Praxis Products

Thisdramatic four-minute presentation depicts the events set in motion byone battered woman' s call to 911 ... from the criminal court case, tothe child protection investigation, to a protection-order petition, tomore calls to the police, to a visitation center visit, to her ultimateeviction. This training tool is a powerful illustration of the complexrelationship between battered women and the systems they turn to forhelp.

"We used “Rachel’sStory” at a community meeting today. In four minutes, it simply and powerfullyconveys what it would take any of us monthsto do as eloquently!" (Advocacy program)

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An online course that you can complete at your own pace, in any location

Are you an advocate working with agencies to develop a Coordinated Community Response or create more effective interagency responses to domestic violence cases?

If you are new to this work or an experienced advocate, and whether working with agencies individually or through a task force or team, this innovative course will teach you key steps in effective coordination and essential skills in how to:

access and use national resources to inform your thinking,
talk with women who have experienced battering to frame core safety issues,
analyze case files (police reports),
talk with practitioners to benefit from their expertise and build good relationships, and
facilitate a constructive interagency meeting that focuses on systemic issues.

This course is available in a high speed internet version or a low speed/dial up (CD-ROM) version. Note:the CD-ROM version is not compatible with Windows Vista operating system.

This training has a $180 market value!

Comments from students who have experienced the training:

“Very user friendly”

“The content was very applicable to my work as a task force coordinator; so easy to navigate.”

“I supervise coordinators in seven counties and [having completed the course] I will require all our community coordinator's to do it. It is an excellent building block for us to develop our work…”

“We have two new coordinators—this will be an excellent way to get them up to speed.”

“I will make the time to complete it when I return home...I think the course rocks!”

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The Safety and Accountability Audit Toolkit is a critical how-to guide for Audit Coordinators. Guides, templates, illustrations and checklists outline the Audit's philosophical underpinnings, clarify the data collection steps and methodologies, and provide a knowledge base for the team's work.

This 14-minute DVD features a description of the Audit process as well as feedback and testimony from criminal justice practitioners across the U.S. who have been a part of Audits in their communities.

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If you are not an OVW grantee, go to the Order form

This new guide for coordinated community response (CCR) and Audit teams will help you identify gaps in safety in your criminal justice system response to battered women and their children. All practitioners charged with intervening in cases of battering—from law enforcement officers to advocates to child protection workers—are organized by guidelines, report-writing formats, intake forms, and policies so that they do their jobs with relative consistency. To enhance safety for battered women and their children, a CCR team can examine the gaps between the safety needs of battered women and how an institution has organized its workers, through "text", to respond to domestic assaults.

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This drama production on intervening in domestic violence cases involving children is a tool for grantees to use locally. You get a script, video, audio CDs, production guide for actors and directors and discussion guide. You can produce the play yourself, or you can use your rural training funds to bring Praxis actors to your area. Contact liz@praxisinternational.org or call 218-525-0487 x 252 for more information.

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This public awareness campaign was developed by an inter-tribal group of rural grantees. We brought together our diverse experiences and identities to develop materials that incorporate our thinking, values and beliefs. The campaign is intended to reach Tribal Nations, Alaskan Natives and Native Hawaiians across the United States. We believe the positive message will inspire Native and non-Native alike to create positive responses to ending violence against women.

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Our Hope (child) – Our children carry the lessons from our ancestors and hopes for our future
Our Strength (woman) – She walks with strength and power
Our Tradition (man) – He walks with truth, integrity and honor
Our Pride (community) – Our community carries the vision of our ancestors and the teachings of our elders

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Written guide on raising awareness and creating community dialogue
4 posters
CD with camera-ready materials, formatted for PC compatibility and professional printers, to print three sizes of four color posters
CD with 4 broadcast quality radio PSAs

This public awareness campaign includes visual and audio aids that can be used as awareness and advocacy tools in your work with rural Black women who are battered. The materials are intended for organizations that are developing or have developed Black advocacy programs, have specific training for advocates who work with Black battered women, or are working with established Black community organizations.

Campaign Components
Guidebook
CD broadcast-quality and camera-ready materials

15-second radio PSA
30-second radio PSA
60-second radio PSA
Poster Like a Queen (8.5 x 11)
Poster Love Shouldn’t Hurt (8.5 x 11)

This advocacy information packet includes a DVD training video and written materials that focus on teen dating violence intervention and prevention strategies. It is a summary of a one-day rural grantee training and an in-depth interview with Carole Sousa, national expert on teen dating violence. Use it to:

raise awareness in your community
train new staff and volunteers
enhance your intervention and prevention strategies when advocating for teen victims, youth at risk, and adolescent perpetrators
inform your community about the advocacy needs of teen victims
assist advocates in mentoring and preparing youth - both male and female - to organize for social change
help advocates think through and develop strategies that involve youth in working to change the social climate around violence against young women
help advocates organize youth and community members to change school policies on teen dating violence.

Information compiled in this brochure comes from conversations with women and children who have survived battering and who were willing to share their experiences. Their experiences contribute to current research that demonstrates that tactics used by a batterer not only harms women, it harms children, and it harms the mother-child relationship.

This brochure is designed to:

Help friends and family understand what battered women and children experience when living with a batterer
Provide insights about how responses from friends and family either hurt or help battered women and children and offers suggestions for helpful responses
Help friends and family understand what they can say or do to help repair the harm caused by a battering father or step-father
Help friends and family understand how they can prevent or minimize the harm and ease the grief and loss many children carry into adulthood as a result of living with a batterer’s violence.

This guides experienced battered women's advocates on providing advocacy in rural areas for women who have been prostituted. It helps advocates understand what prostitution looks like in rural areas, what prostituted women need, and how shelters and advocacy programs can best advocate for them. It provides information on the specific needs of prostituted women and directs advocates to additional resources for women.

Social change movements are characterized by extreme dedication, commitment and hard work by organizers and workers. This series of interviews and discussion pieces, designed by and for rural grantees, offers insights and strategies to people organizing in rural areas on issues of violence against women. The DVD and discussion guide serves to inspire advocates and community leaders with the innovations used effectively by other seasoned rural organizers.

The Crossroads Program is a program intended for victims of ongoing domestic abuse who are charged with criminal offenses against their partners. It is designed to provide participants an opportunity to address violence within the larger context of their victimization. It seeks to hold the participants accountable without invoking the full ramifications of the criminal court process.

The goal of this campaign is to motivate rural community members to take action if they know, or even suspect, that a woman is being abused. As people living in many different rural communities, we share the common value of offering help to neighbors and family members when they face troubles—yet we pause in acting on this value when the trouble is a woman being abused. When the barn is hit by lightning and burns to the ground, as neighbors we all pitch in and help build a new barn. When one family doesn’t have much food to feed their children, as extended family members we drop off meals. It’s natural to help a neighbor or family member. But when we see how the woman across the way is treated by her husband, or we see the bruises on our auntie’s or sister’s arms, we often don’t do anything or we say very little. It’s hard to know what to do. With this campaign, we hope to encourage all of us—as neighbors and family members—to call a local number to get some information and support for taking action to help any woman who is being abused.

Campaign Components

* Written guide
* Posters (English and Spanish)
* Broadcast quality TV and radio PSAs
* Newspaper commentaries

This packet includes four CDs and written materials designed to assist advocates in organizing tribal leadership around safety for women who are being battered. The written materials are designed to provide advocates with strategies and tools to:

assist in restoring women to their pre-colonization status as sacred and valued leaders,
enhance your intervention and prevention strategies on behalf of children and women who are being battered,
inform your community about the advocacy needs and challenges for victims of battering, and
help advocates to work with Tribal leadership and the community to develop strategies to change responses and the social climate around violence against Native women.