The Rhode Island Coalition
Against
Domestic Violence - 422 Post Road, Suite 104 Warwich, RI 02888
Tel:(401) 467-9940; FAX: (401) 467-9943
Destiny House, Inc.
- community-based transitional program
established
to address domestic violence in the minority community.
807
Broad Street, Providence, RI 02907
Elizabeth Buffum Chace House, Inc. Serving domestic violence victims in Kent County. 24 hour hotline, shelter, support, advocacy, education, transitional housing. Committed to providing safety/support to women and children. (401) 738-1700
Day One - Sexual Assault and
Trauma Center
of Rhode Island - If you are the victim of sexual assault and
wish
to talk to someone immediately, please call the Helpline at 1-800-494-8100.
This
is also the phone number for the victims of crime helpline, available
to
victims of any crime. Help is available 24 hours a day.
Soujourner House - "Sojourner House embraces respect, compassion, fairness, and equality in carrying out our mission to end domestic violence. It is our conviction that every woman, man, and child has a right to live in an environment free from physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. In the belief that individual empowerment and social change go hand-in-hand, we work toward both. We value strengths inherent in diversity of cultures, lifestyles, and ideas." Serving victims of domestic violence in Rhode Island.
Southeast Asians Against Domestic Violence Program - culturally and linguistically appropriate services to Southeast Asian Victims of Domestic Violence; contact Kim Ly Sao, 941-8422. Part of the Socio-Economic Development Center for Southeast Asians, Inc. 620 Potters Avenue, Providence, RI, 02907.
Town of Warren - women's resource center
Women's Center of Rhode Island Runs 24 hour hotline, shelter and support services for battered and homeless women and their children; provides multilingual public information and workshops on domestic violence. (401) 861.2760
The Women's Resource Center of South County - provides emergency shelter and a comprehensive network of support services to victims of domestic abuse and their children. Services include 24 hour hotline, legal advocacy, children's therapy, support groups, counseling, referrals, and community education. (401) 782.3995
Women's Resource Center of
Newport & Bristol Counties 24 hour crisis
intervention,
emergency shelter, legal advocacy, individual and group counseling for
battered women and their children, teen dating violence program.
(401) 847-2533
RIVPN: The Rhode Island Violence
Prevention Network - including a directory
of violence prevention programs in the state
1-800-799-7233 help line for immigrant women
24 hours a day. Answered in English and Spanish; can connect
to AT&T language line; provides crisis counselling, tries to assist
women in finding safe places
A call to the National Domestic Violence Hotline summons immediate
help
in English or Spanish, 24 hours a day, seven days each week.
Interpreters
are available to translate an additional 139 languages. The Hotline may
be reached toll-free by phone from all 50 states, the District of
Columbia,
Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Crisis intervention helping the caller identify problem and possible
solutions, including making plans for safety in an emergency;
Information
about sources of assistance for individuals and their friends,
families,
and employers wanting to learn more about domestic violence, child
abuse,
sexual assault, intervention programs for batterers, working through
the
criminal justice system, and related issues; and Referrals to
battered
womenís shelters and programs, social service agencies, legal
programs,
and other groups and organizations willing to help.
April 7, 2003: Study
of Domestic Violence by Race, Income in R.I. -
Although
black and Hispanic women comprised 6 percent of Rhode Island's 1990
population,
they represented more than 17 percent of victims in police reports
documenting
domestic violence and sexual assault, according to a
Brown study published in the journal Public Health Reports.
print
/ fiction
please be advised that
many of
these writings are emotionally difficult, as they should be
Flight by
Sherman Alexie, Black Cat, an imprint of Grove / Atlantic, 2007
Bastard out of Carolina a novel by Dorothy Allison, Dutton (New York) Edition 1992.
[Salon magazine interview
with Dorothy Allison]
The Farming of Bones Edwidge Danticat (1998). Historical fiction about the oppression of Haitian immigrants working in the Dominican Republic during the 1930's.
Comfort Woman Nora Okja Keller (1997): Viking Penguin
Devastating account/recollection of the daughter of a Korean woman brutalized as a comfort woman by Japanese soldiers.
The Things they Carried, by Tim O'Brien Broadway Books, NY, 1990
Cited in Judith Herman's (and other) work connecting personal, domestic and war-incuced trauma; an account of Vietnam, also described at Writing Vietnam.
[information about O'Brien]
Oprah's book club - I know. But still: Breath Eyes Memory, by Edwidge Danticat , White Oleander by Janet Fitch, Anna's Quindlen's Black and Blue and other Oprah favorites are sometimes also incredibly well written books; and, if not, compelling for reading, writing and discussion around issues of violence, abuse, and healing.
print /non-fiction:memoir
Fay (1989). Listen to Me: talking survival. Manchester, England: The Gatehouse Project. available through Peppercorn Books & Press, Inc. One woman's account of abuse and healing. Published as part of a community writing project, language is direct and accessible.
I See a Part of Myself : Voices from the Community [no date] by Edami Roa, Basemah Jaber and Ivan Ramirez. Published by the Open Book, Brooklyn, NY; for ordering information, please contact John Gordon at the Open Book.
just lately I realise - stories from West Indian Lives, 1985 Gatehouse Books, available through Peppercorn Books and Press, Inc.
Doiron, Rose. (1987), My name is Rose - New Start Reading Series from East End Literacy Press in Toronto. Adult learner's story of escaping abuse; basic text, illustrated with photos. Available on line and to order in hard copy.
Hoffman, Richard (1997). Half the House: A memoir. Harcourt Brace
Minow, Martha (1999). Between Vengeance and Forgiveness:Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence (Foreword by Judge Richard Goldstone). Read about it here. Minow and Judith Herman sat on a Brown University panel focussing on violence; both have addressed both personal and political trauma and its effects on women, men and children.
Weldon, Michele I Closed my Eyes : Revelations of A Battered Woman Hazelden
Memoir of a woman who leaves an abusive marriage, and the difficult process of leaving, raising her children, dealing with courts and other bureaucracies.
Where do we go from here? Adult lives without literacy, 1983, Gatehouse Books, available through Peppercorn Books and Press, Inc.
Testimony
of Lt.
Mark A. Wynn,
Metropolitan Police Department, Nashville, Tennessee before the House
of
Representatives, April 19, 1993 - Lt. Wynn spoke recently at a
Rhode
Island conference considering the impacts of witnessing violence on
children.
He spoke eloquently of his own history and of the work the Nashville
Police
are doing in addressing issues of domestic violence in their
community.
Please go listen to him speak if you have the opportunity.
[learn more about his work at http://www.markwynn.com. ]
Metro Nashville Police Domestic Abuse resources
print / non-fiction
Inger Agger, Mary Bille (Translator) (1992). The
Blue Room : Trauma and Testimony Among Refugee Women : A
Psycho-Social
Exploration - narrative accounts and insightful analysis of refugee
women's experiences.
A quote from the National Council of Teachers of English website
(NCTE
is the book's publisher), by its editors: "Children who survive . . .
overt
and covert traumas become young adults, and many find their way into
our
classes, where the writing they do about what they have experienced
challenges
our practical, political, and theoretical assumptions about the power,
place, and
purposes of writing."
Pauline B. Bart and Eillen Geil Morgan, Editors. (1993). Violence against women: the bloody footprint Sage Publications
particularly (quickly annotated 11/8):
account of a community college women's studies course taught in rural Minnesota, during which a significant number of students disclosed their own status as survivors/victims of violence, and their response to the course, and
The Politics of Research and Activism by Michelle Fine
Ruth A. Brandwein, Editor. (1999). Battered Women, Children, and Welfare Reform : The Ties That Bind (Sage Series on Violence Against Women), V. 11
Stats, overview of the issues affecting women and their children in economic and emotional stress.
Raoul Felder and Barbara Victor. (1997). Getting away with murder: Weapons for the war against domestic violence. (Touchstone Books). Argues, among other things, for systemic collaboration in protecting victims, including advocating for mandatory reporting and recording of injuries by medical personnel and also arguing for mandatory arrest of perpetrators of domestic violence. Contrasts penalities for 'stranger' violence and those for domestic abuse. Not unproblematic, but worth consideration.
Carpe Diem: The Arts and School Restructuring by Maxine Greene, from Teachers College Record, (summer 1994) in which Greene speaks to the way in which encounters with works of art or aesthetic enactments release the imagination; how being present to engagement with art opens possibilities and "opens us to vision of the possible rather than the predictable.." Greene's use of the concepts of presence and engagement in the context of arts education are also worth considering in terms of abuse, learning and healing. [please note - if you receive a not found message, register at the TCR site (it's free) and view journals from 1994 to access this article].
Isolating the barriers and strategies for prevention: A Kit about Violence and Women's Education for Adult Education and Adult Learners
Teaching as Possibility: A Light in Dark Times by Maxine Greene (with thanks to Matthew Jerzyk for the citation) ".... I view our times as shadowed by violations and erosions taking place around us: the harm being done to children; the eating away of social support systems; the "savage inequalities" in our schools; the spread of violence; the intergroup hatreds; the power of media; the undermining of arts in the lives of the young. And then I think of the "light that some men and women will kindle under almost all circumstances," and that makes me ponder (and sometimes wonder at) the work that is and might be done by teachers at this problematic moment in our history." [from Teaching as Possibility, in Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism & Practice Issue 1 vol.1: Spring 1997 A Publication of Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
Ethel Klein, Jacquelyn Campbell, Esta Soler, Marissa Ghez. (1997). Ending Domestic Violence: Changing public perceptions: halting the epidemic. Sage Publications
Herman, Judith Trauma and Recovery , Basic Books
[excerpts from Trauma and Recovery]
[synposis with links to PTSD resources] Critical resource in understanding the impacts of political and domestic trauma.
Herman, Judith Father Daughter Incest, Harvard University Press
Horsman, Jenny Too Scared to Learn: Women, Violence, and Education (1999: McGilligan Books). To order, call Toronto Women's Book Store at 416-922-8744, contact McGilligan Books in Canada at 416-538-0945, or view ordering information directly here. U.S edition:published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 10 Industrial Avenue, Mahwah New Jersey 07430-2262; e-mail orders@erlbaum.com Toll Free Phone: 1-800-926-6579 <Fax: 201-236-0072; http://www.erlbaum.com.
Jenny Horsman has a website through which she hopes to: create discussion about trauma and learning; make materials on trauma and learning available, and introduce material on women and literacy, and research and practice.
June, 2001 - Jenny Horsman moderated an online discussion around her current paper, Creating Change.in Literacy Programs. Read the paper and the archived conversation.
new reources: 2004
The Impact of Violence on Learning for Youth: What Can We Do? - report focusing on the words of the interviewees, particularly youth—both in and out of school—and what they tell educators and others working in educational programs about what we can do to support learning.
The
Challenge to Create a Safer Learning Environment for Youth -
interviews
informing the report above.
Saskatchewan Literacy Network developed the Saskatchewan Level 2
Drawing the Line Kit to provide literacy workers with the
information
they need about violence and learning, and drawing the line between
tutoring
and counseling. The kit is based on the research, experience, and
writings
of Dr. Jenny Horsman, a community educator and researcher who
has
spent more than two decades in the literacy field. Highlights of
the Drawing the Line Kit include:
Naming the presence of violence, Balancing needs and respecting
boundaries, Bringing the whole person to learning and Taking safety
seriously.
To order from Saskatchewan Literacy Network (form available online).
Lamb, Sharon, (ed) (1999: NYU Press). New Versions of Victims Feminists Struggle with the Concept (with thanks to Ross Cheit for the citation)
It is increasingly difficult to use the word "victim" these days without facing either ridicule for "crying victim" or criticism for supposed harshness toward those traumatized. Some deny the possibility of "recovering" repressed memories of abuse, or consider date rape an invention of whining college students. At the opposite extreme, others contend that women who experience abuse are "survivors" likely destined to be psychically wounded for life. While the debates rage between victims' rights advocates and "backlash" authors, the contributors to New Versions of Victims collectively argue that we must move beyond these polarizations to examine the "victim" as a socially constructed term and to explore, in nuanced terms, why we see victims the way we do. Resisting the reductive oversimplifications of the polemicists, the contributors critique exaggerated claims by victim advocates aboutthe harm of victimization while simultaneously taking on the reactionary boilerplate of writers such as Katie Roiphe and Camille Paglia and offering further strategies for countering the backlash. Written in clear, accessible language, New Versions of Victims offers a critical analysis of popular debates about victimization that will be applicable to both practice and theory.
Luttrell, Wendy . (1997). School-smart and Mother wise: Working-class Women's Identity and Schooling. New York: Routledge. Social analysis of what class and other systemic forms of oppression do to girls' and women's learning in and out of school, interwoven with specific histories of women participating in adult education.
This resource, for educators and activists interested in
anti-violence
work, provides an analysis of the effects of violence and a
practical
collection of ideas and activities, with examples from teachers working
in GED, native language literacy, ABE, ESOL, welfare-to-work,
corrections,
and shelter settings. Educators successfully changed their curriculum
and
learning environment to address impacts of violence on learning. Based
on the foundation of Jenny Horsman’s research, practitioners focused on
well-being and incorporated counseling and creative arts into the
classroom.
Each chapter includes a general introduction, tools for programs, and
teachers
writing about the changes they made.
International Conference on women and literacy, Atlanta, 1999: tapes of Jenny Horsman's keynote speech, a panel and a workshop with Anson Green and Janet Isserlis. on loan from LR/RI
Repetition Compulsion - a film by Ellie Lee; animated silent short film, graphically raising issues inherent in violence, particularly that perpetrated against homeless women. on loan from LR/RI, or to order through First Run/Icarus Films.
Together we Bloom: a documentary video on domestic violence produced by Judy Hofer and women in her Literacy Project class in western Massachusetts. On loan from LR/RI, along with sourcebook, and article in Bright Ideas, Volume 8, Number 4: Together we Bloom: A video project on domestic violence, by Judy Hofer. To order, contact New Readers Press.
from Civic Participation and Community Action Sourcebook Saying What is True: Women Speak Out Against Domestic Violence by Judy Hofer
Vision Quest -
proactive film that addresses the missing / murdered women, those
currently working on the streets, and those in the homeless community
both aboriginal and non aboriginal alike in Vancouver, British
Columbia.
Women Make Movies - catalogue of films to buy or rent, including many that address issues of violence, power and control.
Octaves Beyond Silence - a non-profit organization working to support women survivors of violence, including political and public violence. CD purchases benefit groups working with survivors.
Poems from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
Songs related to abuse and sexual assualt - An annotated list of recorded sources, from traditional ballads to punk, compiled by Gerri Gribi. Part of a larger section of resources online at the open directory's project and its listing of violence and abuse resources.
memoir/online
Silence Speaks -
digital storytelling in support of recovery and violence prevention;
"brings
voices of women and girls of color to the forefront of violence
prevention
and social justice efforts, offers violence survivors, witnesses, and
prevention
advocates the support, skills, and equipment they need to create
original
multimedia pieces of courage and survival. Through community
screenings,
we then use these stories to mobilize local residents and groups to get
involved in prevention."
read about Silence Speaks at Techsoup.org. Thanks to Kath Connolly for find this site.
Bright Ideas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Issues in Adult Education [Volume 9, Number 3 Winter 2000]
[now also available online at http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/pat/SoNmar97/page1.htm]
Marilyn J. Smith, Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services; trasncript of an online interview, November, 2003.
Domestic violence sites in English and Spanish - extensive resource lists/links - including sites focussing on impacts of violence on children; initially compiled by Susan Kopple and Wendy S. Hesford, via Andres Muro, and updated and maintained by Janet Isserlis. [updated, August 3, 2004].
Domestic Violence Project of Santa Clara County - massive site, comprising research, personal accounts, links to stats, agencies, and yet more resources.
Evaluation of the STOP Formula Grants to Combat Violence Against Women (The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 1999 Report)
Abstract [available in HTML], Full report (in .pdf, 761K)
The site provides community resources, Spanish language resources and email connections back to the police department.
Connections: A Journal of Adult Literacy, volume viii, Summer, 1999, including Discourse and Change: Working Through Domestic Violence With Learners, by Anson Green (sidebar: Kate Power).
Domestic Violence and Women's Employment - summary from EPN News, April 1, 1998. "Susan Lloyd, a research affiliate at the Joint Center for Poverty Research, reports the results of The Effects of Violence on Work and Family project, which tests several hypotheses, among them the question of whether women who are experiencing or have in the past experienced domestic violence have lower employment rates or other differences in labor supply relative to women who have not experienced domestic violence." The Electronic Policy Network offers updates weekly of its many sites and links.
Early
sex abuse common among women on welfare - NY Times article
[November
28/99] that some in the fellowship project find overly simplifies
issues
of violence and poverty, but others find reasonably useful for a
mainstream
publication in terms of increasing public awareness about violence and
women.
A License To Abuse: The Impact of
Conditional
Status on Female Immigrants by Michelle J. Anderson; part of the Mail
Order Brides and Abuse of Immigrant Women site; examining impacts
of
battering on immigrant women and their status under US law. This
article was written in 1993, so the law may need to be considered more
closely, but the impact of battering hasn't changed. Other links
on the site and on the Family Violence Prevention site, above, as well
as those listed on the dv resources list
may
be of use in considering referrals for battered immigrant women.
Forced
Bonding or Community Collaboration? : Partnerships between science and
practice in research on woman battering by Jeffrey L. Edleson,
Ph.D.and Andrea L. Bible, M.S.W. - paper exploring "factors
contributing
to successful collaborations between practitioners and researchers
studying
the impact of adult domestic violence and the effectiveness of services
aimed at stopping it. The paper identifies potential challenges to
research
partnerships and, through interviews with the researchers and
practitioners
from four successful collaborations, highlights strategies for
effectively
navigating these challenges. It concludes by arguing that collaborative
partnerships between science and practice communities strengthen the
process
of scientific inquiry and program development."
the Zero - The Hatred of Innocence by Richard Hoffman
jennyhorsman.com -
as indicated above, rich resource and information site from Jenny
Horsman,
author of numerous articles on trauma and learning, including the most
recent, Too Scared to Learn: Women, Violence and Education.
see also Dr, Horsman's comments in I
Cannot Read, a Parade article (February 12, 2006) by Mitch Albom.
National
Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center - one of several
projects focussing on women at Wellesley College. "The Center wil
contribute
to the prevention of all types of violence against women by fostering
researcher-practitioner
and interdisciplinary collaboration. This collaboration and the work of
the Center is designed to improve the capacity of the field to conduct
research that is (1) relevant to the prevention of violence against
women,
(2) interdisciplinary, (3) builds on prior research and practice, (4)
conceptually
and methodologically sound, and (5) designed to address issues of
violence
against women over the life-course and to consider the impact of
potential
racial and cultural differences in risk factors."
Una
Guia en Linea para Trabajadores, Consejeras, Maestros/as, y Otras
- Sugerencias para Ayudar a las Victimas de Violacion, Violencia
Domestica,
y
Abuso Infantil -- both from Women's Justice Center, Santa Rosa, CA
95407
Perspectives on CALL for Project-Based Learning Principles and Opportunities -created by Heide Wrigley, with assistance from Jim Powrie at Aguirre International. The site links principles of language/literacy learning to specific websites through which these principles are demonstrated/can be enacted. A brilliant resource for educators looking for meaningful ways to connect authentic content to language learning.
Look, for example, at principle 12, about affect and learning, and then link to the virtual tour of the women's shelter from Victims Services in NY. Take the quiz about domestic violence, take the virtual tour and see how you might consider taking up the topic of violence generally with colleagues, with learners.
The Recovered Memory Project - an Internet-based research project, directed by Professor Ross E. Cheit of the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions at Brown University. This project began as a letter to PBS objecting to false statements and shoddy research by Ofra Bikel, producer of the program "Divided Memories." The page was launched in conjunction with a presentation at the American Psychological Association meetings in Chicago, August 18, 1997.
Responding to Domestic Violence: Where federal employees can find help - US Office of Personnel Management. A look at how workplace policy can affect awareness; as well as very specific suggestions for federal workers coping with domestic violence.
Rethinking Violence and Learning: Examining Barriers and Enablers for Moving Research into Practice - abstract of research currently being undertaken by Susan Heald and Jenny Horsman
Rethinking Violence and Learning: Moving Research into Practice by Susan Heald and Jenny Horsman
Paper presented at the Adult Education Research Conference,
Vancouver,
BC, June/2000.
Safe
Horizon (formerly Victim Services) in New York,
extensive
information about responses to violence, links to local and national
information,
resources and services, some in Spanish
Strategies for
Addressing the Needs of Domestic Violence Victims within the TANF
Program:
The Experience of Seven Counties (PDF) - Final Report by
Martha
Burt, Janine M. Zweig and Kathryn Schlichter, June 30, 2000
(view the html version here
Taking
Action against Violence - (from The Change Agent
September 1996) by Students in the Intermediate Class Dorcas Place
Parent
Literacy Center and their teacher, Rebecca Garland
Trauma
and Adult Learning - ERIC Digest No. 239 by Sandra Kerka,
2002
The
Trauma Center - a program of Justice Resource
Institute (JR1),
Trauma Recovery Institute - organization devoted to providing care for traumatized persons and training for trauma therapists. The primary mission is to treat children and adults who have been traumatized by overwhelming life events and need treatment that is not yet available in a traditional medical program.
V-Day - Stop Violence Against Women - a site documenting what you can do to help stop the violence in your own community and around the world, including anti-violence resources.
VFST Foundation for the Survivors of Torture - established to meet the needs of people in Victoria (Australia) tortured or traumatised in their countries of origin, in other countries, or whilst fleeing those country's. It is non-denominational, politically neutral and non-aligned, and non-profit. Contains references to refugee mental health and trauma.
Violence Against Women Grants Office - including state by state grant activities and Deparment of Justice publications and products
Volcano Press Catalogue - domestic violence titles
The White Ribbon Campaign : Men Working To End Men's Violence Against Women - Canadian site focussed on men's responses to violence, particularly in light of the December 6, 1989 Montréal massacre. Of interest are educational activities designed for Canadian teens, but adaptable to other North American contexts.
[more about the Montréal massacre and its impact over time, from CBC news online]
Domestic Violence and Adult Learners - Possible Adverse Consequences Education is Power and the Gateway to Independence Marsha Wise, Director of Community Services, the Women's Center of Rhode Island, from a discussion held on November 19, 1998
messages that help/that hurt - suggestions for taking on violence in classroom contexts.
paper presented at TESOL 2000 - work in progress
Final report - draft in PDF,
submitted
12/00
to receive a copy of the report as a Word file, please contact Janet
Isserlis
project proposal and quarterly reports
September
11, 2001: resources, reflections on trauma, war and peace
number of resources below address post
traumatic
stress, immigrant experiences of violence and how experiences of trauma
affect adult learning. Many comment on the ways in which domestic
violence is part of a larger community, global set of violences.
National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Office for Victims of Crime Handbook for Coping After Terrorism A Guide to Healing and Recovery September 2001
Coping after Terrorism - Spanish language manual: "Manual de la OVC para Ayudarlo a Superar el Impacto Emocional de Actos Terroristas" (13 pp.) (NCJ 193144) serves as the Spanish language translation of the "OVC Handbook for Coping After Terrorism: A Guide to Healing and Recovery," providing victims of terrorism or mass violence with information about common reactions to a traumatic disaster and practical ideas for coping. (OVC)
Tips
for Teachers in Times of Trauma (PDF document) from the Spring
Institute
PTSD and its potential impact on survivors of and witnesses to the events of September 11: Stress From Attacks Will Chase Some Into the Depths of Their Minds, and Stay [NY Times, September 18/01]
Google.com provides links to resources and information concerning events of September 11 and their aftermath.
Women
Waging Peace connects women addressing conflicts worldwide. The
initiative
recognizes the essential role and contribution of women in preventing
violent
conflict, stopping war, and sustaining peace in fragile areas around
the
world.
from Thinkfinity - A nation
remembers 9/11 (2009)
beginning level readers
in process - a site designed for beginning
level readers. feedback? contact Janet
Isserlis
page created November 19, 1999
last updated 22 October, 2012
to fellowship proposal to the National Institute for Literacy/rationale behind on the screen
to email postings from public lists
back to on the screen