Educational Tools/Resources
- Futures without Violence website
- Extensive repository with links to health safety cards, informational sheets, protocols, assessment tools, fact sheets, and modules including access to free materials for healthcare providers
- CDC’s Intimate Partner Violence Website
- Contains an informational video, fast facts, risk and protective factors, prevention strategies, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, stalking, teen dating violence, and various programs and resources
- AMA's Tips to help you ID intimate partner violence
- Information on screening for violence at home through a telehealth visit, including learning modules, case studies, and ways to assess safety when there is the possibility of compromised privacy
- Initiative to end Family Violence Training
- Cross-disciplinary training modules for healthcare and social service providers
- American Family Physician Intimate Partner Violence (2016)
- American Family Physician's information on Intimate Partner violence, including key recommendations for practice, screen tools, tips for initiating discussion with patients, and access to patient information sheets.
Reports/Publications
- Danger Assessment
- Campbell's tool to assess the risk of homicide with battered women, including a permission of use letter.
- Documenting Domestic Violence: How Health Care Providers Can Help Victims (2001)
- This National Institute of Justice brief outlines how health care providers can improve the admissibility of medical records evidence in a domestic violence case.
- Witnessing Domestic Violence: The Effect on Children
- From the American Academy of Family Physicians, their article highlights the effects of domestic violence on children, prevention and screening methods, national resources, and ways to help patients plan for safety.
- Domestic Violence Evidence Project – Evaluation Strategies for Domestic Violence Programs
- Guide for domestic violence programs and service providers including approaches for violence prevention programs
- Academic Emergency Medicine: Evaluation of a Screening Tool for Child Sex Trafficking Among Patients With High-Risk Chief Complaints in a Pediatric Emergency Department
- Article outlining and evaluating a screening tool for child sex trafficking in the ED
- American Medical Association Journal of Ethics – Human Trafficking, mental illness, and addiction: Avoiding Diagnostic Overshadowing
- The article reviews an ED-based clinical vignette of a trafficked patient with co-occurring disorders. Provides a review of the literature and discussion on responding to these patients
- American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Prevention Committee Review: Family Justice Centers – A Not-So-Novel, But Unknown Gem. Duncan, T, Stewart, R, Joseph, K, Kuhls, D, Dechert, T, Taghavi, S, Bonne, S, Matsushima, K. Trauma Surg. Acute Care Open. 2021 Jun 7;6(1):e000725. Doi:10.1136/tsaco-2021-000725. ecollection 2021.
- A description of Family Justice Centers and the role they play in working with trauma centers to address victims of domestic violence, intimate partner violence, child abuse, and elder abuse.
Other Resources
- American Bar Association (ABA): Commission on Domestic Violence
- Offers online information to assist victims of abuse, including safety planning and how to obtain legal help.
- MEDLINEplus: Domestic Violence.
- Provides information on intimate partner violence from the National Library of Medicine.
- Yale Center for Traumatic Stress and Recovery (YCTSR)
- A resource center for information on the effects of violence exposure on children and programs to address it.
- National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
- Comprehensive source of information and resources on information related to domestic violence.
- National Electronic Network on Violence Against Women
- Provides online resources on domestic violence and sexual assault, an electronic library, links to other sources, and information on finding help for victims.
- Nursing Network on Violence Against Women, Int'l.
- Provides domestic violence assessment tools and links to sites that address issues of violence against women.
- Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Dept. Justice
- Offers information on federal laws, state hotlines, and advocacy groups; the VAW Online Resources link provides research and promising practices on issues such as domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault.
- Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC)
- Contains victim resources and training modules on stalking.
- Stop Abuse for Everyone(SAFE).
- Features training and resources to better serve underserved domestic violence groups, including men, and LGBTQ+ individuals.