Foundations for Violence-Free Living: A Step-by-Step Guide to Facilitating Men's Domestic Abuse Groups gives you everything you need to facilitate effective men's domestic abuse groups. Whether you want to start a group or enhance your current program, this guide and participant's workbook provide complete tools for facilitating a domestic abuse treatment program with proven success. Foundations for Violence-Free Living distills the best of fifteen years of experience by one of the nation’s largest, most comprehensive domestic abuse programs. This practical guide includes: 1) twenty-nine activities accompanied by forty-nine worksheetspick and choose the activities and worksheets that best fit your clientele, your program, and the strengths of your facilitators; 2) extensive preparation for each activity, including how to present it, what worksheets are required, and most important, the issues each activity is likely to raise and how to respond to them; 3) proven techniques for reversing denial and blaming, changing the behavior of resistant clients, dealing with chemical use in group, serving a diverse clientele, and other special issues; 4) guidelines for program consistency, from a philosophy of violence, to intake and individual counseling, to recommended policies and releases, to suggestions for facilitating groups; and 5) how to co-facilitate, and why we recommend a male/female facilitation team. The activities in this guide were developed by the staff of the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation Community Assistance Program, located in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Foundations for Violence-Free Living: A Step-By-Step Guide to Facilitating Men's Domestic Abuse Groups

Business & Money

David J. Mathews

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Fieldstone Alliance

On the Level: Foundations for Violence-Free Living

This workbook is designed for use with our counselor's guide, Foundations for Violence-Free Living. It forms a permanent record of the work the men have done and the progress they've made toward changing their behavior. It contains 49 worksheets that correspond to the activities described in the facilitator's guide. The language in this workbook was edited for adult learners, to be sure men of all educational backgrounds could use it.

Mathews, David

Mathews, David J.

The Little Book of Peace

Amherst H. Wilder Foundation

Self-Help

Think about funding problems in a new way Coping with Cutbacks can help you deal with funding problems in a new way. Successful nonprofits today see that solutions of the past won't work in the long-run. Authors Angelica and Hyman urge you to take a different approach, shifting your thinking from ""How do we get more money to keep our nonprofit in business?"" to ""How do we involve other segments of the community to address community issues?"" How to go about working together The first part of the book shows you practical ways to involve business, government, and other nonprofits to solve problems together. In the process, you'll be making new connections, creating buy-in, and bringing new partners to the table. The second part of this unique guide gives you a six-step process for coming up with solutions to problemsfinancial or otherwisethat your organization is facing. The steps are similar to what a consultant might use to help you clarify the problem, set up criteria for success, brainstorm strategies, and finally, pick the best strategies. Detailed worksheets walk you through each step and help you write a workplan. Find immediate help with 185 specific cutback strategies Coping with Cutbacks also includes 185 specific cutback strategies gathered from interviews with a wide variety of nonprofit managers. These strategies can be put to use right away to help you overcome short-term crises, manage change, and use your resources more effectively. You’ll learn 51 ways to increase revenues, manage money differently, increase fund-raising, expand services, and improve productivity; 64 ways to cut costs, deal with bills, modify staffing, and change services; 28 ways to change how your organization works, including its mission, culture, and structure; 40 ways to involve more people in solving your problem, including other nonprofits, businesses, the community, and the government; and much more!

Coping With Cutbacks: The Nonprofit Guide to Success When Times Are Tight

Angelica, Emil

Hyman, Vincent

Management & Leadership

A new companion volume to the author's first workbook, this title shows marketing professionals how to put together a successful promotion campaign based on the most persuasive tool of all: personal contact. It shows how to mobilize your entire organization, staff, volunteers, and supporters in a focused, one-to-one, marketing campaign, using complete, easy-to-follow steps and worksheets, helpful for any size organization.

Marketing Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations Volume 2: Mobilize People for Marketing Success (Marketing Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations, 2)

Gary J. Stern

Marketing & Sales

Pocket Guide for Marketing Representatives

Stern, Gary J.

The Wilder Nonprofit Field Guide to Getting Started on the Internet (Wilder Nonprofit Field Guide Series)

Grobman, Gary M.

Grant, Gary B.

Grant, Gary

Grobman, Gary

Computers & Technology

Create compelling women's groups that deal effectively with domestic abuse Journey Beyond Abuse and its accompanying participant's journal, Moving Beyond Abuse, give you complete tools for facilitating a powerful group with life-changing results. Used together, these unique books can help you create a program where women increase their understanding of the dynamics of abuse, feel less alone and isolated, feel empowered to make positive choices, and have a greater awareness to channels of safety. Adapt this flexible program to your group's specific needs No two groups are the same. Journey Beyond Abuse gives you twenty-one group sessions, which you can combine to create groups of differing length and focus. The sessions are based on the successful program developed by the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation which had been used with more than 1,200 women. You'll get detailed instructions on how to facilitate each session including its goals, format, activities, and important issues that the session raises for both the participants and facilitators. This practical guide also includes an overview of the history, philosophy, and goals of this model and how to best use the program; information and tips on how to handle 28 special issues such as child care, safety and protection, and substance abuse; facilitation techniques, cofacilitation, intake and individual counseling, and recommended policies and procedures; useful appendices including reproducible forms such as a women's domestic abuse summary sheet, her goals and strengths, self-care plan; and much more.

Journey Beyond Abuse: A Step-By-Step Guide to Facilitating Women's Domestic Abuse Groups

Kay-Laurel Fischer

Michael F. McGrane

Moving Beyond Abuse: Stories and Questions for Women Who Have Lived with Abuse

Participant's journal helps women get even more out of their group This participant’s journal is a series of stories and questions that coordinate with the sessions provided in the facilitator’s guide, Journey Beyond Abuse. The journal can be used in coordination with a women’s group or with guidance of a counselor in other forms of support for dealing with abuse issues. The storiesbased on other women’s actual abuse and group experienceshelp prompt the thoughts of women in your group and confirm their own reality. The open-ended questions provide gentle direction toward gaining insights that help affirm inner strength and heal the wounds of abuse.

Mike McGrane

Conflict resolution designed for the unique needs of nonprofits Whether you're dealing with arguments about how services should be delivered or power struggles between board members, Resolving Conflict in Nonprofit Organizations will help you understand, identify, and resolve conflict constructively. Use this guide to recognize and deal with conflict before it becomes destructive; resolve conflicts using the eight-step process; learn and practice key conflict resolution skills; break deadlocks using specific techniques; create a better working environment that will attract and retain employees; and equip the people within your organization to handle their own conflicts constructively. The guide's eight-step process shows you how to spot conflicts, decide whether to intervene, uncover and deal with the true issues involved, and design and carry out a conflict resolution process. Worksheets, checklists, and conflict resolution forms keep the process on track. Exercises help you learn and practice conflict resolution skills such as affirming and restating, mirroring body language, asking neutral questions, reframing issues, and breaking deadlocks. This valuable guide also tells you how to handle special conflicts such as harassment, discrimination, illegal activities, disagreements with funders, and more. If outside help is needed, you?ll find information on searching for and choosing the right assistance. With Resolving Conflict in Nonprofit Organizations, you'll have the tools to handle most types of conflict internally. Start using this practical guide in your organization right away.

Resolving Conflict in Nonprofit Organizations: The Leader's Guide to Finding Constructive Solutions

Angelica, Marion Peters

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