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  1. Mail: print an order form and mail with credit card information or with a check payable to "Marin Abused Women's Services"
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Adult CAT Facilitator’s Manual

This curriculum has been designed for domestic violence advocates who want to train and support adult members of their community to take action to end domestic violence. The Community Action Team (CAT) Facilitator’s Manual contains a detailed curriculum, handouts, and background material for conducting a 10-12 week training for your Community Action Team to learn about domestic violence and create action plans for addressing it in your community.

Note: This manual is sold as a downloadable document. Upon completion of your order, a link to the full document will be sent to the e-mail address specified on your order form.

302 pages

$12.00

Teen CAT Facilitator’s Manual

This curriculum has been designed for domestic violence advocates who want to train and support teen members of their community to take action to end domestic violence. The Community Action Team (CAT) Facilitator’s Manual contains a detailed curriculum, handouts, and background material for conducting a 12-week training for your Community Action Team to learn about domestic violence and create action plans for addressing it in your community.

Note: This manual is sold as a downloadable document. Upon completion of your order, a link to the full document will be sent to the e-mail address specified on your order form.

319 pages

$12.00

Media Advocacy Planning Guide

The Media Advocacy Planning Guide gives you tools to expand your use of the media in advocating for policies against domestic violence and eliminating the social norms that support it. The guide will give you techniques you can use in your local community to:

  • Influence public opinion through the media;
  • Attract and shape news coverage; and
  • Use the media to mobilize your community.
You'll also find tips and techniques for using the media overall, whether your purpose is to foster individual behavior change or shifts in the social environment. Throughout, you will find worksheets, exercises, examples, and tips to help you develop a media advocacy campaign.

137 pages

$35.00

Multicultural Alliance Building

This publication discusses the rewards and challenges of developing collaborative, multicultural efforts to end domestic violence, and provides practical steps designed to help partners make their alliance work.

$5.00

An Evaluation Handbook for Community Mobilization:
Evaluating Domestic Violence Activism

This handbook offers clear, practical steps for charting the course of a community action campaign from early planning stages through final results reporting. Ideas for linking evaluation with prevention theory, campaign planning exercises, tips for collecting and analyzing data, and sample surveys and assessment tools are laid out in easy-to-read chapters.

$35.00

The TC Organizing Kit

The Kit contains six sections with specific tools, forms, ideas, and examples to support the design and implementation of community mobilization strategies. The TC Organizing Kit includes sample fact sheets, sample community attitude surveys, media advocacy tools, planning tools for community groups, and case studies of successful activist groups.

60 pages

$10.00

Community Action Team Handbook

"How to Facilitate Community Action Teams" is a practical guide for domestic violence organizations on facilitating volunteer activists to address violence against women and girls. (New appendices and exercises added in the 2000 edition.)

54 pages

$10.00

"Beyond Awareness To Action:
 
Ending Abuse of Women"

This 23-minute video, narrated by Irene Cara, presents examples of how to take action to end violence against women. Includes brief study guide.

$30.00

"abuse- NO WAY!"

 

This 20-minute video and study guide, by and for high school students, explores things youth can do to prevent relationship violence.

$40.00
49% Poster
This poster shows four proud teenage boys of varying ethnicities wearing football jerseys, posing for a high school yearbook picture with their teammates. The backdrop color is an army green and the text is written in white with black outline: "Americans believe that 49% of boys will grow up to abuse their girlfriends or wives."


poster size 16 " x 24"
$10.00

Growth Chart

Stereotypical male conditioning for violence is juxtaposed with images of growing boys, creating a high-impact visual to raise awareness.











poster size 8 1/2 " x 28"

$10.00

Awareness + Action = Change
Tee Shirt
Black heavy-weight all-cotton shirt with green message: "Men's violence against women is learned. It can be unlearned. Awareness + Community Action = Change. Get involved!"
Short Sleeve

$15.00

Long Sleeve

$17.00

Transforming Communities Logo
Tee Shirt

Purple logo, showing women moving into action, on a heather-grey tee shirt.

Short Sleeve

$13.00

Long Sleeve

$15.00

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Socialization of Boys
Tee Shirt

A classic nursery rhyme challenges boys' socialization with the message that "Violence is learned, it can be unlearned"

(Women's) Short Sleeve

$15.00
(Men's) Short Sleeve $15.00

Front

Back

What are Little Boys Made of? "Nursery Rhyme"
Tee Shirt

 

Girls Tanktop

$10.00
(Women's) Short Sleeve $15.00
(Men's) Short Sleeve $15.00

TC Buttons:

 

 

"Creating Safety and Justice for Women and Girls"

$1.00
"Men's Violence Against Women is Learned. It can be unlearned." $1.00
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updated 06/25/2002

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