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Faith-based Responses

Practical Recommendations for the Church's Response to Sexual Assault

These recommendations for Faith Communities include information on how to help victims, perpetrations and congregations.
 
Practical Recommendations for the Church's Response to Sexual Assault

James Evinger's Bibliography on Clergy Ethics

The phenomenon of sexual abuse as committed by persons in fiduciary relationships is widespread among helping professions. This bibliography is oriented to several specific contexts in which this occurs. The first is the religious community, particularly Christian churches, and particularly in the U.S.A. This is the setting of occurrence that I best know and understand. The second context is the role of clergy, a religious vocation and culture to which I belong. While the preponderance of sources cited in this bibliography reflects those two settings, the intent is to be as comprehensive as possible about sexual boundary violations within the religious community. While the bibliography focuses on the position and role of clergy, the concept of sexual boundary violation by one in a religious role is applied here to include other positions that also involve fiduciary trust and power derived from a sanctioning religious community, e.g. a missionary, youth worker, or woman religious.
 
James Evinger's Bibliography on Clergy Ethics

Churches Responding to Sexual Assault: Opportunities for Faithful Collaboration

GNESA presents strategies for faith communities to respond to sexual violence in this one page handout.
 
Churches Responding to Sexual Assault: Opportunities for Faithful Collaboration

Bibliography of Sexual and Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community

This resource is a publication of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse. In addition to providing a list of organizations working on this issue, it also lists the following types of resources: Periodicals, Books, Journal Articles, Newspaper Articles, Newsletter Articles, and Directories.
 
Bibliography of Sexual and Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community

Balancing Acts: Keeping Children Safe in Congregations

This manual provides information and suggestions for congregational leaders around the issue of sex offenders in their religious community. The manual focuses on prevention through education, awareness raising, and policy development.
 
Balancing Acts: Keeping Children Safe in Congregations

Violence Against Women and the Role of Religion

This VAWnet Applied Research paper provides an overview of some of the basic issues and questions that confront religiously identified women who have experienced abuse. The document focuses on three of the major religions in the U.S.: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. It outlines strategies for clergy and secular domestic violence advocates to reach out to one another in order to find and develop the resources needed to help domestic violence victims.
Violence Against Women and the Role of Religion

Recommendations to Prevent Sexual Violence in Oregon: A Plan of Action

This plan was developed to prioritize prevention efforts in the state of Oregon and to "identify innovative, evidence-based, comprehensive sexual assault prevention initiatives" and offer directions to build upon these efforts.

Recommendations to Prevent Sexual Violence in Oregon: A Plan of Action