Ending Domestic Violence Creating Social Change
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.