"You can help others because of your experience. Think how your life would have been different if someone had helped you."

Designed for witnesses and survivors of domestic violence, the Person to Person brochure offers guidelines and helpful hints on how to use one's personal experience of abuse as a basis for reaching out to others and raising public awareness. Personal stories and comments from survivors and family members illustrate some of the ways in which friends, neighbors and co-workers can make a difference in the lives of women and children who are being abused. Specific action steps that individuals can take as a friend, neighbor, or parent are interspersed throughout the brochure. These include small but meaningful acts such as inviting a friend you suspect is being abused to talk with you about what's going on, placing safety cards in the employee lounge or restroom at work, encouraging your child's teacher at school to talk about domestic violence with their students in the classroom. The kit includes a sample referral card and "There's No Excuse for Domestic Violence" bumper sticker, along with a form for ordering additional low-cost resource materials. Materials in this kit are suitable for use in communities throughout the United States.

Recommended for adult survivors of domestic violence and for the friends and family members who want to help others gather the strength to leave an abusive relationship.