Fortunately, efforts to combat domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking in the U.S. Territories have increased over the last few years. The development of formal coalitions on domestic violence and sexual assault in order to improve service coordination has made a great impact in the communities of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Service providers are now working in collaboration with communities who are standing against violence against women.
- Who and what are these resources for?
- What will I learn from these materials?
- What can I find in these materials
- Key Resources
- Territories Information
- Related Links
Who and what are these resources for?
These materials can be useful for domestic violence and sexual assault advocates, community leaders, service providers, law enforcement, and the justice system to increase their effectiveness in combating domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. This practical tool can help you in the development of trainings and programs on domestic violence, sexual assault, and community engagement, among others.
What will I learn from these materials?
These resources can:- Improve services to survivors of violence and their children
- Raise public awareness about the issue of family violence
- Establish a family violence response system in your health care facility
- Make services more sensitive to culture and language
- Engage the community on violence against women, including men
- Improve your organizational management
What can I find in these materials?
- Links to downloadable materials with strategies to address violence against women in various settings with a small description.
- Contact information for domestic and sexual assault coalitions in the U.S. Territories.
- Links to organizations working on violence against women.
Disclaimer: We offer this list of resources as a reference and their content do not represent views of the Family Violence Prevention Fund.
Child Welfare
| Accountability And Connection With Abusive Men: A New Child Protection Response To Increasing Family Safety Seeks to remedy the child welfare system's excessive focus on mothers in cases where domestic violence is occurring, and to end the pervasive confusion and uncertainty about how to handle these cases. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Activists Dialogues: How Domestic Violence And Child Welfare Impact Women Of Color And Their Communities Activist Dialogues focuses on stimulating, informing and transforming conversations in order to create positive social change, respond to and prevent family violence. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Advocacy Matters: Helping Mothers And Their Children Involved With The Child Protection System For domestic violence advocates working with child protection and juvenile court systems. It's purpose is to underscore the importance of the advocates work, provide tips for how to improve practice in this area, and inspire them to better understand women’s situations and help them be safe and self-sufficient. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Beyond Observation: Considerations For Advancing Domestic Violence Practice In Supervised Visitation Describes interventions that go beyond observation in the supervised visitation setting in the context of domestic violence. The intended audience includes the staff of visitation centers, clinicians, lawyers, judges, domestic violence advocates, and men's non-violence programs. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Confidentiality And Information Sharing Issues For domestic violence advocates working with child protection and juvenile court systems. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Family Team Conferences In Domestic Violence Cases: Guidelines For Practice The guidelines are designed to provide useful information for trained family team conferences (FTC) facilitators and FTC participants, including domestic violence advocates, batterer intervention staff, other community based service providers, and extended family members. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Steps Toward Safety: Improving Systemic And Community Responses For Families Experiencing Domestic Violence Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Supervised Visitation: Information For Mothers This Guide is for mothers who have experienced abuse and whose children are in supervised visitation programs. It provides basic information about how supervised visitation programs work and how mothers can prepare themselves and their children for the experience. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
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Community Engagement
| Organizing a Community-Based Response to Domestic Violence - The Filipino Experience, Edited by Leni Marin (FVPF) and Blandina Lansang-de Mesa Produced by the Family Violence Prevention Fund in collaboration with the Asian Women's Shelter and the Filipina Advisory Committee on Domestic Violence. This publication documents how the Filipino community - women and men - came together to learn and participate in shaping community-based strategies to address domestic violence. Email: Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Model Protocol on Working with Friends and Family of Domestic Violence Victims (2004) This protocol includes examples of programs that can engage friends and families in dealing with ending domestic violence. Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence |
| Breaking The Silence: A Training Manual For Activists, Counselors And Organizers (2003) The manual provides essential details on how to start organizing and maintaining a group of activists and counselors, includes information on domestic violence, how to support a victim/survivor, and rights for immigrant women under VAWA. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Building The Rhythm Of Change: Developing Leadership And Improving Services Within The Battered Rural Immigrant Women’s Community Includes information on leadership skills and how to form a community based women’s group and improve services. It includes planning guides, sample agendas, workshops and exercises. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Community Engagement Continuum: Outreach, Mobilization, Organizing And Accountability To Address Violence Against Women In Asian And Pacific Islander Communities (2005) Manual on the experiences and recommendations in involving the community on family violence. Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence. |
| Domestic Violence Awareness: Action For Social Change (2005) Working within Our Own Communities," comprised to date of contributions from advocates in Asian and Pacific Islander, Native and older adult communities. National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women |
| Innovative Strategies To Address Domestic Violence In Asian And Pacific Islander Communities: Emerging Themes, Models And Interventions Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence |
| Leadership Development For Leaders (2007) Detailed manual on formation and education of leaders to work in the community, including organizing workshops on different topics. Casa de Esperanza |
| Leading To Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook For Women (2001) The Leading to Choices manual is used to train diverse groups of women and girls in the practice of inclusive, participatory, and horizontal leadership. Women's Learning Partnership |
| Preventing Family Violence: Community Engagement Makes The Difference Detailed information on the framework to engage the community and strategies. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Preventing Family Violence: Lessons From The Community Engagement Initiatives Lessons learned from community engagement initiatives. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Preventing Intimate Partner Violence And Sexual Violence In Racial/Ethnic Minority Communities (2008) Results on work and intervention strategies in racial/ethnic minority communities. Collaboration initiatives, training, community organizing, leadership and work in the health care setting. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| Principles Of Community Engagement (1997) Summary of principles to engage the community. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Practice Program Office |
| Steps Toward Safety: Improving Systemic and Community Responses For Families Experiencing Domestic Violence It provides a portrait of a quiet crisis in the 1980s and 1990s as well as discussions among stakeholders, increasingly robust research, templates from new programs, and dissemination of information that has contributed to a new framework for aiding abused families. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Thinking Outside The Box: Creative Action For Social Change Presentation with creative ideas of action to achieve social changes in the community and its services. Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs |
| Toolkit To End Violence Against Women By The National Advisory Council On Violence Against Women Each Toolkit chapter focuses on a particular audience or environment and includes recommendations for strengthening prevention efforts and improving services and advocacy for victims. National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women |
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Cultural Considerations
| (Un) Heard Voices: Domestic Violence In The Asian American Community Based on the results of a focus group with Asian immigrant women and Asian American women from different backgrounds. The report includes major recommendations to service providers. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Culture Handbook This handbook is designed to be used by advocates and professionals who work with those who are victims of domestic and sexual violence. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Gender Violence And Cultures Of Patriarchy: Proceedings From The National Summit On Domestic Violence In Asian And Pacific Islander Communities, (2002) Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence |
| Gender Violence In Asian & Pacific Islander Communities, Perspectives & Strategies Includes information on Asian Pacific Islander Identities and Ethnicities, Domestic Violence Against API women, community engagement and outreach. Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence |
| Raising Our Voices: Queer Asian Women’s Response To Relationship Violence Based on the results of a focus group with Asian immigrant women and Asian American women from different backgrounds. The report includes major recommendations to service providers. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Working with Battered Immigrant Women: A Handbook to Make Services Accessible (1995) This handbook includes explanation of the options for battered immigrant women. This handbook also includes first-person experiences with domestic violence and information on how immigration status can be used as a tool of domestic violence. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
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Fact Sheets
- Facts on Domestic Violence
- Children and Domestic Violence
- Guns and Domestic Violence
- Health Care and Domestic Violence
- Housing and Domestic Violence
- Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence
- International Gender-Based Violence
- IPV and Healthy People 2010 Goals Fact Sheet
- The Military and Domestic Violence
- Preventing Violence Against Women & Children
- Reproductive Health and Violence
- Teenagers and Domestic Violence
- The Workplace and Domestic Violence
- Human Trafficking Fact Sheet, by DHHS
- Understanding Sexual Violence Fact Sheet, by CDC
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Healthcare
| Consensus Guidelines On Domestic Violence: General Designed to assist health care providers from multiple settings and in various professional disciplines in addressing domestic violence victimization. Includes assessment, documentation, intervention, and referral information. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Health Safety Cards Leave these safety cards in the waiting room, exam room, or restrooms and let patients know how to keep themselves safe. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Posters: Health Care and Domestic Violence Most posters provide a small area of white space where a local domestic violence hotline phone number, hospital contact, or other relevant information may be added. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Sexual Violence Prevention: Beginning the Dialogue Identifies concepts and strategies that may be used as a foundation for planning, implementing, and evaluating sexual violence prevention activities. Center for Disease Control and Prevention |
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Human Trafficking
| Collaborating To Help Trafficking Survivors: Emerging Issues And Practice Pointers (2007) For those committed to assisting trafficking survivors, especially sexual assault and domestic violence advocates and their allies. This manual examines issues and promising practices that have emerged during the first six years since the Trafficking Victims Protections Act was enacted. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Turning Pain Into Power: Trafficking Survivor’s Perspectives On Early Intervention Strategies (2005) The report is intended to serve as resource for health care professionals and advocates for trafficking survivors. It summarizes data that emerged from interviews with 21 victims of trafficking. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Understanding and Improving Law Enforcement Responses to Human Trafficking (executive summary) (2008) Northeastern University Institute on Race and Justice |
| Meeting The Legal Needs Of Human Trafficking Victims: An Introduction For Domestic Violence Attorney’s & Advocates (2008) American Bar Association |
| Meeting the Legal Needs on Child Victims of Trafficking (2008) American Bar Association |
| Domestic & Sexual Violence Advocate Handbook on Human Trafficking, 2nd Edition (2008) A handbook designed to aid domestic and sexual violence advocates in working with victims of trafficking and in better understanding the issues involved with trafficking. Contents include basic information and definitions, an overview of benefits available to victims of trafficking, relevant laws, tips and questions to consider when working with victims, a review of the role of domestic violence centers in responding to the issue, and additional resources and tips for advocacy. Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence |
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Judicial & Law Enforcement Response
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Military Response
| The Military Response To Victims Of Domestic Violence Battered Women's Justice Project |
| Understanding The Military Response To Domestic Violence It is designed to assist civilian advocates who are working with military victims of domestic violence -- both active duty victims and partners of active duty service members. It will help you respond to the uniquely challenging needs of this population of survivors. Battered Women's Justice Project |
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Program Management
| Form for Evaluating Police Response to Rape and Sexual Assault Designed for use by victims of rape and sexual assault, by advocates, and by law enforcement. Or it can be used as a means to provide feedback to your police department and your communities on how police response to rape and sexual assault can be improved. Women’s Justice Center |
| Measuring Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Perpetration: A Compendium of Assessment Tools (pdf) (2004) This compendium provides researchers and prevention specialists with a set of assessment tools with demonstrated reliability and validity for measuring the self-reported incidence and prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence victimization and perpetration. The information is presented to help researchers and practitioners make informed decisions when choosing scales to use in their work. |
| Non Profit Management - Information And Resources Selected websites for non-profits, including governance, management, leadership, staff development and organizational capacity, technology and volunteer management. National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women |
| Outcome Measures for Sexual Assault Services in Texas Sample forms used to evaluate sexual assault services, including data collection forms and volunteer evaluations. Texas Council Against Sexual Assault |
| Program Evaluation Various documents on tools and strategies for evaluating programs. National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women |
| Resources To Support The Work Of Local, State, And National Domestic Violence Program Staff Non-profit management, personnel supervision and staff development, coalition-building, program development, and program evaluation. National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women |
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Public Policy
| Approaches To Public Policy & Systems Advocacy On Domestic Violence Information on various ways to engage in public policy and system advocacy to further the goal of ending violence against women and girls. National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) |
| Approaches To Public Policy & Systems Advocacy On Sexual Violence Information on various ways to engage public policy and systems advocacy to further the goal of eliminating sexual violence. National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women National Sexual Violence Resource Center |
| Building Comprehensive Solutions To Domestic Violence Introduction to Policy Advocacy and analysis, improving how the system responds to battered women. National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) |
| Current Public Policy Recommendations And Issues Family Violence Prevention Fund |
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Public Education & The Media
| Effective Outreach Through The Media (2004) This is a guide for those working in agencies that serve victims of sexual assault on how to effectively utilize the media. Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault |
| Media Relations Tools Examples of press release, media alert, editorial opinion (op/ed) piece and domestic violence awareness month proclamation. Texas Council on Family Violence |
| Reaching The General Public Public Education Campaigns. Useful information, samples, and instruction for adapting the campaign and getting the PSAs on air in your community. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
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Sexual Assault
| A National Protocol For Sexual Medical Forensic Examinations, Adults/Adolescents (9/2004) Protocol contains detailed guidelines for criminal justice and health care practitioners in responding to the immediate needs of sexual assault victims. U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women |
| Beyond The Criminal Justice System: Using The Law To Help Restore The Lives Of Sexual Assault Victims: A Practical Guide For Attorneys And Advocates This manual is a practical guide that includes concrete lessons about how to conduct an effective intake, how to spot important legal issues, and how best to respond to sexual assault victims’ legal needs. Victim Rights Law Center |
| Engaging Bystanders In Sexual Violence Prevention This book presents a compelling orientation to the importance of engaging bystanders in sexual violence prevention. National Sexual Violence Resource Center 877-739-3895 |
| Global Perspectives On Sexual Violence: Findings From The World Report On Violence And Health (2004) This report summarizes the sexual violence information found in the World Report on Violence and Health from the World Health Organization. It looks at prevalence and risk factors of sexual violence, as well as promising sexual prevention approaches from around the world. National Sexual Violence Resource Center |
| Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, Research & Advocacy Digest, Vol. 9, No. 2 (January 2007). Contains several articles examining intimate partner sexual violence as an issue that combines domestic violence with sexual assault and therefore requires collaborative prevention and service provision efforts. Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs |
| Marital Rape: New Research And Directions Raquel Kennedy Bergen with contributions from Elizabeth Barnhill (February 2006). |
| Preventing Pregnancy From Sexual Assault: Four Action Strategies To Improve Hospital Policies On Provision Of Emergency Contraception (2003) This toolkit provides facts about emergency contraception for rape survivors, tools and strategies to assess the need for increased access, and four strategies to increase access. Samples survivor stories and additional resources are also included. National Sexual Violence Resource Center, Education Fund of Family Planning Advocates of NYS and Clara Bell Duval Reproductive Freedom Project of the ACLU of Pennsylvania |
| Report On The National Needs Assessment Of Sexual Assault Response Teams (2006) This report includes findings from a national needs assessment that was conducted in 2005. National Sexual Violence Resource Center |
| Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Implementing SANE Programs in Rural Communities: The West Virginia Regional Mobile SANE Project, Office for Victims of Crime (June 2008). This guide was developed by the Office for Victims of Crime, a component of the U.S. Department of Justice, to help rural communities establish SANE programs. |
| Sexual Violence And HIV: A Technical Assistance Guide For Victim Service Providers (2006) This guide provides information on the prevalence of sexual violence and HIV, types of available HIV testing and treatment, benefits and risks of such testing and treatment, victims’ possible fears surrounding HIV, sexual offender testing, and steps victim service professionals can take to meet the needs of sexual violence victims. National Sexual Violence Resource Center |
| Sexual Violence And The Spectrum Of Prevention: Towards A Community Solution (2006) Provides advocates, practitioners and educators with a guide for developing a comprehensive community approach to the primary prevention of sexual violence. National Sexual Violence Resource Center |
| Sexual Violence In Communities Of Color By The Women Of Color Network (2006) This "Facts & Stats Collection" paper highlights specific issues and distinguishing dynamics that confront different women of color, including African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American/Alaskan Indian women. Women of Color Network |
| Sexual Violence In Disasters: A Planning Guide For Prevention And Response (2008) Information about sexual violence and disasters that will help communities to understand the connection and develop better disaster responses. (This is a large document and may take time to load). Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault (LaFASA) & National Sexual Violence Resource Center |
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Territories Information
| Application of Protection Remedies For Victims of Domestic Abuse, Human Trafficking, and Crime Under U.S. Law To Persons Physically Present in the U.S. Territories This paper gives an overview of the current status of applicability of immigration relief for victims of domestic abuse, crime, and trafficking in persons under the Violence against Women Act (VAWA) for spouses and children of abusive U.S. citizens and permanent residents that apply to immigrants in the United States Territories, and make proposals regarding the implementation of the listed forms of protected relief in those regions. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
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Work With Immigrants
| Power and Control Tactics Used Against Immigrant Women Document describes some of the ways immigrant women are abused. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Questions & Answers for Immigrant and Refugee Women Brochures contain general information about the rights and options for immigrant women and is available in seven languages. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Working with Battered Immigrant Women (English) This handbook is an essential resource for advocates and volunteers at shelters, legal assistance programs, and others seeking to improve services to battered immigrant women. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| (Un) Heard Voices: Domestic Violence in the Asian American Community (Un) Heard Voices is based on the results of a focus group with Asian immigrant women and Asian American women from different backgrounds. The report includes major recommendations to service providers and the Appendix Section includes national listing of organizations devoted to Asian battered women. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Raising Our Voices: Queer Asian Women's Response to Relationship Violence Raising Our Voices is based on the results of a focus group with Asian immigrant women and Asian American women from different backgrounds. The report includes major recommendations to service providers and the Appendix Section includes national listing of organizations devoted to Asian battered women. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
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Work With Men
| Beyond Observation: Considerations For Advancing Domestic Violence Practice In Supervised Visitation Practice Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Breaking The Cycle: Fathering After Violence Curriculum Guidelines and Tools for Batterer Intervention Programs. Offers information, exercises and more to help batterer intervention programs begin these essential conversations. Tested by the Simmons School of Social Work, it includes. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Conversations With Mothers Of Color Who Have Experienced Domestic Violence, About Working With Men This report addresses the perspectives and voices of women of color who have been abused by a partner and respond to the question of working with men to end domestic violence. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Fathering After Violence: Working With Abusive Fathers In Supervised Visitation This guide is intended to assist the grantees of the Safe Havens: Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Grant Program (Supervised Visitation Program or SVP) that want to enhance the safety and well-being of women and children by working more deliberately with abusive fathers. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Something My Father Would Do- Overcoming Legacies Of Family Violence (DVD) This fifteen-minute documentary shows the stories of three men who grew up with abusive fathers and had to grapple with their own choices as intimate partners and fathers. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| Toolkit for Working with Me and Boys Comprehensive tool kit designed to help you 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. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
| You Are A Role Model To Your Children. Is There Anything You’d Like To Change? Your Kids Make Memories Everyday. It’s Not Too Late to Change How They Remember You (Posters) Fathering After Violence (FAV) is a national initiative developed by the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) and its partners to enhance the safety and well-being of women and children by motivating men to renounce their violence and become better fathers (or father figures) and more supportive parenting partners. Family Violence Prevention Fund |
Territories Coalitions Contact Information
| American Samoa Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence Attention: Faaalu (Alu) Iuli, E-mail: fainuu6@yahoo.com |
| Guam Coalition Against Sexual and Family Violence Attention: Consuelo Delambaca, Phone: (671) 479-2277, For assistance contact Victims Advocates Reaching Out (VARO) Hotline: (671) 477-5552, E-mail: coalition@teleguam.net |
| Northern Marianas Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence Attention: Maisie Tenorio, For assistance contact the Victims Hotline (670) 234-5100 E-mail: mbtenorio@gmail.com |
| Puerto Rico Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coordinadora Paz Para La Mujer Phone: 787-281-7579, Email: pazmujer@prtc.net |
| Virgin Islands Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Council Website: www.wcstx.com Email: wcscstx@attglobal.net |
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Organizations Working on Violence Against Women
- American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence
- Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence
- ASISTA, Immigration Technical Assistance Project
- Battered Women’s Justice Project (Criminal, Civil and Defense)
- Dating Violence Resource Center
- Family Violence Prevention Fund
- Freedom Network USA
- Legal Momentum, Immigrant Women Program
- Legal Resource Center on Violence Against Women
- Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MNCASA)
- National Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women
- National Center for Victims of Crime
- National Clearinghouse on Abuse Later in Life
- National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
- National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
- National Domestic Violence Hotline
- National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence
- National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)
- National Online Resource Center on Domestic Violence
- National Sexual Assault Online Hotline
- National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
- National Trafficking Resource Center
- National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
- Office on Violence Against Women
- Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network
- Stalking Resource Center
- United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
- Violence Against Women Resources
We would like to hear from you and receive your feedback. Please send your comments to the Family Violence Prevention Fund e-mail: immigration@endabuse.org
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