Many victims fear that if they seek shelter, their animals will be abused or killed in retaliation for leaving the home. It is important to include the family animals in a safety plan.  

A list of Wisconsin and national programs and resources especially useful for assisting farm women and their families. From basic needs to extended & speciality services.

This Coalition Chronicles explores the complex relationship between the military and domestic violence.  

In our work as advocates, we have often focused on the immediacy of the events that happened in the most recent victimization. Trauma-informed practice helps us to understand that trauma impacts can exist within us for many years, they can be stirred up, and can spill out when triggered by other events that remind them of a past trauma they have experiences.

The benefit of learning trauma-informed practice is that it starts with our already existing advocacy practices of trying to understand what happened, but asks us to dig deeper, learning and understanding more about the person as a whole being. When we take the time and work to truly understand what happened, recently and historically, to each individual who comes to our door for support and help, we know the healing can truly begin.

Crafting a concise plan into programming that includes evaluation can have a tremendous impact on services and all the work we do.  WCADV has begun thinking about evaluation as a wraparound effort – assessment, implementation and reflection.  Evaluation is the work we do first and the decisions we make to get a project going.  It’s connected to our daily, weekly or monthly endeavors to accomplish our goals.  And it is ways we measure if we succeed and to what degree.

This Coalition Chronicles is a project of WCADV’s Prevention Workgroup and represents the final entry of a year-long series on Prevention of Domestic Violence.

Violence against women, and all types of interpersonal violence, is also supported by social norms. Norms are standards, attitudes, and beliefs – rooted in culture and tradition – that are so imbedded in our daily lives that we often aren’t conscious of the role they play in influencing the way we act and shaping how we see the world. Norms are much more than just habits; yet as we’ve seen with norms related to smoking, they can be shifted. This issue of Coalition Chronicles explores how we can do that.

Can we end domestic violence?  We must prevent it from happening in the first place.  All WCADV journals for this year (2011) will focus on the topic of PREVENTION!  Enjoy the first of three editions.

December 2010 Issue: Through WCADV's Connected Cultures Leadership Institute (CCLI), we engaged in a year-long educational process with survivors of violence and/or women from communities of color. Many of the 2010 CCLI graduates contributed to this issue of the WCADV Coalition Chronicles.

October 2010 Issue

December 2009 Issue: At its core, domestic violence is a form of oppression. Victims of color, immigrant and/or refugee victims often also face the oppression of racism, causing greater barriers and intersecting layers of abuse. As a movement, we are challenged to examine the ways that our own individual and institutional racism contribute to disparate services for victims of color.

August 2009 Issue

June 2009 Issue: WCADV works in collaboration with Wisconsin service providers to identify ways, both great and small, that services can be designed and redesigned to meet the needs of all victims, regardless of race, culture, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, age, language, immigration status and economic level.

This guide is meant to help advocates assist their clients with the voting process. With the passage of the Wisconsin photo ID voting law, there is a lot of confusion about who can vote and how they can vote.  The guide explains how survivors can register to vote and ensure they have the proper documentation to vote.   In this volatile political climate and budgetary climate, we need survivors’ voices and participation at the ballot box now more than ever.   

May 2010 Issue

The Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Governor’s Council on Domestic Abuse has created a long-range plan for serving Domestic Abuse victims. This document includes an overview of Wisconsin Domestic Abuse Programs, including statistics, services, populations served, and a financial picture. Recommendations address the issues of Economic Justice, Financial Self- Sufficiency, Housing, Legal assistance and Primary Prevention.

Continuing the work launched in 2000 with publication of the first Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report, this edition details domestic violence-related homicides in the calendar year 2009. This brief accounting in no way represents the victims’ full lives. Within the limitations of readily available public information, we have endeavored to construct as accurate a description as possible of key events and circumstances related to each homicide.

This edition details domestic violence-related homicides in the calendar year 2008. This brief accounting in no way represents the victims’ full lives. That would require a far more detailed inquiry, in-depth study of official case records, and conversations with family and friends left behind. Within the limitations of readily available public information we have endeavored to construct as accurate a description as possible of key events and circumstances related to each homicide.