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Model - Public Awareness

Public Awareness

Public awareness is universally important for all: battered immigrant women, informal networks, key service providers, and the general public. Public awareness efforts should be strategic and tailored by task forces made up of all key sectors depicted in the model to increase demand and requests for formal training in VAWA and Immigrant Rights.

Avenues of dissemination: Public Service Announcements, Targeted Outreach (community presentations, cafecitos, health and human service information fairs, conferences, etc.)

Survivor's Stories: Public Awareness Videos

The Pima County Battered Immigrant Women Task Force created public awareness videos to allow immigrant women who have successfully completed the VAWA process to share their stories. These videos can be used along with the training video, "With Liberty and Justice For All," in community film screenings or other settings to raise public awareness of the experinces of immigrant women victims of abuse.

 

Uma's Story (long) - The Battered Immigrant Women Project from UAZ MEZCOPH on Vimeo.

Uma's Story (short) - The Battered Immigrant Women Project from UAZ MEZCOPH on Vimeo.

Irene's Story - The Battered Immigrant Women Project from UAZ MEZCOPH on Vimeo.

 

 


Perspectives from a Survivor

"There needs to publicity so that women find out about the services. There should be more T.V. and radio so that women feel safe calling these programs. They don't trust these organizations."

“I found out about (VAWA) from other people. They ought to disseminate it more. The community doesn’t realize domestic violence makes you ashamed, no one talks about it; they try to cover it up. At first I thought they should talk about it in schools; but that might put the children at risk. It could be done in churches”.

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Quick Links

  • Community Tool Kit: Protocol for a Coordinated Response
  • Rural PATHS Project
  • Upcoming Training Opportunities

CCR Model Links

  • Victim, Legal, Consular Services
  • Justice System
  • Dept of Homeland Security
  • Basic Services
  • Informal Networks
  • Training
  • Public Awareness
  • Targeted Outreach

Local Taskforces

  • Cochise County (Rural PATHS)
  • Graham/Greenlee Counties (Rural PATHS)
  • Pima County
  • Pinal County
  • Santa Cruz County (Rural PATHS)
  • Yuma County

BIWP Contacts

D. Jean McClelland
Program Director for Community Based Health Information Resources Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
520-626-8228
jmcc@email.arizona.edu

Maia Ingram
Program Director for Community Based Evaluation Projects Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
520-626-2267
maiai@email.arizona.edu

Montserrat Caballero
pimataskforce@yahoo.com

John Raeder
Southern Arizona Battered Immigrant Women Program Administrator, Governor Brewer's Office for Children, Youth and Families Division for Women
602-542-1705
jraeder@az.gov


The Southern Arizona Battered Immigrant Women Project (BIWP) and the Rural PATHS (Partners in Transformation for Health and Safety) – Southern Arizona Rural VAWA Project was supported by Grant No. 2008-WR-AX-0036 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

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