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General Prevention Resources
Sexual Violence – Center for Disease Control (CDC): This page on the CDC website offers a wealth of information on sexual violence and prevention.
Sexual Violence Prevention: Beginning the Dialog: While this publication does not specifically address people with disabilities, it is an excellent overview of general sexual assault prevention principles and the framework of the socio-ecological model. Many directors of disability programs have found this publication helpful in understanding the issues and have been able to apply the information in their settings.
Socio-Ecological Model: The following link has information about applying the four-level socio-ecological model in various settings and uses the model to explain the potential benefits of violence prevention strategies.
Disability Justice and Violence Prevention Resource Hub: The Disability Justice and Violence Prevention Resource Hub (indisabilityjustice.org) shares and centers the voices of people with disabilities. The contributors, all neurodivergent or Disabled people, are compensated to lend their voices and creativity to the anti-violence field. The Hub features stories, poetry, photography, sculptures, spoken word, interviews, paintings, editorials, and fiction writing. We also share tools and resources, like our webinars and accessible evaluation, that we create collaboratively with people with disabilities and other stakeholders to prevent sexual violence against people with disabilities.
Deaf and Disability Community Resources
SAFE-Austin’s ASL Videos (YouTube) : These videos are provided in ASL and cover topics related to domestic violence and sexual assault.
End Abuse of People with Disabilities: This page on the End Abuse website focuses on prevention and offers resources to strengthen prevention.
Healing Resources
Healing After Sexual Violence (PDF): This brochure was developed by Partners for Inclusive Communities for people who have experienced sexual violence.
Healthy Relationships
Our Sexuality, Our Health: A Disabled Advocate’s Guide to Relationships, Romance, Sexuality and Sexual Health: The information presented here may prove useful and relevantfor both people with disabilities and other interested folks such as family members, educators, and health care professionals
National Council on Independent Living: Sex Ed for Individuals with I/DD: The National Council on Independent Living’s new project helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) learn about sex.
Policy Change
A Congressional Insider’s Guide to Influencing Disability Policy: The purpose of this guide by Bobby Silverstein is to provide persons with disabilities, family members, their advocates and other members of the public with suggestions for improving the effectiveness of their interactions with policy-makers.
Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children: The goal of this report is to advance understanding and promote the rights of parents with disabilities and their children. The report provides a comprehensive review of the barriers and facilitators people with diverse disabilities—including intellectual and developmental, psychiatric, sensory, and physical disabilities—experience when exercising their fundamental right to create and maintain families, as well as persistent, systemic, and pervasive discrimination against parents with disabilities.
Self-Advocacy
Envisioning the Future – Allies in Self Advocacy: This YouTube video provides an overview of the state of the self-advocacy movement and the regional summits held in 2011 and 2011.
Leaders with Developmental Disabilities in the Self-Advocacy Movement: This project explores the life stories of thirteen leaders in the self-advocacy movement and their perspectives on key issues and leadership challenges.
Learn How to Become a Peer Supporter of a Person who was Abused: We are teaching these classes to help self-advocates become “peer supporters”. Peer supporters gain information and tools during this course that will help them close the gaps between the person who was hurt and the programs that can help them.
Classes About Sexual Violence: Peer To Peer-Bridging the Gap through Self-Advocacy offers two resources to use to teach 4 classes about Sexual Violence. Here is a guide for leaders with disabilities on how to teach the classes. There is also a workbook to be used by people taking the classes.
Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE): The mission of SABE is to ensure that people with disabilities are treated as equals and that they are given the same decisions, choices, rights, responsibilities, and chances to speak up to empower themselves; opportunities to make new friends; and to learn from their mistakes.
Green Mountain Self-Advocates has lots of resources for self-advocates on abuse and related topics.