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Fact Sheets

Fact sheets are available for download in PDF format.

  • Physical discipline of children
    • CDC Understanding child maltreatment factsheet
    • CDC Child maltreatment facts at a glance
  • Physician-patient communication about domestic violence
  • Housing and domestic violence
    • Housing rights for victims of domestic violence
      NCADV Domestic violence and housing
    • Violence Against Women Act of 2005 information sheet
  • Strangulation assaults in domestic violence cases
  • Intimate Partner Violence in same-sex relationships

Several more fact sheets are in development as of August 2009.
Please check back for the following fact sheets:

  • Abusers and guns
  • Arrest and domestic violence
  • CBO Information Support Services
  • Seed Grants
  • Travel Grants
  • Fact Sheets
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© 2009 The Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence
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