This manual provides information and suggestions for congregational leaders around the issue of sex offenders in their religious community. The manual focuses on prevention through education, awareness raising, and policy development.
 
Balancing Acts: Keeping Children Safe in Congregations

This guide includes information about priority public health research areas that should be addressed by the CDC and its partners in the next decade.
 
Advancing the Nation's Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs, 2006-2015

This paper from the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault explores how sexual assault prevention education can be integrated in the mandated "safe, civil learning climate" in Colorado. This will be a valuable resource for teachers and administrators looking to "sell" a new sexual assault prevention program in their local school, school district or community. It covers some of the different methods for presenting the subject ("stand alone" curricula versus peer educators) and describes how sexual assault prevention education can be used to meet required academic standards. At the back is a list of "Recommended Social Skills" related to sexual assault prevention.
Using Sexual Violence Prevention Education to Create a Safe, Civil Learning Climate

This guide describes the problem of acquaintance rape of college students, addressing its scope, causes and contributing factors; methods for analyzing it on a particular campus; tested responses; and measures for assessing response effectiveness. With this information, police and public safety officers can more effectively prevent the problem.
 
Acquaintance Rape of College Students

This toolkit is designed to aid Sexual Assault Counselors and Advocates in introducing the topic of Crime Victims Compensation to sexual assault victims as part of their healing process.
 
A Tool for Recovery

This book is part of a sexual abuse prevention series designed to prevent non-parental sexual abuse. It is the result of years of research on sexual abuse and pedophile tendencies. This Book Covers:

- Myths and facts of sexual abuse
- Molester psychology
- How the damage occurs
- Why children don’t tell
- The psychology of abuse-what makes it click
- What makes kids a hard target
- How to abuse proof your child
- Avoiding suggestive questioning
 
A Parents Guide to Sexual Abuse Prevention

This protocol was designed as a guide for criminal justice and health care practitioners who respond to victims of sexual assault.
 A National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations: Adults/Adolescents

Adapted from the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault guide, this guide for survivors includes definitions related to civil lawsuits, information on the advantages and disadvantages of filing a civil suit, personal, financial and legal factors. The guide also discusses the role of an attorney and how to select an attorney. Civil lawsuit procedures are outlined and explained.
 
A Guide to Civil Lawsuits: Practical Considerations for Survivors of Rape and Childhood Sexual Abuse

This resource lists summaries of state statutes on access to emergency contraception.
 
50 State Summary of Emergency Contraception Laws

"This monograph will explore different psychological and behavioral responses to sexual violence and why these responses appear to be 'counterintuitive' to the general public."
Victim Responses to Sexual Assault: Counterintuitive or Simply Adaptive?

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