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Understanding Trauma, Violence & Exploitation

Bridge2Future explores the connections between childhood adversity, coercive control, intimate partner violence, trauma, and exploitation through research and evidence-informed insights.

Our research resources aim to deepen understanding, inform public policy discussions, and support more effective responses to violence and its long-term impacts.

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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Explore how adverse experiences in childhood can affect health, relationships, and well-being across a lifetime and future generations.

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Coercive Control

Understand patterns of intimidation, isolation, manipulation, and control, including abuse that continues after separation or occurs within institutions.

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Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

Examine cycles of abuse, post-separation violence, and the connections between intimate partner violence, coercive control, and sex trafficking.

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Trauma

Explore how traumatic experiences affect the brain, body, and memory, and why trauma-informed responses are essential.

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Beyond Survival

Regulating the Nervous System After Operational Stress and Vicarious Trauma

Explore how operational stress and vicarious trauma affect the nervous system, and learn about a practical three-level framework for regulation and recovery support.

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