. A powerpoint presentation is also available on this link that addresses the points discussed in her lecture.
All posters carry the National Domestic Violence Hotline telephone number. There is a space on each poster for local programs to put their own phone numbers. You can order non-customized or customized posters.
Domestic Violence Prevention Posters
These downloadable images offer prevention strategies related to parenting, violence against women and domestic violence.
Domestic Violence: A Competency-Based Training Manual for Animal Abuse Investigators
This online tutorial was developed specifically for those who work in the field of animal services. In addition to chapters on the dynamics of domestic violence, overcoming rural barriers, and utilizing community resources, it contains information specific to the effects of domestic violence on animals as both victims and perpetrators. The heart of the manual teaches professionals to spot the signs of abuse, how to ask a potential victim about abuse, and how to refer victims to the proper agencies for services.
Domestic Violence: A Competency-Based Training Manual for Community Mental Health Center Staff
This online tutorial was developed to help community mental health counselors identify their clients affected by domestic abuse. In addition to chapters on the dynamics of domestic violence, overcoming rural barriers, and utilizing community resources, it contains information specific to the effects of domestic violence on those with mental health problems and important information on the interaction between substance abuse and domestic violence. The heart of the manual teaches professionals to spot the signs of abuse, how to ask a potential victim about abuse, and how to assist victims with special services.
Domestic Violence: A Competency-Based Training Manual for WIC and Other Nutrition Staff
This online tutorial was developed specifically for human services professionals in the field of nutrition and health. In addition to chapters on the dynamics of domestic violence, overcoming rural barriers, and utilizing community resources, it contains information specific to the problems and nutritional needs of pregnant women and young children. The heart of the manual teaches professionals how to spot victims, how to broach the subject of abuse, and how to refer them to needed services.
DV101: The Dynamics of Domestic Violence
This module will highlight the complicated dynamics of domestic violence. WIC and other health/nutrition program staff will learn the function of domestic violence and the many types of abuse suffered by victims.
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.
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.
"A podcast for the study that examined several behavioral mechanisms that link gender-based violence (GBV) to STD among detained, sexually active adolescent girls. GBV was related to chlamydia directly and indirectly through condom failures and through having sexual intercourse while high on drugs and/or alcohol. The study found that sexual risk reduction programs may benefit this population by addressing the role of GBV and its association with STD-associated behaviors."
Fanlight Productions has been a leading distributor of educational documentaries on healthcare, mental health, disabilities, aging, and related violence issues.
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Fantastic Fathers: An Experiential, Education and Support Group for Dads
This 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.
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.
Healthyplace: Domestic Abuse Stories
This website offers a place for survivors to share their stories with each other.
Human Rights Coloring Book (pdf)
Coloring book in both English and Spanish and has 32 great pages for kids to color and learn about Human Rights.
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.
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.
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.
"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 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.
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."
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.
Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
"The mission of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) is to support research, education, and access to violence related resources."
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.
"The groundbreaking feature-length documentary that unveils the reality of rape, other forms of sexual violence, and healing in African-American communities."
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.
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.
Religious Involvement and Domestic Violence Podcast
"What is the relationship between religious involvement and intimate partner violence in the US? To explore this question, Dr. Claire Renzetti, editor of Violence Against Women, discusses recent research from Volume 13 Issue 11 with author Dr. Byron Johnson of Baylor University and Barbara Hart, Esq., Director of Law and Policy, Violence Against Women Initiatives at the Muskie School at the University of Southern Maine. "
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.
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.
"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 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.
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 to End Violence Against Women
A web-based resource that will provide the guidance necessary to assist communities in their efforts to end violence against women.
Video Resource List: Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence
List was compiled in December of 2000.
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 assitance, and actions teenagers should take to get help.
When Will Adolescents Tell Someone About Dating Violence Victimization?
"Claire Renzetti, editor of VAW, sits down with Beverly Black to discuss, in a podcast format, her article on violence in teen dating relationships in Volume 14, Issue 7. Also on the panel is Jody Miller from the University of Missouri, St. Louis."