Generating Resources for Battered Women via Community Empowerment

This issue of the BCS newsletter profiles the community organizing and community-based organization (CBO) capacity building approach of the Community Empowerment Program (CEP) of CONNECT, Inc. of New York City. The main article describes CEP's method of community research, organizational relationship building, and linking and network facilitation of neighborhood organizations. Lessons learned are highlighted. The newsletter also includes a listing for how to get more information about CONNECT, Inc. and related policy and practice guidance offered in the "Early Childhood, Domestic Violence, and Poverty: Helping Young Children and Their Families" paper series, Susan Schechter, Project Director and Series Editor.

This newsletter is published as part of the Building Comprehensive Solutions to Domestic Violence initiative, a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence.