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

Participant handouts

Actions to consider

Barriers: Realities that Prevent Family Violence Survivors from Looking for Help (pdf 100KB)

Christian Myths About Sexual and Domestic Abuse

Equality wheel (pdf 456KB)

Family Violence: Myths and Misconceptions (pdf 480KB)

Guidelines for Creating a Safe Place in Your Faith Community (pdf 500KB)

How to Create a Safe Place in Your Faith Community (pdf 520KB)

Myths about abusers

Power and control wheel (pdf 472KB)

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Spiritual support

Statistics (pdf 496KB)

Survivors: Characteristics and Indicators of possible abuse

The Good Samaritan

*Found in Appendix