Preventative and responsive interfaith resources on family violence that can be used by any faith tradition

Interfaith/Multifaith:

Pdfs:

• Promoting Equality and Respect: An interfaith collaboration on preventing family violence (pdf)
  This resource is designed to help faith and spiritual leaders to understand the issue of family violence and its causes and how they can take action in the community to prevent and respond to it.
  
  
• Promoting Equal and Respectful Relationships in Faith Communities (pdf)
  This manual and tool kit is designed to assist faith communities in taking a primary prevention approach to the issue of violence against women.
  
  
• Western Interfaith Collaboration: Building Equality and Respect (the working group) (pdf)
  The working group’s purpose was to engage with faith leaders and faith communities, to raise awareness and build leadership capacity in recognising, responding to, and preventing violence against women.

• Responding to Domestic Violence: An Interfaith Guide to Prevention and Intervention (pdf)
  An interfaith resource produced by the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network.
  
  
• Religions for Peace: Restoring Dignity - A Toolkit for Religious Communities to End Violence Against Women (pdf)
  This toolkit offers religious leaders, faith communities and inter-religious councils the tools to carry out awareness, prevention and advocacy programs to help bring an end to violence against women.

Websites:

• FaithTrust Institute - faithtrustinstitute.org
  FaithTrust Institute is a multifaith and multicultural training and education organisation working to end domestic and sexual violence. The website has many resources from a faith perspective and includes what actions can be taken by faith communities to address domestic violence.
  
  
• Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence - interfaithpartners.org
  Safe Havens is an interfaith organisation that promotes hope and justice for victims and survivors of domestic violence and elder abuse.
  
  
• Interfaith Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence - interfaithagainstdv.org
  The Interfaith Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence is composed of faith organisations that come together to advocate for national legislation and public policies that protect all people from domestic and sexual violence.
  
  
• VAWNET: Domestic Violence and Religion - vawnet.org/sc/domestic-violence-and-religion
  This online resource outlines how faith leaders from many different spiritual communities can become effective allies in the prevention and intervention of domestic violence in their communities.
  
  
• We Will Speak Out: Faith Communities uniting to end Sexual Violence - wewillspeakout.us
  Faith communities uniting to end sexual violence. Includes 'Sacred Spaces' a resource (pdf) for faith communities to prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence.
  
  
• South African Faith and Family Institute - saffi.org.za
  The South African Faith and Family Institute calls upon faith leaders to ‘take a stand’ against intimate partner violence and gender based violence. It calls for faith communities to prioritise the issue of violence against women and children.
  
  
• Faith Action - faithaction.net
  Faith Action states that domestic abuse is a part of society that faith communities and particularly faith leaders can do something about. They have produced a resource (pdf) that contains recommendations for faith leaders.
  
  
• Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence - fcadv.org
  FCADV and FaithTrust Institute have put together a resource (pdf) entitled 'Faith and intimate partner violence handbook for advocates'.
  
  
• The North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence - nccadv.org
  The NCCADV has produced the following resource (pdf) for faith leaders to increase support of healthy relationships and to improve the response to domestic violence within their congregations.