Material Listing

The briefing also inclues a survey that explores some of the factors that impact service delivery.

This manual outlines procedures that human service professionals can follow when they are facing clients living with both domestic violence and substance abuse, and provides guidance for forging collaborations between agencies.

Contents include:

• Building A Bridge from Substance Abuse to Safety for Battered Women by Patricia J. Bland, M.A. CCDC
• A Power and Control Model for Women's Substance Abuse by Marie T. O'Neil
• Resources
• And, Now What? Developing Strategies for Safety and Sobriety

"Communities Engaged in Resisting Violence is part of a growing movement in Chicago of community-based initiatives seeking to resist violence against women, to create community accountability for the perpetuation of violence, and to develop strategies to end violence and the oppressive systems that support it. While the women's anti-violence movement has made many inroads in the past 35-40 years, the groups and initiatives in this report are rejuvenating the movement, and taking the work in exciting new directions.

Appendix 1 of this document offers a list of sixty-three "methodological potholes" and advice or remedies for each one.