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Elder Sexual Assault: Technical Assistance Manual for Pennsylvania’s Sexual Violence Centers

The goal of this technical assistance manual is to allow sexual violence advocates/counselors to become adept in dealing with elder clients. It provides basic information about how to effectively work with elder clients.

Evaluation for Improvement: A Seven-step Empowerment Evaluation Approach for Violence Prevention Organizations

This manual is designed to help violence prevention organizations hire an empowerment evaluator who will assist them in building their evaluation capacity through a learn-by-doing process of evaluating their own strategies. It is for state and local leaders and staff members of organizations, coalitions, government agencies, and/or partnerships working to prevent sexual violence, intimate partner violence, youth violence, suicide, and/or child maltreatment.
 
The manual discusses seven steps an organization might take to hire an empowerment evaluator from preparing for the hiring process to assessing and sustaining the evaluation. Resources, worksheets, and sample documents are included to make the hiring process easier. The manual also includes “Field Notes,” documenting the experiences and lessons learned from CDC’s DELTA and EMPOWER grantees in hiring empowerment evaluators.
 
Additional information on violence prevention can be found by accessing the following links:

Immigration Relief for Crime Victims: The U Visa Manual

This manual aims to provide guidance to lawyers on issues that arise in the context of representing U visa applicants. It is designed for practitioners who are familiar with basic immigration terms and legal concepts. The manual is not meant to be an exhaustive source of the law; it is not meant to provide instruction on every aspect of representation, nor is it meant to take the place of direct legal advice, advocacy, or a practitioner’s own research and evaluation of the case.

Immigration Relief for Crime Victims: The U Visa Manual

Manual for Estimating the Economic Costs of Injuries Due to Interpersonal and Self-Directed Violence

The manual provides a standardized set of recommendations to estimate the direct and indirect economic costs of interpersonal and self-directed violence. It is intended primarily for economists, public health experts and researchers interested in conducting studies of this nature.
 
Manual for Estimating the Economic Costs of Injuries Due to Interpersonal and Self-Directed Violence

San Diego County Sexual Assault Response Team Standards of Practice

This manual provides extensive standards of practice for members of interdisciplinary sexual assault response teams.

San Diego County Sexual Assault Response Team Standards of Practice

Getting Safe and Sober: Real Tools You Can Use

A practical tool kit for use with women who have substance abuse or chemical dependence problems and who are, or have been, victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or sexual abuse. The kit also can be used to train service providers about the needs of women whose experience includes both substance abuse and victimization.

For Spanish description, see here:
http://www.andvsa.org/pubs/2-%20manual%20SpanishVersion.pdf
 
 Getting Safe and Sober: Real Tools You Can Use

A Handbook on Planning Projects to Prevent Child Trafficking

Although a lot has been learnt already about practical ways in which adults and children who have been trafficked can be protected and assisted, much less attention has been given in recent years to drawing lessons about what techniques succeed in preventing trafficking from occurring. As a result, donors seem reluctant to invest money in efforts to prevent child trafficking, even though they are familiar with the old adage, “prevention is better than cure”. Giving prevention more attention means improving the quality of preventive work, as well as increasing the amount of work being done. This handbook is a contribution towards that improvement, distilling some of the lessons which have already been learnt by many different organisations.
 
A Handbook on Planning Projects to Prevent Child Trafficking