Key Special Collections

The following Special Collections produced by the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence offer helpful resources and guidance to support the prevention of intimate partner violence.

Available through VAWnet.org, Special Collections are organized lists of select resources on specific topics related to violence against women that provide contextual information to encourage critical analysis.

  • Trauma-Informed Environments for Young People (November 2024)
    This Special Collection explores how to build and sustain trauma-informed, asset-based environments for children and youth with an emphasis on promoting the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH), or the conditions in the places where children and youth are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and grow.
  • Being a Man: Preventing Domestic and Sexual Violence (January 2024)
    This collection explores the why and the how of engaging men in efforts to end domestic and sexual violence.
  • Capacity Building for Domestic Violence Prevention (August 2012)
    This collection provides materials to support the work of building organizational capacity in state and local domestic violence programs for primary prevention work, as it relates to assessing and influencing change in individuals, communities, and institutions.
  • Intimate Partner Homicide Prevention (July 2011)
    This Special Collection explores the most tragic consequence of domestic violence and offers a variety of tools and information towards its prevention.
  • Models in Prevention: CDC’s DELTA Program (August 2011)
    Nearly one decade after the CDC initiated the DELTA Program, there is a strong foundation of information and lessons learned regarding promising practices in the primary prevention of intimate partner violence. This collection highlights the successes of this program and its grantees, providing materials to support replication of these efforts across the United States and globally.
  • Fostering Resilience, Respect & Healthy Growth in Childhood and Beyond (July 2016)
    This Special Collection offers resources that promote strategies for creating environments where children can thrive with a particular focus on enhancing capacity for resilience across the lifespan.