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Updated 2013
This resource provides information on needed steps to forming a domestic violence ministry, background reading, tips related to incoming calls to the Parish and how to keep track of calls, among others.
Authors: Family Ministries Archdiocese of Chicago
Updated 2013
This manual covers many topics including children’s exposure to violence and teen dating violence.
Authors: Family Ministries Archdiocese of Chicago
September 2012
This workbook provides a framework for coalition leadership and staff to discuss, identify and operationalize changes intended to integrate prevention into their organization.
Authors: Work Group for Community Health and Development, University of Kansas
September 2012
This inventory is a tool for coalitions and agencies to use in identifying potential changes to consider when developing an action plan for building organizational capacity for primary prevention.
Authors: Work Group for Community Health and Development, University of Kansas
September 2012
This resource offers lessons from five DELTA PREP-funded coalitions who agreed to share experiences and insights about their prevention capacity building efforts by participating in day-long site visits where board and staff members, member programs, and external partners engaged in intensive interviews.
Authors: DELTA PREP Project
July 10, 2012
The President of the Texas Council on Family Violence describes the coalition’s experience of participating in the DELTA PREP project, describing its value in helping to build a strong foundation on which to build successful prevention programming.
Authors: Gloria Terry
April 2012
This guide is designed as a resource for peer supporters in behavioral health or other settings who want to learn how to integrate trauma-informed principles into their relationships with the women they support or into the peer support groups of which they are members.
Authors: Andrea Blanch, Beth Filson, and Darby Penney
March 2012
When the agency fully embraces primary prevention, the work becomes part of the organizational culture, existing in all departments, volunteers, board members, and administrators.
Authors: Missouri Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Updated 2012
This guidebook gives step-by-step instructions for organizations to create meaningful internship programs and apprenticeships. Includes a planning guide, instructions for implementation, best practices, evaluation forms, and more.
Authors: Campus Philly
2012
This document describes the goals, strategies, and outcomes of the 19 state domestic violence coalitions funded by the CDC Foundation over a 3-year period to build organizational, state and community capacity for IPV primary prevention initiatives, practices, and programs
Authors: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the CDC Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation