A Tribute to Susan Schechter

The Visions and Stuggles of the Battered Women's Movement

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Advocacy in a Coordinated Community Response

Overview and Highlights of Three Programs

Rose Thelen, Gender Violence Institute, for BWJP

This article gives an overview of advocacy - namely individual advocacy and systems advocacy - and describes them as an integral part of a community response to domestic violence. It also stresses the importance of each type of advocacy working collectively in enabling battered women to overcome obstacles.

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El Paso County, Colorado Institutional Safety and Accountability Audit Report

A Project of the El Paso County Greenbook Project

Contributors: Audit Team Members (see Acknowledgements);Audit Coordinator Lisa Tessarowicz; Project Director Amber Ptak, and BWJP Consultant Rhonda Martinson

A multi-disciplinary team in El Paso County, Colorado mapped their domestic violence prosecution system, conducted focus groups of battered women, interviewed numerous practitioners, observed domestic violence court appearances and reviewed prosecution files to determine what information/factors influence prosecutorial decision-making and case disposition in misdemeanor domestic violence cases, as they related to adult/child victim safety and offender accountability. Four themes in victim safety and offender accountability were discovered; These themes and recommendations to address them are set forth in this report.

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Intimate and Caregiver Violence Against Women with Disabilities

Patricia E. Erwin

At the intersection of disability and domestic violence is a population of women that has been rendered invisible by a lack of services in the battered women's movement and a lack of recognition of violence in their lives by disability services providers.

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Reducing Language Barriers To Combating Domestic Violence

The Requirements Of Title VI

Carolyn Ham

In addition to the usual obstacles to leaving a violent relationship, battered immigrant women face a host of additional issues such as fears about being deported, loss of legal immigration status and cultural barriers to leaving their spouses. But perhaps the most daunting barrier can be their inability to speak and read English.

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Safety and Accountability Audit Report

Freeborn County, Minnesota

Kristine Lizdas and Rhonda Martinson, BWJP

This is the report from the first phase of the Freeborn County Safety and Accountability Audit. It explores Freeborn County's dispatch and law enforcement response to domestic violence calls.

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Women of Color Resource Center

The Women of Color Resource Center promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well-being of women and girls of color in the United States.

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