Identifying and Addressing Vicarious Trauma
This article discusses risk and protective factors for vicarious trauma overall with a specific focus on healthcare settings. It offers case scenarios to consider when discussing these ideas.
Understanding vicarious trauma
This article summary discusses research done and its conclusions about the correlation between work satisfaction and compassion fatigue, the importance of boundary setting and information support networks, and more.
Survivors of Homicide Victims
The purpose of this Information Bulletin is to describe some of the concerns of survivors of homicide victims, discuss some of the problems and situations they face in day-to-day life, and suggest some guidelines for providing support and assistance to them.
Grief and Support Resources
Dougy Center offers a wide range of resources for people of all ages who are grieving before and after a death. These resources are separated by age group: Kids 0-12, Teens 13-18, Young Adults, Parents and Caregivers, and more.
Homicide and Grief
This webpage offers information about grief as it relates to homicide. It talks about normal grief reactions following homicide, how to address the grief, and offers resources for support, including a phone help line and a resource map.
Homicide Victims/Co-Survivors
This OVC webpage offers a number of resources for a deeper understanding of the topic and to support survivors.
Promising Practices: Multidisciplinary Responses to Complex Homicide Cases
This report discusses building multidisciplinary teams for responding to homicide cases. It touches on building such a team, improving response, challenges, and offers other resources.
Enhancing the effectiveness of adult protective services programs
The mission of the APS TARC is to support federal, state, and local partners’ use of data and analytics, research and evaluation, and innovative practice and innovative strategies to enhance the effectiveness of APS programs.
Elder Abuse Task Force
The Task Force launched in 2019 and consists of more than 55 different organizations in the public, private and nonprofit sectors – all working together to combat elder abuse.
Elder abuse: How to spot warning signs, get help, and report mistreatment
This article discusses what elder abuse looks like, who is affected, what are the signs, where to go for help, and ideas for prevention.