Community Organizing / Mobilization / Engagement Content Topic Results
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January 2003
Mobilizing Communities to Prevent Domestic Violence: A Resource Guide for Organizations in East and Southern Africa
Publisher(s):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.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 2003
Making Allies, Making Friends
This curriculum provides over 30 classroom sessions to help young people build healthy multi-cultural communities and prevent violence.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
January 2003
Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
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.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
January 2003
A Practical Guide to Evaluating Domestic Violence Coordinating Councils
Publisher(s):This is a manual that provides practical strategies for the evaluation of domestic violence coordinating councils, task forces and committees in order to make the process of evaluation easier.
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- General Material
January 2003
The Social Norms Approach to Violence Prevention
Publisher(s):Describes an approach that seeks to engage men as allies by creating campaign messages that validate men's hidden feelings and beliefs in order to foster an environment where speaking out against violence against women is socially acceptable
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- General Material
April 2002
Campus Stalking
Publisher(s):Highlights issues and suggests practical options for responding to stalking incidents that occur in college and university campus communities. Includes a review of the history, definitions, and statistics related to stalking, offering useful resources.
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- General Material
January 2002
Exploring the Differences between Discussion, Debate, and Dialogue
Publisher(s):This chart outlines key differences between "discussion," "debate," and "dialogue." It also offers some key questions for reflection about about engaging in meaningful dialogue.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 2002
Domestic Violence: What Churches Can Do
Publisher(s): This one-hour program for use in Christian education offers basic information on domestic violence, as well as concrete ideas about how congregations can become involved in prevention and can offer a safe space for battered women.
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- General Material
July 2001
The Politics of the Disability Rights Movement
This article offers a brief history of the disability rights movement and discusses the need for a counter-hegemonic politics of disability liberation.
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- General Material
January 2001
Gauging Progress A Guidebook For Community Sexual Assault Programs and Community Development Initiatives
In an easy-to-read format with examples and exercises, this guidebook is intended to lay the groundwork for thinking about how to gauge progress, with an emphasis on how to conceptualize evaluation of a community development initiative.
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- General Material
January 2001
A Lifetime Commitment to Violence Prevention: The Alameda County Blueprint
Publisher(s):This Blueprint is a framework to identify the range of roles and partnerships in which stakeholders can engage and activities that will prevent violence in all its forms, including child and elder abuse, intimate partner violence, date rape and sexual assault, suicide, youth and community violence, and hate violence.
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- General Material
November 2000
Cultural Issues Affecting Domestic Violence Service Utilization in Ethnic and Hard to Reach Populations
This comprehensive report describes different cultural issues that may affect how different populations can and do use domestic violence services.









