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 (new resource)

• Contains an informational video (that is also available in Spanish) as well as fast facts, risk and protective factors, prevention strategies, intimate partner violence, sexual violence and stalking among men, stalking, teen dating violence and various programs and resources

• AMA's Tips to help you ID intimate partner violence via telehealth (new resource)

• 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 modules (new resource)

• Cross-disciplinary training modules for healthcare and social service providers

• USPSTF’s Screening for Family and Intimate Partner Violence (2021)

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force evidence-based recommendation on the efficacy of routine screening for family and intimate partner violence.

• American Family Physician Intimate Partner Violence (2016)

• American Family Physician information on Intimate Partner violence including key recommendations for practice, screen tools, tips for initiating discussion with patients and access to patient information sheets.

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Intimate Partner Violence Screening (new resource)

• Fact sheet and resources

Reports/Publications

• Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States(2003)
  This CDC report presents estimates on the incidence, prevalence, and costs of intimate partner violence.
• Danger Assessment. – link confirmed to be correct
  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 American Academy of Family Physicians, an article of the effect of domestic violence on children including information on prevention and screening as well as national resources and ways to help patients plan for safety

• Evaluating Domestic Violence Programs From the Child Welfare Information Gateway Provides a compilation of evaluation tools and program evaluation reports for domestic violence programs 

• Domestic Violence Evidence Project – Evaluation Manuals & Toolkits (new resource)
• Guides and manuals for domestic violence programs and service providers including approaches for violence prevention programs
• Intimate Partner Violence: Fact Sheet (2015). This CDC fact sheet provides an overview of intimate partner violence.
• Academic Emergency Medicine Evaluation of a screening tool for child sex trafficking among patients with high risk complaints in a pediatric emergency department (new resource)
• Article outlining a screening tool for child sex trafficking in the ED and its evaluation
• American Medical Association Journal of Ethics – Human Trafficking, mental illness, and addiction: Avoiding Diagnostic Overshadowing (new resource)
• 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. AAST prevention committee review on FJCs.

Links to 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 domestic violence from the National Library of Medicine.
• Childhood Violent Trauma Center.
  Provides 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(VAWnet).
  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 Resource Center
  Providers victim resources and training modules on stalking. 

• Stop Abuse for Everyone(SAFE).
  Provides training and resources to serve underserved domestic violence groups, e.g., men, and LGBTQI individuals.