Domestic Violence Awareness: Action for Social Change (2005), authored by members of the Domestic Violence Awareness Project (DVAP) Advisory Group, is intended to begin to illustrate the tremendous power, creativity and mobilization of advocates nationwide and also to inspire each of us to move beyond minimum standards of operation. This first installment includes a record of some advocates' discussions of social change, gender and language and analyses of violence against women. It also includes the beginning of a new section titled "Working within Our Own Communities," comprised to date of contributions from advocates in Asian and Pacific Islander, Native and older adult communities.

This work offers opportunities for reflection, critical analysis, and action by advocates seeking to shift paradigms and place policy advocacy in a social change movement.

• Domestic Violence Awareness: Action for Social Change (Introduction & Table of Contents)
• Chapter One - Gender Violence and Patriarchy; Social Change to End Violence Against Women (or to Reclaim Women's Sovereignty; Culture and Disability; Whose Voice, Whose Table?
• Chapter Two - Working Within Our Own Communities: Older Adults; Ending Violence Against Native Women: Working Within Our Nations; Working Within Our Own Communities: Asians and Pacific Islanders
• Discussion of Terms
• Resources - National Organizations; Tribal Organizations; State Domestic Violence Organizations
• Domestic Violence Awareness: Action for Social Change

• Domestic Violence Awareness: Action for Social Change - Part II: Organizing and Communications By Domestic Violence Awareness Project (August 2009)