Materials

Handbook
Domestic Violence Handbook and Training Guide for Patrol Deputies

One of the few rural resources of its kind, this handbook was written for deputies in the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, Minnesota. It is a guide to the implementation of new domestic violence policies developed as a result of a Domestic Violence Safety & Accountability Audit conducted in 1998.

Booklet
Organizing With Passion: Domestic Violence Organizing Strategies
Building relationships of Trust with Compassion, Honesty and Creativity
Asian & Pacific Islander Women and Family Safety Center

A handbook written for Praxis International to be distributed to rural grantees receiving funding from the Office on Violence Against Women.The handbook covers key community organizing principles and strategies.It focuses on building relationships with, and reaching out to, the Samoan, Cambodian, Latino and Native American communities. Also included are methods for working within smaller, isolated areas including use of "Natural Helpers," an organizing model that educates community members that battered women naturally come into contact with to be bridges to services for women. Also highlighted is a rural grantee organizing effort in Florida to reach battered women of color.

Packet
Safety Evaluation for Battered Women

Creating safety for a woman who has been the victim of battering is a complex under taking. Most advocates, and many other interveners in cases where domestic violence has occurred, are trained in and deeply familiar with conducting face-to-face risk assessments with individual battered women. However, if we limit our analysis to the safety of one woman at a time, we miss valuable opportunities for examining how women's safety can be taken up by and woven into every level of our work--from community organizing to program evaluation. This packet of resources was compiled in order to guide us--as advocates, systems practitioners,or policymakers--in our thinking about what the safety of women means in our community by broadening our perspective on safety evaluation for battered women and their children.

www.theduluthmodel.org to purchase the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project's companion manual

Curriculum/Video
Creando un Proceso De Cambio para Hombres que Maltratan
Poder y Control: Tácticas de Hombres que Maltratan
Tácticas de Control: La Visión de la Mujer

We adapted the Duluth curriculum Creating a Process of Change for Men Who Batter for use by programs working with Spanish-speaking men who batter. This includes translation of key components of the curriculum but also new video vignettes by and for Latinos. Especially exciting is the new video Tácticas de Control: La Visión de la Mujer (Tactics of Control: A Woman's Perspective) which can also be used in women's groups. Note: you must complete a Duluth curriculum training to purchase this resource. Visit http://www.duluth-model.org to see a training schedule.

Public Awareness Campaign
it is time to dance....

This public awareness campaign was developed by an inter-tribal group of rural advocacy programs. 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.

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

Campaign Components:

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 advocacy programs specifically for Black battered women, have specific training for advocates who work with Black battered women, or are working with established Black community organizations.

Campaign components:

This packet includes a DVD and written materials that focus on teen dating violence intervention and prevention strategies. It includes 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, assist advocates in mentoring and preparing youth 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.

This brochure will 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, help friends and family understand what they can say or do to help repair the harm caused by a battering father or step-father. The information and suggestions compiled in this brochure come from conversations with women and children who have survived battering and who were willing to share their experiences.

This handbook 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 also 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.

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As people living in diverse rural communities, we share the common value of offering help to neighbors and family members when they face troubles. When the barn is hit by lightning and burns to the ground, as neighbors we all pitch in and help build a new barn. 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:

This packet includes materials to assist advocates in organizing tribal leadership around safety for women who are being battered. It provides advocates with strategies and tools to assist in restoring women to their pre-colonization status as sacred and valued leaders, enhance 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.