The At the Intersection of Domestic Violence and Substance Use: A Toolkit for Hope, Healing and Advocacy for Family Justice Centers, is one of a series of resources developed to support the provision of more holistic, hope-centered, and trauma-informed substance use advocacy and services in Family Justice Centers.
Substance use and confidentiality
Mandated reporting requirements
Trauma-informed approaches to mandated reporting
The relationship between domestic violence, sexual assault, trauma, mental health, and substance use (including substance use coercion)
Trauma-informed and anti-stigma framework for contextualizing substance use (and related behaviors) for survivors of domestic violence and/or sexual assault.
Why might survivors use substances?
Patterns and dynamics of substance us
Women and substance use
Commonly used substances and their effects