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As public recognition of domestic violence and sexual assault has reached increasing heights, there has been an outcry for more effective prevention programs. This paper looks at these prevention programs.

This resource guide describes a five-phased process of community mobilization, using five key strategies and participatory activities. The goal is to help organizations develop and implement a domestic violence project in their communities. Included here are full color examples of communication materials, a comprehensive community activism course, and planning, monitoring, and documentation tools.

These presentation transcriptions discuss violence against women and the impact of culture.

This resource addresses ways in which service providers can get involved with developing public policy without violating nonprofit lobbying regulations.

Features conversations with eighteen outstanding women leaders that describe their visions, explain their perspectives on coalition building and leadership, and address fundamental questions on how to challenge power and accountability.

This document lists questions to help guide an analysis of reforms and is based on Susan Schechter’s Women and Male Violence (1982).

This work comes from dialogue of 49 people on the changing political context for social change work. Four key themes are covered: engagement in advocacy; issue-based struggle or struggle-based issue; who's who in advocacy; and how to assess success.

This document provides an overview of how to conceptualize and carry out program evaluation in domestic violence organizations. The authors include a discussion of how to design appropriate outcomes and collect data.

Features articles about the FVO advocacy efforts of the KS Coalition; the anti-poverty public policy initiatives underway at the AZ Coalition; and an economic literacy curriculum for adult women called Personal Economic Planning.

Describes the process of Wisconsin domestic violence advocates to assess how well their programs and procedures were meeting the needs of battered women and their children. A Building Comprehensive Solutions to Domestic Violence project publication.

This paper uses examples from the child welfare system to raise questions about the limitations of current DV advocacy strategies for low-income women. The paper challenges the U.S. traditional battered women's movement to expand its solutions.

This is a skill-building curriculum in negotiation, collaborative mindset, strategic thinking, and meeting facilitation. It is the third of three interrelated training curricula developed for staff of grassroots domestic violence organizations.