TIPS AND TOOLS

Media CAT Case Study
This case study tells the story of how a small CAT's efforts to challenge sexist and degrading images of women in advertising eventually led to national media coverage.

This Offends Me
This template can be used to create postcards for community residents to present to local businesses, national corporations, or advertisers that use degrading or violent messages to sell products and services.

Community Responses to Acts of Injustice
This set of tips illustrates how to use a local news event as the basis for hosting a violence awareness forum for community residents.

Tips on Attracting Publicity
This set of tips highlights options for getting information out to community members, allies and media representatives.

Fact Sheet and Press Release
These press materials developed by a community policing team provide an example of how to use program successes to garner media attention.

Working with the Media
This set of tips and tools for creating publicity materials for newspapers, radio and television programs reflect the years of media experience of members of the Domestic Violence Awareness Month Committee.

Equality Day Flyer
This sample flyer provides an example of a CAT partnering with another local organization to host a discussion of women's rights.