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This Conversation Guide is designed to help you increase your staff's ability to support survivors when trauma affects interaction and communication.

Gender Analysis is a tool that empowers individuals and communities to identify and understand how differently gendered people are affected by systems of power in cultural, economic, social, civil, legal, political, religious, racial, and ethnic situations. Why does the National Council of Churches support gender analysis? As an ecumenical movement, we join together in acts of radical love, healing, and justice-making with hope for equity, wholeness, and abundant life for all.

This webinar will guide clergy and faith based leaders on how to effectively preach about domestic violence in their faith communities.

"There are so many reasons why we preachers do not preach about violence against women and girls. The main reason is that we are afraid. We don't want to say the wrong thing or scare anyone away or offend anyone. So instead we just say nothing...We hope that someone else will preach about it." -Elizabeth J.A. Siwo-Okundi, during the 16 Days of Activism.

This guide for purchase is geared toward providing advocates strategies and suggestions for effective collaborations with religious communities. This guide is designed to: Educate advocates about how to work effectively with women from a wide variety of religious and spiritual traditions; Offer concrete strategies for making domestic violence programs sensitive and welcoming to women from diverse faith backgrounds; and Provide suggestions for effective collaboration between domestic violence programs and religious communities.

Through the stories of six abused women and expert information from Jewish, Roman Catholic and Protestant leaders, Broken Vows addresses how religious teachings have been misused to perpetuate abuse and how religious communities can work proactively to end domestic violence.