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South Asian Domestic Violence Organizations
Local Resources
Interval House
Hotline 860-527-0550
P.O. Box 340207
Hartford, CT 06134-0207
Business 860-246-9149
Fax 860-247-2042
Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services, Inc.
110 Connecticut Boulevard
East Hartford, CT 06108
860) 282-9881
HOTLINE: 1-888-999-5545
Connecticut Coalition Against
Domestic Violence
90 Pitkin Street
East Hartford, CT 06108
(860) 282-7899
Email:
info@ctcadv.org
Web site: www.ctcadv.org
hotline: 1-888-774-2900
Survivors
of Homicide in CT
530 Silas Deane Highway, Suite
380
Wethersfield, CT
University of Connecticut Domestic Violence Training Project
90 State Street
New Haven, CT 06510
(203) 865-3699
South Asian Domestic
Violence Organizations
Sneha, Inc.
P.O. Box 271650
W. Hartford, Connecticut 06127-1650
Phone: (860) 658-4615
Fax: (860) 521-1562
Toll Free: 800-58-SNEHA (CT Residents Only)
Web: www.sneha.org
E-Mail: sneha@sneha.org
JAGARAN
108 Munson Road
Middlebury, Connecticut 06762
Phone: (203) 758-2333
E-Mail: dhumale@juno.com
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Web sites
FaithTrust Institute provides
resources for faith based communities. It provides special programs for
the Jewish, Asian and Hispanic communities. Books, videos and
pamphlets can be ordered. Many of their materials are available in
Spanish.
Family Violence
Prevention Fund This organization has an excellent fact sheet
about domestic violence including statistics on youth and children.
Included on the site is the history of the Violence Against Women Act.
Noncitizen Survivors of Domestic Violence This is part
of the National Immigration Project. The project strongly
supported the Violence Against Women Act. The project also has
training materials to help develop sensitivity to the issue of domestic
violence.
Institute
on Domestic Violence in the African American Community.
Sponsored by
the Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and
Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the group
brings together scholars and practitioners to raise awareness of
domestic violence and affect changes in the community.
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
This Web site has a fact sheet on
Intimate Partner Violence. The fact sheet includes statistics and
risk factors.
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National Coalition Against Domestic
Violence This national coalition provides women
of all races, creeds, and social status a voice in the public forum
against domestic violence.
National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence
This is a wonderful Web site that
offers
Spanish and English materials for use in programs against
domestic violence.
National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women
This organization began in 1992 to fight domestic abuse
against and provide services for immigrant women. The network has been
helpful for non-citizens to be able to escape violence in the home.
Toolkit to End
Violence Against Women-
The toolkit focuses on different groups or
environments such as native women or the workplace. There are
suggestions on prevention behavior and on working with the local
community.
US
Department of Justice Violence Against Women Office -
The office handles legal and policy
issues of the Department of Justice with regard to the fight against
violence to women.
Violence Against Women
is a fact sheet put out by
the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women in Hartford, CT.
It contains statistics about domestic violence in Connecticut.
Books
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Periodicals
and Newspapers
Forgiveness and the Jewish High Holy Days
by Marcia Cohn Spiegel, M.A. Ms.
Spiegel is working to create change in the attitudes of the
Jewish Community towards addiction, violence and sexual abuse.
Muslim woman offers others a place to voice the unspeakable
The Star-Ledger
January 25, 2004 p. 29 Sect: Essex, Edition:
West
Spain Sentences Imam for Book Offering Advice on Wife-Beating
The New York Times
January 15, 2004, Late Edition - Final
Section A; p. 15; Column 1
Government Documents
The Violence Against Women Act: The legislation was first enacted as part of
the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The Office of
Violence Against Women was charged with implementing the Act. A
National Domestic Violence Hotline was created. The number is
1-800-799-SAFE, and there is a TDD number for the hearing impaired,
1-800-787-3224. Assistance is also available in many languages other
than English.
Violence against Women in the Workplace
This document details what
the government and business are doing about the problem of workplace
violence
Children's Exposure to Violence: the Safe Start Initiative The
Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention produced this fact sheet in 2001 summarizing
the Safe Start Initiative which was a joint program of the
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP),
the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Office of Justice Programs and the
Department of Health and Human Services. The
goal of this program is to prevent and lessen the impact of family and
community violence on young children and their families. For further information on the Safe Start Initiative, contact
OJJDP, 810 Seventh Street NW.,Washington, DC 20531; 202–616–3649.
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