Created: 2.16.05
(Note: The “publisher” field has only been included when that information is available. Because many of these documents are only available online, a “publisher” does not exist or is unclear.)
Title: Successfully Investigating Acquaintance Sexual Assault:
A National Training Manual for Law Enforcement
Media: Training manual available in web-based format as a PDF
or HTML document
Author: National Center for Women & Policing
Year: 2001
Language: English
Target audience: Law enforcement
Focus: Investigates non-stranger sexual assault. Training materials
include 12 content modules, 12 trainer's curriculum units, classroom overheads,
and supplemental materials that include sample affidavits and search warrants.
Available from: VAWnet Library
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/library/sexassault/
Title: Victim-Oriented Multidisciplinary Responses to Statutory
Rape Training
Media: Training manual available in web-based format as a PDF,
TXT, or HTML document
Author: Office for Victims of Crime
Year and publisher: 2000
Language: English
Target audience: None provided
Focus: A training guide designed to increase reporting, improve
investigations and prosecutions, improve treatment of victims and offenders,
and provide guidelines for judges in sentencing.
Available from: Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
http://www.mincava.umn.edu/
Title: Unmasking Sexual Con Games: A Leader’s Guide
to Helping Teens Avoid Emotional Grooming and Dating Violence
Media: 199-page manual
Authors: Kathleen McGee and Laura Buddenberg
Year and publisher: 2003 by Boystown Press
Language: English
Target audience: None provided
Focus: This curriculum exposes various types of manipulation
used to coerce teens into sexual activity and provides teens with skills to
combat sexual harassment. The manual includes lesson plans and a guide for teens.
Available from: Boystown Press
http://www.girlsandboystown.org
Title: Unmasking Sexual Con Games: A Teen's Guide to Avoiding
Emotional Grooming and Dating Violence
Media: 79-page handbook
Authors: Kathleen McGee and Laura Buddenberg
Year and publisher: 2003 by Boystown Press
Language: English
Target audience:
Focus: This handbook identifies manipulative techniques used
to coerce teens into sexual activity and provides useful skills to combat sexual
harassment. Companion volume to the "Unmasking Sexual Con Games: Helping
Teens Avoid Emotional Grooming and Dating Violence" curriculum.
Available from: Boystown Press
http://www.girlsandboystown.org
Title: Steps to Healthy Touching Activities to Help Kids Understand
and Control Their Problems with Touching
Media: 128-page workbook
Authors: Carolyn Cunningham and Kee MacFarlane
Year and publisher: 2003 by KIDSRIGHTS
Language: English
Target audience: Appropriate for both group and individual
therapy.
Focus: A therapy tool consisting of an interactive workbook
with drawing and writing activities. The format is based on the Twelve Steps
of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Available from: Jistlife
http://www.jistlife.com
Title: Steps to Healthy Touching Counselor's/Teacher's Guide
Media: 16-page manual
Authors: Kee MacFarlane and Carolyn Cunningham
Year and publisher: 2003 by KIDSRIGHTS
Language: English
Target audience: Professionals working with children.
Focus: This supplemental guide to the Steps to Healthy Touching
workbook provides tips for working with children with sexually abusive or inappropriate
behavior. Discussion topics and questions for parents are also included.
Available from: KIDSRIGHTS
http://www.kidsrights.com
Title: Three Kinds of Touches Curriculum
Media: Curriculum
Author: Unknown
Year and publisher: 2001 by Pennsylvania Coalition Against
Rape
Language: English
Target audience: Educators doing prevention education at the
preschool level.
Focus: A companion piece to the Three Kinds of Touches book,
this curriculum focuses on Safe, Ouch, and Uh-Oh touches. Includes fun activities
for children, classroom presentations, parent workshops, a teacher in-service,
take-home materials, and program evaluations.
Available from: Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
http://www.pcar.org/acatalog/Education_and_Curriculums.html
Title:
Drug-facilitated Sexual Assault/Date Rape Drugs: Are You or Someone
You Know in Danger?
Media: PowerPoint presentation
Author: Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
Year: 2003
Language: English
Target audience: None provided
Focus: PowerPoint presentation describes the common drugs used,
their street names, intended use, and side effects along with protection techniques
and guidelines for victim assistance. Package includes measurement tools and
participant quizzes.
Available from: Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
http://www.pcar.org/acatalog/Education_and_Curriculums.html
Title: Building Healthy Relationships
Media: Curriculum
Author: Unknown
Year: 2000
Language: English
Target audience: School age children
Focus: A two-part curriculum for with separate lesson plans
and activities for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Covers sexual harassment,
bullying, respect, and healthy relationships.
Available from: Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
http://www.pcar.org/acatalog/Education_and_Curriculums.html
Title: Understanding Sexual Violence: Prosecuting Rape and
Sexual Assault Cases
Media: 4-Day Curriculum available in web-based format as a
HTML and MS Word document
Author: National Judicial Education Program and American Prosecutors
Research Institute
Year: 2001
Language: English
Target audience: Prosecutors, police, victim advocates, rape
crisis counselors and probation departments.
Focus: Presents information through of a format of a case file.
Curriculum uses small group exercises and plenary discussions and covers effects
of rape myths and stereotypes on charging decisions, jury selection and jury
deliberations; how victim impact effects victim interviewing and preparation;
experts such as sexual assault forensic examiners; drug-facilitated rape; plea
offers and sentencing.
Available from: VAWnet Library
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/library/sexassault/
Title: The Non-stranger Sexual Assault Training Manual
Media: Manual
Author: The Ending Violence Against Women Project
Year and publisher: 2000 by The Ending Violence Against Women
Project
Language: English
Target audience: None provided.
Focus: Chapters include law overview, investigation overview,
forensic examination, victim impact, voire dire, victim interviews, direct exam/expert
witness, false/unfounded reports, suspect dynamics, pretext calls and suspect
interviews, drug facilitated rape, and resources.
Available from: CALCASA
www.calcasa.org
Title: Victim-Oriented Multidisciplinary Responses to Statutory
Rape Training Guide
Media: Training guide available in web-based format as ASCII
Text, HTML, or PDF document
Author: Sharon G. Elstein and Barbara E. Smith
Year: 2000
Language: English
Target audience: Law enforcement, prosecutors and victim service
providers.
Focus: Presents issues and problems encountered in statutory
rape cases and identifies potential strategies to handle them.
Available from: Office for Victims of Crime of the Department
of Justice
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/assist/
Title: Focusing on Pride: Prevention of Sexual Assault as
a Hate Crime in the LGBT Community, Part II
Media: Curricula containing an informational resource packet
Author: CALCASA
Year and publisher: 2003 by CALCASA
Language: English
Target audience: None provided
Focus: Provides strategies for intervention, prevention, and
advocacy.
Available from: CALCASA
www.calcasa.org
Title: Working with the Media: A Toolkit for Service Providers
Media: Toolkit available in web-based format as a PDF document
Author: Tammy Lemmer
Year and publisher: 2004 by Michigan Coalition Against Domestic
and Sexual Violence
Language: English
Target audience: Sexual assault service providers
Focus: Designed to encourage discussion between service providers
and journalists regarding the public discussion on sexual assault.
Available from: Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual
Violence
http://www.mcadsv.org/
Title: Toolkit to End Violence Against Women
Media: Toolkit available in web-based format as a PDF or ASCII
document
Author: National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women
and the Violence Against Women Office
Year: 2001
Language: English
Target audience: Communities, policy leaders, and individuals
engaged in activities to end violence against women.
Focus: Sixteen chapters concentrating on specific areas provide
recommendations for service delivery, advocacy, and prevention.
Available from: National Criminal Justice Resource Service
http://toolkit.ncjrs.org/
Title: The Working with Men & Boys to Prevent Gender-Based
Violence Tool Kit
Media: Toolkit available in web-based format as an HTML document
Author: Family Violence Prevention Fund
Year: 2004
Language: English
Target audience: Practitioners and those interested in working
with men and boys to end violence.
Focus: A 10-lesson plan for men and boys designed to prevent
gender-based violence. It provides readings, case studies, handouts, exercises,
and other resources as well as community-building tools.
Available from: Family Violence Prevention Fund
http://toolkit.endabuse.org/Home
Title: Sexual Assault Risk Reduction Curriculum
Media: Curriculum available in web-based format as a zip file,
PDF documents, and PowerPoint sllides
Authors: Ellen Hohenstein and Arline Kennedy
Year: 2001
Language: English
Target audience: School personnel, police, and community agency
staff.
Focus: A curriculum designed for high school and middle school
aged youth to reduce sexual assault. The lessons can be used in either school
or non-school settings, such as health clinics, after-school programs, youth
centers and camps.
Available from: Sexual Assault Training & Investigations
http://www.mysati.com/curriculum.htm
Title: Girl Power!
Media: Curriculum
Author: Unknown
Year: 2001
Language: English
Target audience: Preadolescent girls
Focus: A prevention/education curricula highlighting the association
between sexual assault and drug and alcohol abuse. Covers identity, diversity,
communication, decision-making, drug and alcohol prevention, and sexual assault
prevention. Intended to increase girls’ skills to promote personal safety
in their lives.
Available from: Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
http://www.pcar.org/acatalog/Education_and_Curriculums.html
Title: Reaching Out to Communities of Faith
Media: 87-page manual
Author: Pittsburgh Action Against Rape
Year: 2003
Language: English
Target audience: Rape crisis programs
Focus: Manual is designed to encourage dialog between religious
communities and rape crisis service providers in order to better serve victims.
Includes relationship-building techniques, policies for reducing the risk of
child sexual abuse in congregation, and clergy training programs.
Available from: Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
http://www.pcar.org/acatalog/Education_and_Curriculums.html
Title: Educating the Community About Sexual Assault and the
Management of Sex Offenders in the Community
Media: Curriculum available in web-based format as PDF files
and PowerPoint slides
Author: Center for Sex Offender Management
Year: 2002
Language: English
Target audience: Community members and public agencies responsible
for sex offender management.
Focus: The curriculum contains four sections: what community
members need to know about sexual assault and sex offenders; conducting a community
notification; managing sex offenders; and the role of the community. Materials
include lecture notes, slides, learning activities, handouts, a user’s
guide, and special consideration for community education.
Available from: Center for Sex Offender Management
http://www.csom.org/train/index.html
Title: 2000 National Victim Assistance Academy - Training
Material on Stalking (Ch.22)
Media: Training available in web-based format as an HTML document
Author: Office for Victims of Crime of the Department of Justice
Year and publisher: Updated January 29, 2001 by Office for
Victims of Crime of the Department of Justice.
Language: English
Target audience: Criminal justice officials and victim service
professionals.
Focus: Addresses definitions of stalking, stalking statutes,
characteristics of stalkers and their victims, categories of stalking, impact
on victims, and victim response strategies.
Available from: Office for Victims of Crime of the Department
of Justice
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/assist/nvaa2000/academy/chap22-2.htm
Title: Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, & Stalking Prevention
and Intervention in Rural Native American Communities: Training, Research, and
Education
Media: Training manual available in web-based format as a PDF,
TXT, or HTML document
Author: Native American Circle, Ltd.
Year and publisher: 1998 with 2001 updates by Native American
Circle, Ltd
Language: English
Target audience: None provided
Focus: A training manual for rural Native American communities
providing information on federal, state, and tribal laws, law enforcement responses,
judicial responses, advocacy, prevention and intervention, and resources.
Available from: Native American Circle, Ltd
http://www.nativeamericancircle.org/resources.asp
Title: Teen Dating Violence Prevention Curriculum and Workbook
for Native
American Girls
Media: Workbook and facilitator’s guide
Author: Native American Women’s Health Education Resource
Center
Year and publisher: 2002 by Native American Women’s Health
Education Resource Center
Language: English
Target audience: Ideal for the classroom or community groups
Focus: This prevention program is designed to address dating
violence and date rape. The workbook contains pertinent information and exercises,
and is accompanied by a facilitator’s guide.
Available from: Native American Women’s Health Education
Resource Center
www.nativeshop.org.
Title: Breaking Barriers: Immigration Issues and Sexual Assault
Prevention
Media: Curricula containing informational resource packet.
Author: CALCASA
Year and publisher: 2003 by CALCASA
Language: English
Target audience: None provided
Focus: Addresses the needs of survivors and offers strategies
for prevention for immigrant and refugee communities.
Available from: CALCASA
www.calcasa.org
Title: Sexual Assault Prevention for Individuals with Developmental
Disabilities
Media: Curriculum & Video
Author: Esther Voelker and Jody Ola
Year: 2000
Language: English
Target audience: Educators
Focus: Designed to assist people with disabilities navigate
dangerous situations by improving their knowledge and skills.
Available from: Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
http://www.pcar.org/acatalog/Education_and_Curriculums.html
Title: Professional Guide for Identifying Sexual Assault in
Individuals With Developmental Disabilities
Media: CD with the presentation and PowerPoint software
Author: unknown
Year: unknown
Language: English
Target audience: Professionals who work with developmentally
disabled individuals
Focus: As a companion piece to "Sexual Assault Prevention
for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities," this curricula is intended
to inform educators about sexual assault and teach them how to reduce their
clients’ risk. Comes with presenter’s notes.
Available from: Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
http://www.pcar.org/acatalog/Education_and_Curriculums.html
Title: Sexuality and Sexual Assault Awareness for Empowerment
(S.A.F.E.): A Preventative Educational Curriculum for Individuals with Physical
Disabilities
Media: Format unknown
Author: Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
Year: 2002
Language: English
Target audience: Professionals working with individuals with
physical disabilities
Focus: Intended to facilitate discussion regarding issues of
sexuality, boundaries, sexual assault, and empowerment with individuals with
disabilities to reduce incidence of sexual violence.
Available from: Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
http://www.pcar.org/acatalog/Education_and_Curriculums.html