Prevention

Police, become an activist, and notice the signs early so you can save yourself and whomever else.             

Prevention of Domestic Violence is not an easy to do. Most people don’t realize that its abuse they feel its love. Some feel it won’t happen again if they change something they are doing. To really prevent such violence is to know the signs and understand them. Then have the strength to get help and get out of that situation before it’s too late.

How To Get Help

1.    Division of Violence Prevention, NCIPC, CDC — This website provides information on the impact of violence, risk factors for violence, and effective prevention tips. It also addresses child abuse, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and youth violence

 http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/index.html


2.        Measuring Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Perpetration: A Compendium of Assessment Tools — The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC, has developed this compendium which provides researchers and prevention specialists with a set of assessment tools with demonstrated reliability and validity for measuring the self-reported incidence and prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence victimization and perpetration.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/Compendium/Measuring_IPV_Victimization_and_Perpetration.htm...

3.        State Sexual Assault Coalitions — This publication offers a list of addresses, phone numbers, and fax numbers of coalitions across the country that help with domestic violence.

http://www.ovw.usdoj.gov/statesexual.htm

4.      Coaching Boys Into Men Playbook (Copyright © Family Violence Prevention Fund) — This playbook provides strategies for parents, teachers, coaches, and other role models to teach boys about violence against women and how to prevent it.

http://fvpfstore.stores.yahoo.net/coaching-boys-into-men-playbook.html

5.      Controlling Anger - Before It Controls You (Copyright © American Psychological Association) — This publication provides information on the nature of anger, how to manage the expression of anger, and useful strategies for problem solving.

http://www.apa.org/topics/anger/control.aspx

6.      Domestic Violence: Protecting Yourself and Your Children (Copyright © American Academy of Family Physicians) — This fact sheet provides information on how to protect yourself and your children from domestic violence and where to go to get help, and includes other important facts you should know about domestic violence.

http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/healthy/safety/crisis/052.html

7.      VictimLaw (Copyright © National Center for Victims of Crime) — VictimLaw has been designed as a comprehensive, user-friendly, online database of victims' rights statutes, tribal laws, constitutional amendments, court rules, administrative code provisions, and case summaries of related court decisions that meets the needs of a wide variety of users with different levels of substantive and technological expertise. Such ready access to information can advance the cause of crime victims' rights by facilitating the exercise, implementati