Creating a Safe Place:
   Encourage to Change

     Family Peacemaking Materials for Clergy, Lay Leaders, Staff & Laity

 

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Introduction

Manual Overview

BOOK I: Faith Community Curriculum for Clergy and Lay Leaders

BOOK II: Family Violence: Helping Survivors and Abusers
A Manual for Faith Communities

BOOK III: Pastor’s Packet: Family Violence Awareness Materials for Pastors

BOOK IV: Curriculum for Laity
Part 1-A Opening Comments
  - Honor survivors in attendance
  - Definitions
  - Incidence of battering
  - Violence in scripture

Part 1-B Dynamics
  - Power and control
  - Why people stay

Part 1-C Myths
Part 1-D Questions & Answers,   Discussion
Part 2-A Opening Comments
  - Questions or thoughts
    from last segment

Part 2-B How Individuals
   Can Help

  - Victim/survivors
  - Abusers
  - Teens and children

Part 2-C How Faith Communities
  Can Help

Part 2-D Closure: The Good   Samaritan
Participant Handouts

Appendix

Part 2-D: Closure

Desired Time

  • 5 minutes

Purpose

  • Provide closure, direction and encouragement
  • To help them recognize their responsibility as people of faith to reach out to individuals suffering in abusive relationships

Strategies

Content

  • Good Samaritan exercise:
  • Two individuals read alternately: one reading the bold parts, the other reading the italicized parts.

Tips

  • State: "We all need to recognize that it is our calling and our personal responsibility to know what to do and then do it when we recognize someone who is hurting and being hurt. As people of faith, we are called to respond."
  • Read "The Good Samaritan"