Downloadable Resources

Children, Teens, and Parents, Downloadable Resources, For Advocates, For Family and Friends, For Survivors, Self-Care

Downloadable Resources Helping you through. Below are free downloadable resources available to all. Brain InjuryFor AdvocatesFor DV ProgramsFor Family and FriendsFor SurvivorsHealthcareLegal ResourcesWellnessEn Español CHATS: Head Injury Identification and...

Self-Care Corner

Self-Care

Self-Care Corner Advocates are caregivers and we do lifesaving work, but we work daily with survivors who have been traumatized and are in crisis. It involves us going down that dark hole many survivors are in and being present with them during the difficult days and...

Publications

For Advocates

Publications Guidance for Survivors of Domestic Violence: Love Shouldn’t Hurt Model Healthcare Protocol: Model Healthcare Protocol The Ohio Domestic Violence Health Care Protocol: Standards of Care: The Ohio Domestic Violence Health Care Protocol: Standards of...

What is Abuse?

Children, Teens, and Parents, For Advocates, For Survivors

What is Abuse? Domestic abuse is when your partner uses a pattern of coercive and assaultive behaviors to obtain power and control over you. The American Heritage Dictionary defines coercion as “to force to act or think in a certain way by use of pressure, threats, or...

Love Shouldn’t Hurt

Children, Teens, and Parents, For Survivors

Love Shouldn’t Hurt Introduction All of us have rights when we are in a relationship. We have the right to be loved, to be respected, to say what we are thinking, to be in contact with whomever we want to be in contact with, to make our own choices about what we...