Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Innovative Strategies
The Community Engagement Continuumdocuments a range of innovative community based approaches in the anti-violence movement and clarifies the goals of engagement. The four points on the continuum – outreach and education, mobilization, organizing, and accountability –...
Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Innovative Strategies
This training curriculum is based the report, Outreach, Mobilization, Organizing and Accountability to Address Violence Against Women in Asian & Pacific Islander Communities. Trainers should familiarize themselves with the report before using this training...
Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Innovative Strategies
This project, conceptualized by Mimi Kim, is an attempt to document the accomplishments and limitations of the API movement to resist violence against women. It goes beyond narrow notions of cultural competence and language accessibility to examine the underlying...
Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Innovative Strategies
Community accountability for abusers as a complement or alternative to the criminal legal system is an area of great promise as well as challenge. Accountability strategies could be contained within community-based organizations or led by them with the collaboration...
Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
In 2005, the Hmong Women’s Action Team (HWAT) began its Dialogues Project to re-engage Hmong women in conversation about their future. This document offers some background information, describes the challenges and obstacles Hmong face addressing sexism, and identifies...
Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Innovative Strategies
Outreach and intervention strategies by Asian and Pacific Islander (API) advocates have arisen as accommodations and alternatives to non-API domestic violence programs. Innovative strategies have been crafted out of necessity and by vision and intention. The ideas...
Abusive International Marriage, Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Gender-Based Violence
“Survivors are here to teach us, so their story becomes our story.” Hmong women working in domestic violence programs organized a series of meetings to understand the trends and issues in international marriages and to explore possible actions to address...
Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
This skit is easy to stage and engages any audience. It shows what a difference a friend, a parent, a child, a professional, or a community can make, and contrasts victim-blaming with empowerment. Riwa’s story raises awareness about gender expectations by women...
Abusive International Marriage, Community Organizing, Culturally-Specific Advocacy
Building Our Future (BOF) is a community campaign created by community change agents, movement builders, and advocates to end domestic violence and abusive international marriages/relationships in the Hmong community. October 25th was chosen as the Day of Action for...
