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Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act advances

December 6, 2010

posted in: CALCASA,Public Affairs

Posted on the White House Blog by Lynn Rosenthal, White House Advisor on Violence Against Women: In October, President Obama and Vice President Biden announced unprecedented coordination across the federal government to protect victims of domestic violence and help break the cycle of abuse. Last week, the U.S. Senate took an important step towards the

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Sin By Silence examines domestic violence and incarceration

October 14, 2010

posted in: campus

I’m floored by the sheer courage and strength of survivors when I hear their journey identifying root causes of oppression and healing.  Sin By Silence, a film about the first inmate initiated domestic violence group in the history of U.S. prisons, screened to an audience of PLU students, staff and Tacoma community members the evening

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Thai youth attitudes toward dating violence

March 25, 2010

posted in: prevention

In the article recently published in the journal International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, the author Pradubmook-Sherer examines the relationships of many factors to attitudes about dating violence among Thai youth.  The factors examined include class (using school type as the proxy), delinquency, self-esteem and school performance. In the conclusion, Pradubmook-Sherer discussed the

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Losing the “gender” in gender-based violence

March 16, 2010

posted in: Education,prevention

Gender based violence is a term used throughout the world. That is, used everywhere except the United States.  Here we use a wide range of terms: domestic violence, intimate partner violence and dating violence (usually used to describe young people’s relationships). In a commentary in the recent issue of Violence Against Women

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Vicarious Trauma and Communities of Color

October 15, 2009

posted in: Education

The National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s (NSVRC) Newsletter, The Resource (Spring/Summer 2009) had an article titled, “Coping with Vicarious Trauma: Strategies for Advocates Working with Communities of Color” by Tatiana Diaz, M.A. The article highlighted the complexities that Advocates of Color face when working with Communities of Color as well as the additional issues of Vicarious Trauma associated with the multi-dimensional

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Violence-Free Teens: Building Healthy Relationships Conference

October 2, 2009

posted in: prevention

Yesterday I attended Peace Over Violence‘s second annual Violence-Free Teens Conference. This exciting event highlighted many violence against women prevention efforts.  This event brought together over 100 people including youth, teachers, rape crisis centers, domestic violence agencies and other youth-serving organizations. With a focus on how to support youth to take action “over violence” and

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