Ending Domestic Violence Creating Social Change

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Primary Prevention


Toolkit to End Violence Against Women

-- To provide concrete guidance to communities, policy leaders, and individuals engaged in activities to end violence against women.

Illinois Center for Violence Prevention
-- The only statewide nonprofit in the nation working to end violence across the lifespan

Tools for Change
-- Tools for Change Educator’s Website: a comprehensive listing of resources that promote healthy, equal relationships, reviewed and critiqued using a strengths-based model.

Prevention Institute
-- Prevention Institute is a non-profit national center dedicated to improving community health and well-being by building momentum for effective primary prevention. Primary prevention means taking action to build resilience and to prevent problems before they occur.

Close to Home
--Close to Home’s mission is to foster community-wide responsibility to prevent and reduce the impact of domestic violence. We are building and supporting networks of community residents and organizations in local neighborhoods that want to take action and address the problem of domestic violence together.

National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
--A Federal resource for communities working to prevent violence committed by and against young people.

Prevention Connection
--A project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Provide ongoing training in the form of webinars that anyone can join. Also have an excellent wiki.

Family Violence Prevention Fund
--The Family Violence Prevention Fund works to prevent violence within the home, and in the community, to help those whose lives are devastated by violence because everyone has the right to live free of violence.

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
-- INCITE! is a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and our communities through direct action, critical dialogue, and grassroots organizing.

Transforming Communities
-- As a learning center for the development and application of interlocking strategies, TC seeks to change the prevailing knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that support violence against women and other forms of abuse as a social and individual norm.

Chicago Foundation for Women: What Will it Take?
--Somebody has to be asking more questions about violence against women and girls. So, we reached out to a wide audience of people who haven’t always understood that they can do something—violence is everyone’s issue.

Violent Language
--Violent phrases used in everyday speech, which illustrate the pervasiveness of violence in our culture


Tools for Getting Men/Boys Involved


10 Reasons for Working With Men and Boys

-- Explanation of the rationale for working with men and boys. Includes reflection questions and an exercise.

The 7 P's of Men's Violence
-- This article by Michael Kaufman describes the ways in which society accepts violence against women. Includes tips for men and women to stop the cycle.


XY: Men, Masculinities, and Gender Politics
-- XY is a Web site focused on men, masculinities, and gender politics. XY is a space for the exploration of issues of men's gender and sexuality, the daily issues of men's and women's lives, and practical discussion of personal and social change.

Men Ending Rape
-- Committed to ending rape by encouraging men to play a significant role in ending the perpetuation of a campus rape culture.

Men Stopping Violence
-- Men Stopping Violence is a social change organization dedicated to ending men's violence against women.

The White Ribbon Campaign
--Educating men about the effects and consequences of violence against women.

A Call to Men
-- A Call To Men is a leading national men's organization addressing men's violence against women, and the eradication of sexism, while maintaining strong coalitions with women's organizations already doing this important work.

Jackson Katz
--A leading anti-violence educator

Coaching Boys into Men
-- The boys in your life need your time and energy. Your son, grandson, nephew, younger brother. The boys you teach, coach and mentor. All need you to help them grow into healthy young men.


Tools for Women and Girls


Third Wave Foundation

-- Third Wave is a feminist, activist foundation that works nationally to support young women and transgender youth ages 15 to 30.

Women & Girls Collective Action Network

-- The Women & Girls Collective Action Network is a center for consciousness-raising, training, dialogue and action around issues that matter to women and girls.

Sistas on the Rise
-- Sistas on the Rise is a space for young women of color ages 13-21, to take ownership and power over their lives and create a healthy community.

The Center for Young Women's Development
--Our mission is to empower and inspire young women who have been involved with the juvenile justice system and/or the underground street economy to create positive change in their lives and communities.

Young Women's Action Team

-- The YWAT has emerged into a youth-led, adult-supported social change project that empowers young women under 21 years old to take action on issues that affect their lives (particularly issues of violence against girls and young women).

Redstockings
-- Redstockings today is a new kind of grassroots, activist "think tank", established by movement veterans, for defending and advancing the women's liberation agenda.


 

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