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“This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) and its consequences across the lifespan.”
“Using data from The Trevor Project’s 2020 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health, this brief focuses on foster care and suicide risk among LGBTQ youth.”
“This collection offers guidance on how to provide accessible, culturally responsive, and affirming services to survivors of all genders. It includes resources that explain the importance of pronouns and outline some key concepts and terms relating to gender identity and expression.”
“APIAHF and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) have collaborated on a combat hate crime toolkit that provides basic and critical information for victims, community based organization, and community leaders.”
“In this webinar, you will learn about the unique risks they face, barriers they encounter when seeking services, and best practices that you can implement to serve survivors with I/DD effectively.”
“Preventing and ending sexual violence requires societal change, and much of that change is attitudinal. If we want to assess and respond to the root causes of sexual violence, we have to start with widely-held, cultural beliefs. Of all of the beliefs that reinforce violence, victim-blaming, or the assumption that survivors of assault are somehow at fault for their own abuse, is among the most damaging.”
“Drugs change the brain in ways that make quitting hard, even for those who want to quit. Fortunately, researchers know more than ever about how drugs affect the brain. Learning objective: Participants will learn the science of addiction. They will leave with the ability to explain why substance use disorders are a disease of the brain as well as a disability.”
A Toolkit for screening, assessment, and brief counseling in primary care and behavioral health settings.
“Upon completion of this webinar, you will be able to:
– Explain what constitutes a sexual offense, who commits these types of crimes, and contributing factors that lead to sexual offense behaviors.
– Describe fundamental supervision strategies for working with sex offenders as well as the essential qualities of evaluating and treating this population.
– Identify static and dynamic risk factors.
– List which factors research tells us are important for sexual re-offense.
– Explain how both risk assessment and strength-based practices inform the supervision and treatment of sex offenders.”
“During the workshop guest speakers will provide a general overview of elder abuse, its forms and how to report it, how to address financial exploitation, how to avoid scams and frauds carried out through the U.S. mailing system and the tools you need to protect yourself.”
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