Products

A number of these resources are provided free to new federal Office on Violence Against Women Rural grantees. Scroll down to the bottom of this page for resources available as free downloads.

*Prices effective June 1, 2009
DVD/CD The Story of Rachel		Item #1a DVD or Item #1b CD	$49

This dramatic 4-minute training tool depicts the events set in motion by one battered woman' s call to 911: from the criminal court case, to the child protection investigation, to a protection-order petition, to a visitation center visit, to her ultimate eviction. It is a powerful illustration of the complex relationship between battered women and the systems they turn to for help.

"We used “Rachel’s Story” at a community meeting today. In four minutes, it simply and powerfully conveys what it would take any of us months to do as eloquently!" (Advocacy program)

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Essential Skills in Coordinating Your Community Response to Battering: An E-Learning Course
for CCR Coordinators
E-learning Course

Item #2a (high speed version)
Item #2b (CD-ROM/low speed version)

$49

An innovative online learning course that you can complete at your own pace teaches you key steps in effective coordination and essential skills in how to: access national resources, talk with battered women to inform your thinking and frame core safety issues, analyze case files, talk with practitioners to benefit from their expertise, and facilitate a constructive interagency meeting.

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.

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…”

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Praxis Audit Toolkit
Manual

*Each additional copy $100

Item #3

First toolkit $250

This manual 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.

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The Safety and Accountability Audit Informational Video
DVD

*or free to grantees of the Office on Violence Against Women

Item #4

$6*

This 14-minute presentation 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. To request a free copy, email info@praxisinternational.org.

Text Analysis as a Tool for a Coordinated Community Response:
Keeping Safety for Battered Women and their Children at the Center
Manual

Item #5

$49

All practitioners charged with intervening in cases of battering are organized by guidelines, report-writing formats, intake forms, and policies so that they do their jobs with relative consistency. This 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 by analyzing the "text" that institutions rely on for case processing.

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Will You Hold My Child...?
Training Package

Item #6

$65

This drama production on intervening in domestic violence cases involving children is a tool for grantees to use locally. The package comes with 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 OVW training funds to bring Praxis actors to your area. For more information, contact liz@praxisinternational.org or call 218-525-0487 x 252 for more information.

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it is time to dance...
Public Awareness Campaign

Item #7

$45

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.

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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:

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

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Take A Stand
Public Awareness Campaign

Item #8

$40

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.

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Campaign Components:

Guidebook
CD broadcast-quality and camera-ready materials
- 15, 30 and 60-second radio PSAs
- Poster Like a Queen (8.5 x 11)
- Poster Love Shouldn’t Hurt (8.5 x 11)

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Teen Dating Violence: Prevention and Intervention Strategies
Packet

Item #9

$25

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.

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Repairing the Harm: How Family & Friends Can Help Battered Mothers and Their Children
Booklet and CD

Item #10

$15

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.

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From the Ground Up; Strategies for Organizing
in Rural Communities
Guide/DVD

Item #12

$15

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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At a Crossroads:Developing a Prosecution Response to Battered Women Who Fight Back
Manual

Item #13

$30

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

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It’s hard to know what to do
Rural Public Awareness Campaign

Item #14

$95

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.

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Spanish Version

Campaign Components

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

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FREE RESOURCES

Advocacy on Behalf of Women Used in Prostitution; A Handbook for Rural Advocates Handbook
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. Download resource (1 MB)