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Getting Safe and Sober

Getting Safe and Sober: Real Tools You Can Use

An Advocacy Teaching Kit For Working With Women Coping with Substance Abuse and Interpersonal Violence 1 2

Date Published and Principal Authors

© 2005, Alaska Network on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault

Principal Authors: Patricia J. Bland, M.A. CCDC CDP and Debi Edmund, M.A. L.P.C.

Original Paper Manual Layout and Design: Brenda Brown, Office Manager

Description

Getting Safe and Sober: Real Tools You Can Use is a practical tool kit for use with women who have substance abuse or chemical dependence problems and who are, or have been, victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or sexual abuse. The kit also can be used to train service providers about the needs of women whose experience includes both substance abuse and victimization.

Availability

This publication is made available on the online Accessing Safety website courtesy of the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. The order of components was changed to accommodate the web environment. See the original Manual Acknowledgements.

In This Section

  • Why This Toolkit? provides Background, Objectives, Rationale for Developing the Kit, Components of the Kit, and Primary Resources.
  • Provider Preparation contains background information on addictions and Domestic Violence / Sexual Assault and answers the most commonly asked provider questions. It also contains the original Model Protocol that provides procedures and policy recommendations for advocates and providers working with women impacted by DV/SA and substance abuse.
  • The Support Group Manual is a set of tools for organizing support groups, including support group topics and handouts for each topic.
  • Screening Materials are tools to help providers with identifying substance use, degrees and types of use, and how to screen women into programs.
  • Training & Group Evaluation Tools

1This project was supported by the Office of Women’s Health Region X Grant # HHSP233200400566P and by Grant #’s 2003-MU-BX-0029, 2004-MU-AX-0029 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations expressed here are those of the presenters and authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women or the Office of Women’s Health.


2Portions of these materials were reprinted, excerpted or adapted from the manual entitled The Perinatal Partnership Against Domestic Violence Manual, 2001, Department of Health, Maternal-Child Health, principal author, Patricia J. Bland and is provided here with permission from the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Some portions of material pertaining to substance abuse were provided by the Domestic Violence Interdisciplinary Task Force of the Illinois Department of Human Services (2000). Safety and Sobriety: Best Practices in Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse, Springfield: IL. Other sources are noted on individual items.