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Building the Rythm of Change: Developing Leadership and Improving Services within the Battered Rural Immigrant Women's Community (pdf)

"This manual provides suggestions and guidance on how to organize a similar project aimed at improving services and eliminating barriers to safety for battered immigrant women by empowering the women."

The Impact of Violence in the Lives of Working Women: Creating Solutions - Creating Change (pdf)

This publication is a corporate handbook designed by NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund to help employers effectively address the issue of violence against women with creative and inexpensive solutions. This guide explains key pertinent legal issues and suggests ways employers can develop strategies for dealing with violence-related issues.

Advocacy Beyond Leaving (pdf)

"This Guide offers practical suggestions to assist advocates working day to day with victims. Using the familiar and concrete framework of woman-defined advocacy, the Guide explains advocates’ important role in safety planning when victims are in contact with current or former partners."

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This web site is a cooperative project of the Office on Violence Against Women and the Minnesota Center Against Violence & Abuse at the University of Minnesota. It is supported by grant number 2008-TA-AX-K058 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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