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http://www.safeplace.org/site/PageServer?pagename=program_disability
Disability Services ASAP provides education to people with disabilities in order to increase awareness about sexual abuse/assault, domestic violence and abuse by personal care providers, personal safety planning, healthy relationships and sexuality. Presentations and training are also available to professionals and family members on a range of issues including disability awareness/sensitivity, the dynamics of abuse in relationships involving an individual with a disability, developing accessible and relevant services, safety planning, providing personal safety education to persons with disabilities, etc.

http://www.fcasv.org/
The Florida Council Against Sexual violence is a statewide nonprofit organization committed to victims and survivors of sexual violence and the rape crisis programs who serve them.

http://www.fcadv.org/
The Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence (FCADV) works towards ending violence through public awareness, policy development, and support for Florida's domestic violence centers. Serving Florida's 41 domestic violence centers, FCADV runs Florida's toll-free domestic violence hotline, maintains a resource library, and develops posters, brochures, safety plans, and other resources.

http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/133/133.pdf
This feature issue of Impact Magazine (published by the Institute on Community Integration at the University of Minnesota) provides articles and resources pertaining to violence committed against women with developmental disabilities.

http://myfloridalegal.com/victims
The Florida Attorney General's Division of Victim Services not only serves as an advocate for crime victims and victims' rights, it also administers a compensation program to ensure financial assistance for innocent victims of crime. As part of its responsibility, the division also notifies victims of the status of any appellate decisions regarding their cases. Injured crime victims may be eligible for financial assistance for medical care, lost income, mental health services, funeral expenses and other out-of-pocket expenses directly related to the injury. If needed, they can also be referred to support organizations within their home area (which may be accessed via their website as well).

http://www.stopitnow.com/
Stop It Now! was founded in 1992 by Fran Henry, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, who recognized that standard ideas about preventing sexual abuse of children weren't working. Stop It Now! believes that all adults must accept the responsibility to recognize, acknowledge and confront the behaviors that lead to the sexual abuse of children. This website offer adults tools they can use to prevent sexual abuse - before there's a victim to heal or an offender to punish. In collaboration with their network of community-based Stop It Now! programs, they reach out to adults who are concerned about their own or others' sexualized behavior toward children.

http://www.albany.edu/aging/IDD/docs.htm
The resources provided on this website were developed by DiAnn Baxley, Project Director, Anna Zendell, and Jeanne Matich-Maroney as part of a grant from the Florida Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, in collaboration with the University at Albany, Center on Intellectual Disabilities. The materials are designed to open dialogue between school and home on the topic of providing sexuality education to children and adolescents with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

http://www.accpc.ca/rtr-resources-sayingno.htm
Suggestions by persons who use augmentative communication devices include:
- Tips for Communicating About Your Boundaries
- Phrases to Communicate About Your Boundaries
- Suggested Phrases for use with ACDs

http://www.nationaldb.org/documents/products/sex-ed.pdf
"Introduction to Sexuality Education for Individuals who are Deaf-Blind and Significantly Developmentally Delayed" is a 126-page document which is written much like a curriculum and provides good background and some specific content. While it is written about children and teens who are Deaf-Blind, it is also an excellent general disabilities resource. The chapters include an introduction, guidelines for developing a process for intervention and instruction, and topics such as modesty, appropriate touch and personal boundaries, menstruation, sexual health care, sexual abuse, and a resources section.

http://nationaldb.org/ISSelectedTopics.php?topicCatID=20 This link to the website of the National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness offers a list of resources pertaining to social and sexuality education for individuals with visual, hearing, and/or cognitive impairments.

http://www.arcofkingcounty.org/guide/library/arccj.pdf
This link to the Arc's Justice Advocacy Guide was produced by The Arc of the United States and is subtitled "An Advocate's Guide on Assisting Victims and Suspects/Defendants with Intellectual Disabilities." It offers a comprehensive description of the challenges faced by those persons with intellectual disabilities who have either been victimized or accused of committing crimes as well as practical information for advocates working with these individuals.

http://icad.wordpress.com/
The International Coalition on Abuse and Disability (ICAD) was established at the JP Das Developmental Disabilities Centre in 1993 as means of sharing information about violence and abuse in the lives of people with disabilities and providing a platform for discussion on what can be done to control these problems. ICAD is a joint venture of the JP Das Developmental Disabilities Centre and the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.