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Last Updated 04/15/04

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Announcing a new workshop series: "Enhancing Collaboration: Responding to and Preventing Domestic Violence in California" - A Workshop for Domestic Violence Advocates and Faith Community Leaders. These workshops, held in communities throughout California, are based on the newly created curriculum developed by TC-TAT, with guidance from the FaithTrust Institute, and are conducted by graduates of TC-TAT's Training of Trainers Program. To find out more about these workshops, including dates and locations, click here.

Domestic Violence Expert Witnesses/Consultants
Contact information for Expert Witnesses/Consultants throughout California who can be utilized in court to advise Judges and/or Juries regarding Domestic Violence.
What Is An Expert Witness?

Creating Access: Serving Survivors of Sexual Assault with Disabilities

Image of Creating AccessThis packet includes information and training materials designed to help sexual assault and domestic violence programs become better informed about disability issues, terms, history and resources.

Kid & Teen Safe: An Abuse Prevention Program for Youth with Disabilities

Image of Kids Teens SafeThis document describes a special school-based program for addressing abuse and violence against children and teens with disabilities designed by the SafePlace Disability Services ASAP project.

Abuse and Women with Disabilities (article)

Image of Abuse and Women with DisabilitiesThis article reviews highlights from research studies on abuse of women with disabilities and offers recommendations for making programs more accessible.

New Links for Domestic Violence Prevention

The National Women's Alliance
www.nwaforchange.org/home.html

Women with DisAbilities/ National Women's Health Information Center U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
www.4woman.gov/wwd

DisAbled Women's Network (DAWN) Ontario
http://dawn.thot.net/

Disability, Abuse and Personal Rights Project
http://disability-abuse.com

Center for Research on Women with Disabilities (CROWD)
www.bcm.tmc.edu/crowd

  TC-TAT announces...
The newly updated “Snapshots: A Picture of California’s Domestic Violence Prevention Services for Underserved Communities” highlights innovative programs in California that are transforming communities by integrating domestic violence prevention into unserved and underserved communities. Snapshots contains introductory information for a total of sixty-five different programs in California. The programs vary in size, scope, history and strategy. Some have articulated service models, while others are adapting program strategies to meet the needs of a community they serve. This updated version of Snapshots provides a view of the progress being made to end domestic violence in our multicultural state.
Download This Free Resource

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. Throughout, you will find worksheets, exercises, examples, and tips to help you develop a media advocacy campaign.

TC-TAT announces new Spanish Selections from our popular How to Facilitate a Community Action Team (CAT) Handbook. These translated CAT pieces can be downloaded and used by Domestic Violence Organization staff and volunteers, community activists and community educators in their work to transform communities by creating safety, equality and justice for all community members.

TC-TAT announces the Poster Gallery, a wide range of posters displaying a variety of messages and images, all serving to educate and/or bring awareness regarding domestic violence prevention.

TC-TAT announces INSTIGATE!, a free online toolkit for starting a community action team. Let INSTIGATE! open doors to new resources and opportunities to create change in your community.

New Bibliographies

Recommended Reading presents bibliographies of screened material by topic or audience. Some files are Adobe Acrobat files which require a plugin.

Selected Resources for DV Advocates & Faith Communities

Relationship Abuse and Disability: Selected Resources

Domestic Violence Community Policing Resources

Organizing to End Domestic Violence in Culturally Diverse Communities

Youth Relationship Violence

Media Advocacy to Prevent Domestic Violence

Talking to Men and Boys About Men's Violence Against Women