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Supporting Survivor Health + Wellbeing: Strategies for Advocates

Background

This comprehensive toolkit for advocates provides practical strategies to enhance physical and behavioral health (including mental health and substance use), access to care, and overall well-being for survivors of violence and their children.

This toolkit includes:

  • Health as a core value of domestic and sexual violence programs
  • Creating a culture of wellbeing in domestic and sexual violence advocacy programs
  • Health promotion strategies
  • Increasing healthcare access through partnership
  • Policy advocacy

This resource was developed in collaboration by the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence at Futures Without Violence, the National Center for Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health, the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and Promising Futures: Specialized Services for Abused Parents and their Children.

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