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Family and Children’s Trust Fund of Virginia: New Reports and Blog
The Family and Children's Trust Fund of Virginia (FACT) has debuted a new blog to house news, research, trainings, and other information related to family violence in Virginia. The blog can be found at www.fact.virginia.gov/factblog
FACT recently migrated its annual report to a new online research and data portal. The portal and 2015 FACT Report can be found at their website here.
Family and Intimate Partner Homicide: 2011
The Office of the Cheif Medical Examiner released it's annual report from the Family and Intimate Partner Homicide Surveillance Project in April, 2013. The annual report is a descriptive analysis of the characteristics and circumstances surrounding family and intimate partner homicide in Virginia in 2011. This and other reports from the Family and Intimate Partner Homicide Surveillance Project can be found here.
Family and Intimate Partner Violence Fatality Review Protocol (3rd edition)
Team Protocol and Resource Manual (3rd Edition)
This Protocol and Resource Manual that supports the development of local and regional domestic violence fatality review teams in Virginia. The resources and materials included here provide directions on death review in the area of domestic violence homicides.
Published by: Virginia Department of Health, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. December, 2009. 98 pages.
FAQ on the VAWA Confidentiality Provision
If you've ever been confused about the difference between VAWA, FVPSA, VOCA, and HIPAA on issues of privacy and confidentiality for survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence, rest assured, you are not alone. Navigating these different standards can be very confusing when it comes to service provisions, survivor privacy, and data confidentialty.
This document produced by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women has produced a very helpful FAQ document that addresses many of the questions that arrise in SDVAs when it comes to how to protect surivior's privacy based on VAWA requiements. There are answers to question about verbal consent, what to do if law enforcement visit shelters, how grantees should handle grant monitoring inquiries, and considerations for using cloud servers for data storage. Check it out by downloading it below.
Feelings and Emotions List
This handout was provided by Santa Sorenson from the Richmond Peace Education Center at the workshop titled "Conflict Resolution" at the Virginia Department of Social Services Office of Family Violence Promising Practices conference on September 16, 2013.
