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Resource Library

This Resource Library is affiliated with ICCR and NTCCAW and includes topics that are beneficial to all CCAW programs.

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What we know about victims of sexual assault in rural America
This survey explores the statistics and demographics behind recent sexual assault cases. The data helps professionals and bystanders understand who these victims are and how they respond to being attacked (2018).
Report Bystander Intervention, Bystanders, Sexual Assault, Victims
Victim contact in abusive partner intervention: The importance of collaboration
This document highlights programs with victim contact processes, addresses safety challenges. inherent in this work, and offers considerations and best practices for safe and effective implementation (2020).
Report Advocacy, Collaboration, DV, Victims
Short-term outcomes for users of the National Domestic Violence Hotline & loveisrespect
This report examines the effectiveness of the National Domestic Violence Hotline, as well as Love Is Respect's online resources(2020).
Report Advocacy, Animal Abuse, CCR, Technology
More than just a piece of paper: A toolkit for advocates on firearms & domestic violence during COVID-19
This guide is a result of interviews, focus groups, and working with communications professionals to develop new strategies for engaging people on intimate partner violence and firearms (2021).
Report DV, Weapons
International Association of Chiefs of Police: Intimate partner violence response policy & training content guidelines
This IACP training guide offers recommendations for law enforcement's response to intimate partner violence, and how to make arrest decisions on-scene (Uploaded 2020).
Report CCR, Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Sexual Assault
Human trafficking lurks in rural areas
This article examines human trafficking in rural America, providing clues for detection as well as plans of action (2018).
Report Human Trafficking, Rural
Facts & stats report, updated & expanded 2020: Domestic violence in Asian & Pacific Islander homes
This report raises awareness about the experiences of Asian & Pacific Islander survivors of domestic violence and emphasizes the need for socio-culturally effective prevention and intervention(2020).
Report CCR, Family Justice Center, Stalking
Compliance monitoring in domestic violence cases: A guide for courts
This guide outlines best practices to help courts develop or enhance compliance calendars. It provides examples from jurisdictions across the country who are implementing effective compliance calendars that increase defendant and respondent accountability and victim safety (2019).
Report DV, Systemic Change
Committed to Safety for ALL Survivors: Guidance for Domestic Violence Programs on Supporting Survivors Who Use Substances
"The goal of this guide is to assist programs and advocates in supporting survivors who use substances by providing practical strategies embedded within an accessible, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed approach (2020)."
Report Advocacy, Animal Abuse, Immigration Awareness Month
Between compassion & accountability: Guidelines for faith leaders responding to people who abuse intimate partners
This guide discusses domestic violence within faith communities and how leaders can effectively support victims and respond to perpetrators (2020).
Report CCR, Expert Witnesses
Advocate Guide to Lease Termination
This TCFV guide serves to assist advocates in supporting survivors of family violence to terminate their residential lease effectively(2020).
Report Advocacy, Animal Abuse
Psychological impact of stalking on male & female health care professional victims of stalking & domestic violence
This paper investigates stalking experiences of health care professionals who were also victims of domestic violence (2018).
Report DV, Medical, Stalking, Victims
LGBTQ issues in teen dating violence
This fact sheet reports on the issues faced by LGBTQ+ individuals in teen dating violence relationships (Uploaded 2018).
Report DV, LGBTQ+, Teen Dating Violence
Intimate partner violence in urban, rural, & remote areas: An investigation of offense severity & risk factors
Although this study primarily takes place in Sweden, it compares the severity of IPV and the relationship between risk factors for IPV and overall risk judgments of future IPV in urban, rural, and remote areas (2018).
Report DV, Offenders, Risk Assessment/LAP, Rural
Differentiating among attempted, completed, & multiple nonfatal strangulation in women experiencing intimate partner violence
This data examines the prevalence and correlates of nonfatal strangulation among female survivors of IPV (2018).
Report Strangulation, Victims
Countering Confusion about the Duluth Model
This report analyzes batterer treatment models, specifically the Duluth Model, which has received intense criticism over the years.
Report Children, Human Trafficking, Offender Accountability
A stalker's paradise: How intimate partner abusers exploit technology
This article details how abusers in IPV contexts use technology to threaten, intimidate, monitor, harass, or harm their victims (2018).
Report Offenders, Stalking, Technology
A Coordinated Community Response to Domestic Violence
This paper chronicles the Duluth Project, which is a pioneer in coordinated community responses to domestic violence and sexual assault. The Duluth Project is a system of networks, agreements, and applied principles created by the local shelter movement, criminal justice agencies, and human services programs developed in northern Minnesota (January 1997).
Report Advocacy, Child Abuse Awareness Month, Children, Elder Abuse, Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Immigration Awareness Month, Military, Prosecution, Technology