Men
Stopping Violence is a social change organization dedicated to ending
men's violence against women.
Men
Stopping Violence works locally, nationally, and internationally
to dismantle belief systems, social structures, and institutional
practices that oppress women and children and dehumanize men themselves.
We look to the violence against women's movement to keep the reality
of the problem and the vision of the solution before us. We believe
that all forms of oppression are interconnected. Social justice
work in the areas of race, class, gender, age, and sexual orientation
are all critical to ending violence against women.
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Men Stopping Violence and help change society for the better!
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We Have Daughters®
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Community
Organizations:
Take
Your Work
to the Next Level!
True
safety for all women means looking beyond intervention with batterers
and inspiring male allies in communities to take on the work of
ending male violence against women.
With
26 years of experience doing just that, Men Stopping Violence
can help other organizations doing this work find ways to identify,
educate and organize men who want to contribute. At the same time,
our trainings can help prepare organizations to apply for funding
that will be used to incorporate men and boys in our efforts.
Below
is a list of trainings that give community-based organizations
throughout the country opportunities to learn about and implement
our innovative programs.
Interested?
Request a training
online or contact Ulester Douglas at 404.270.9894.
Mobilizing
Men: Beyond Batterers' Intervention
This
training is designed for organizations that are interested in
mobilizing male allies to work to end violence against women or
those who have already begun working with men.
Read more.
Men
at Work: Building
Safe Communities
Men
Stopping Violence's years of experience in conducting men's education
classes has allowed us to test and implement effective strategies
for engaging men in a classroom setting.
We
can train organizations in how to use our 24-week Men
at Work course, which offers men the education and tools
they need to disrupt cultural patterns that promote violence,
dominance and abuse of women.
Read more.
Because
We
Have
Daughters®
Men
Stopping Violence created the Because We Have Daughters®
(BWHD) initiative to engage more men in the work of
creating safer and more just communities for women and girls.
BWHD provides an opportunity for fathers and daughters to share
fun activities, followed by discussions about what the activities
taught them about themselves and each other.
This training combines the experience of conducting a Because
We Have Daughters® event with instructions about how to implement
a similar program.
Read more.
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The
Art of Change
Men
Stopping Violence Benefit
Acknowledges
Work of Co-Founder
All
photos of The Art of Change by: Al Viola
The
sanctuary of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta
became a repository for music, movement, musings and memories on
Saturday, May 2, as the Men Stopping Violence community of allies
gathered to pay tribute to co-founder Dick Bathrick
(above).
MSV's
annual benefit concert featured singer and songwriter Doria
Roberts, The Chorus of Bet Haverim, Old Enough to Know Better,
percussion emsemble Sehwe Village, and spoken-word
artists Yolo Akili and Theresa Davis. The
show was emceed by Khaatim Sherrer El and Leslie
Fredman.
We
dare not use the word "retire" around Dick, who will leave
the staff of Men Stopping Violence later this year. He will continue
his justice-making and anti-violence activities through his private
counseling practice and his work with various other groups, both
locally and nationally.
Doria Roberts
The Chorus of Bet Haverim
Old
Enough to Know Better
Theresa
Davis
Yolo Akili
Sehwe
Village
Lesly Fredman
Khaatim Sherrer El
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Special
Thanks to:
Jackie
and Jeffrey Toney
For
helping to sponsor this event!
Because
We Have Daughters®
Team Works With Dads,
Daughters at
Keesler AFB
Photo:
Paula Tracy
In
October a team of Men Stopping Violence facilitators and volunteers
traveled to Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi, to present
a Because We Have Daughters® session to a group of more than
80 people – servicemen and the girls in the lives – daughters, nieces
and others.
“WOW,
what a great day that was!” said one father. “I wanted to let you
know how valuable that class was. ...
I also learned some more things about my daughter and things she
wants to do.”
Men
Stopping Violence created Because We Have Daughters ® as an
opportunity for men who were fathers to invest time and effort in
understanding their daughters' realities. MSV believes that this
helps men begin to understand that in order for their daughters
to live fully and freely, the world that women and girls inhabit
must change.
Read more.
Mentor
Training Program
Initiative Continues Growth
in Clayton, Cherokee Counties
Men Stopping Violence's Mentor Training Program (MTP) continues
to grow on two fronts. In 2008, MSV recruited and trained two groups
of mentors: college men from Clayton State and Georgia State universities
and mentors living in Cherokee County, Georgia, who will work with
boys living in a domestic violence shelter there.
Communities are calling on men to step up and serve as positive
role models for boys. However, if these men have not done the hard
work of examining the ways in which they adhere to negative social
norms, the cycle of violence will not be broken. The MTP trains
men to more effectively mentor boys by examining and challenging
crippling definitions of manhood.
The college men were trained in November at Southern Crescent Sexual
Assault Center in Clayton County. The training consisted of videos,
exercises and conversations geared towards educating the young men
about the nature of violence against women and sexual assault and
preparing them for the challenges of being mentors.
This group of young men will begin working with high school students
in spring 2009.
Men Stopping Violence also conducted a training in conjunction with
the Cherokee Family Violence Center with mentors who will begin
working in 2009 with eight to 10 boys who are currently living in
domestic abuse shelters.
Seven mentors are expected to be part of the Cherokee County initiative.
Men Stopping Violence will continue to serve a supporting role by
following up with mentors and training additional men who join the
program.
Men
Stopping Violence Contributes
to Book on Work With Men of Color
Men
Stopping Violence has contributed a chapter to the recently published
second edition of Family Violence and Men of Color: Healing
the Wounded Male Spirit, edited by Ricardo Carrillo and Jerry
Tello.
The book's editors compiled writings that
examine the interplay between ethnic and cultural identification,
sexism and violence against women. In the chapter "African
American Men Who Batter: A Community-Centered Approach to Prevention
and Intervention," Ulester Douglas, Sulaiman Nuriddin and Phyllis
Alesia Perry of Men Stopping Violence discuss in detail the intersection
of racism and male violence against women.
They write:
"MSV asserts that violence against women is not an individual
pathology, but a systemic control tactic that cannot be uncoupled
from other oppressive systems of control, such as racial discrimination
or heterosexism. The work of MSV is based on the premise that these
systems are integrated and, therefore, should be addressed as parts
of a whole."
Read
the book chapter here.
Article
Describes MSV Model
for Mobilizing Men to End
Violence Against Women
Community
accountability is the foundation of the work that Men Stopping Violence
does to help increase the safety of women and girls. An article
published in the February 2008 issue of the journal Violence
Against Women explains the philosophical framework MSV uses
to do this work and that framework's relationship to the organization's
programs.
The
article, "Deconstructing Male Violence Against Women: The Men
Stopping Violence Community-Accountability Model" was written
by MSV staffers Dick Bathrick, Ulester Douglas and Phyllis Alesia
Perry.
Read
the article.
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Upcoming
Events
Annual
Awards Dinner
October
17, 2009
The
Ritz-Carlton Atlanta
Sponsorships
available!
For
more information,
contact Shelley Serdahely at shelley@menstoppingviolence.org or
404.270.9894.
Read
about
the 2008 Annual Awards Dinner!
Join
us for
a
special reading:
When
the Piano Stops:
A Memoir of Healing From Sexual Abuse
By
Catherine McCall
Friday, May 22, 2009
8 p.m.
Charis
Books & More
1189 Euclid Avenue
Atlanta, Georgia 30307
When
the Piano Stops is Catherine McCall's revealing memoir of
childhood sexual abuse. Now a highly successful family therapist,
McCall overcame the difficult years of childhood and became an
inspiration to others. Please join Catherine for an evening of
lucid prose and authentic conversation, as she reads from her
memoir and takes questions from the audience.
For
more information, call 404.524.0304.
For
more news, check out In the News and
the Events Calendar.
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