This website is a quick and easy way for people who live in Wisconsin to find out if they are eligible for benefits. Help your clients learn what they are eligible for and apply online. Privacy and confidentiality are a priority. Spanish speakers who know how to read in Spanish can navigate easily if they know how to use a computer.
Family Financial Management Toolbox

Free Income Tax Assistance: For more information click on your county for location and contacts in your area.

Based on the Duluth Model.

This website is a quick and easy way for people who live in Wisconsin to find out if they are eligible for benefits. Help your clients learn what they are eligible for and apply online. Privacy and confidentiality are a priority. Spanish speakers who know how to read in Spanish can navigate easily if they know how to use a computer.
www.access.wisconsin.gov

Listing by county/tribe of all Wisconsin domestic violence and sexual assault coordinated community response teams, coalitions, commissions, alliances, task forces or intervention projects.

All children who live with domestic violence are affected by the experience. This short document explains in more detail.

Understand what children and youth exposed to domestic violence need. Get ideas and strategies to help them heal, whether working individually or in groups.

Parenting by abusers, parenting by battered women, suggestions for talking with battered women about their efforts as a parent, why battered mothers stay.

This one and a half page document gives a brief overview of teen dating violence and healthy relationships and also includes references to February's Teen Dating Violence Prevention and Awareness Month. 

WCADV and WCASA co-sponsor a statewide committee to give voice to people who are under-represented, based on gender identity and/or sexual orientation and whose lives have been effected by sexual and/or domestic violence. Our membership includes community members, program staff, direct-service advocates and people interested in addressing the issues of sexual and domestic violence for the LGBT community. Contact us if you are interested in joining us: Email

Compiled by WCADV and WCASA, this document is an extensive list of organizations and other resources for the LGBTQ community and supporters. Includes resources on advocacy, legal issues, marginalized populations, community education, health care, spirituality, anti-violence, hotline information and more.

This eight page guide features free resources available through the internet that provide information on teen dating violence and healthy relationships.  The resource list includes websites speaking directly to teens as well as resources for adult allies. This resource is a work in progress and will continue to be updated.  Last updated: Feb 2nd 2012.

Topics include:

• Teen dating violence
• Healthy relationships & Social Change
• Sexual violence
• Digital abuse
• Teens exposed to domestic violence.

This two part safety plan is for teens in an abusive dating relationship to be prepared just in case and for teens ready to leave an abusive relationship to be safe during and after the breakup.  The document is designed for teens to fill in based on what is right for them.  The document includes:

• Teen Dating Abuse Safety Plan if you are in a relationship
• Teen Dating Abuse Safety Plan if you decide to break up

This one page flier offers a list of what youth affected by dating and sexual violence need.  Consider hanging this flier at your program, in schools and in your community.  There is a space to include your program's local contact information. 

This one page flier includes suggestions of how to help a friend in an abusive relationship.  Consider distributing this handout at your program, in schools and in your community.  There is a space to include your program's local contact information.  

This one page document lists 25 ways YOU can prevent teen dating and sexual violence.  These action steps are relevant for EVERYONE.  It's a great way to get discussion going and action happening during February and throughout the year.  Talk with others about more ways you can help stop the cycle of violence. 

Ten tips and considerations for advocates building a relationship with teen clients while respecting reporting and teen confidentiality.

This unique and innovative micro website was developed by NNEDV’s Safety Net Team to assist domestic violence, dating abuse, sexual violence, and stalking non-profit victim service organizations and partnerships including victims service agencies with specific and useful resources on confidentiality and privacy.  www.nnedv.org/tools

Computers and cell phones are useful to gather information and stay in touch with family and friends. But cell phones and computers can also be used to harass you, follow you, and abuse you. Reading the attached safety tips will help you use your computer and/or cell phone more safely.

Lots of documents from NNEDV's Safety Net: National Safe and Strategic Technology Project. Topics include survivor safety planning, confidentiality, spyware, teens, identity change, data security, social networking, online safety and assistive technology.  www.nnedv.org/resources/safetynetdocs.html

Tips to discuss if someone you know is in danger. This handout provides 12 simple but critical tips about phone, computer, email, instant messaging and other technology use to discuss if someone you know is in danger.

Un Plan de Protección de la Tecnología para las(os) Sobrevivientes: Unos concejos para analizar si usted conoce a una persona que está en peligro.

This document is available from NNEDV in several other languages.

NCSA's mission is to educate and therefore empower a digital society to use the Internet safely and securely at home, work, and school. Includes information and teaching materials, plus tipsheets for adults, children, students, businesses and employees .

www.staysafeonline.org

With VAWA confidentiality provisions in mind, this document, created by the National Network to End Domestic Violence, answers questions about confidentiality for survivors including those regarding the following U.S. federal laws: The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics (Clery)3, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)4, and, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

Click on the table of contents to jump to a section. You may wish to only print out sections you need to refer to regularly, as updates to this manual will happen periodically. 

Updated 2/1/13 (new appendix, how hotline calls are counted on funder reports).  Please contact  Vicki, WCADV Technology Coordinator, at 608-255-0539 or by email to suggest changes or additions.

WCADV has recorded several Alice training webinars on data-entry, customization and reporting that you can access if you have a member login (Go to MEMBERS > Alice software help). Contact Vicki if you need member permission.

These editable forms include all of the information you need to enter information into Alice for DCF, VOCA or SAVS funders. You can adapt these for your agency's use: add other information you need to collect, or remove items that are specific to funding you don't have.

Customize Alice software so your data appears correctly on funder reports!

• Where to find funder requirements in Alice
• Create and use custom fields
• Edit drop-down and multiple choice lists
• Make sure your activities are reported correctly

Watch the recording (computer speakers or headphones necessary): http://www.wcadv.net/Webinars/AliceCustomizingForFunders051412/lib/playback.html

NOTE that the DCF Report submission procedure has changed as of September 2012. You no longer have to change your proxy.ini file or open a port on your router.

Handouts from Alice webinar: Activities/Services April 2012 may be helpful.

Watch a demo: What makes activities count on reports; Link Service Names to Service Types; Enter activities individually or in batches; Customize Service Names and Service Categories; Look at some Activities reports. About 1 hour.

NOTE: The service names and types used in the webinar are for demonstration purposes only. For accurate reporting of various kinds of services follow the guidelines in the handouts or help documents, or contact your funder.

http://www.wcadv.net/Webinars/AliceActivities041112/lib/playback.html

Watch a demo of WCADV's Technology Coordinator entering hotline calls, intakes and activities.  

http://www.wcadv.net/Webinars/AliceIntakes032712/lib/playback.html