Après L’agression

[Video 43 min. with Handbook]

This French-language video package is for women who have been assaulted by their partner and who may be going to court as a witness in a criminal prosecution.

Video with Handbook available for the cost of shipping and handling only

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[Video 40 min. with Handbook]

This video package is for women who have been assaulted by their partner and who may be going to court as a witness in a criminal prosecution. In the video, women survivors of abuse share their personal experiences . Professionals, including a police officer, prosecutor and judge, describe what happens when a charge is laid and a case goes to court. The accompanying handbook offers women a step by step description of the legal system and court process.

Video with Handbook $30
Handbook only $5

Pump Up The Volume

This video is part of a participatory action research project that set out to discover difficulties women were having with various systems. In the interviews, it became clear that all the women had something they wanted to share with women like themselves. Thus, this video was born.

The determination, will and strengths of these women will inspire and encourage others in their journeys toward living as violence free as possible. This video also stresses the importance of listening to and involving women users of anti-violence systems directly in the creation and evaluation of services.

Pump Up The Volume will be inspirational and informative - whether you are a woman in, leaving or having left an abusive relationship, a family member or friend of someone in an abusive situation and/or a service provider

The women in this video primarily live in the suburbs of the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. They ranged in age from 22 to late-60s. The women identified as Japanese-Canadian, Ukrainian-Polish, Mennonite, First Nations, Punjabi, Latin American and Filipina. One identified as lesbian. Income levels of the women range from $6,600-$60,000 a year, with an average annual income of $20,300. All but two have children. Health concerns include fibromyalgia, HIV and multiple sclerosis. The length of abusive relationships ranged from two to 26 years.

For women with children, custody and access was a key issue. For recent immigrant and refugee women, immigration systems were a site of work, and all but one sought “protection” through the criminal justice system.

36 min. 46 sec.

sliding scale:
$5-$10 for individuals/survivors
$20 for women’s organizations, transition houses, immigrant-serving agencies
$35 for institutions, service providers, libraries

The Person Within: Preventing Abuse of Children and Young People with Disabilities

[Video 28 min. with 48 pg. Handbook]

This video and handbook are invaluable instruments for educating and raising the awareness of parents, caregivers, friends, and family of children and youth with disabilities about the issues of abuse and neglect. It gives a voice to young people with disabilities, their parents, and their caregivers, and emphasizes recognizing individual abilities rather than disabilities. The production highlights the importance of emotionally responsible caregiving in family and group homes, schools, and treatment facilities.

Video with Handbook $50
Handbook only $7

Waking Up to Violence

“This video provides the opportunity to challenge excuses and denial, and ultimately validates the experience of women”. - Executive Director, Northern Society for Domestice Peace

Assaultive men need to wake up to the fact that someone else can’t cause their violent behaviour; it is their choice and responsibility. As a society, we need to wake up to the violence occurring every day in homes all over the nation. It is not restricted to any one group or level of society. Violence against another person is a crime and there is no excuse. But, as we hear in the video: “you can’t stop something until you admit that you’re doing it.”

“Waking Up to Violence” powerfully depicts abusive men defending, rationalizing and denying their violence against women. Realistic scenes dramatize common themes and alibis men use to defend themselves against accepting responsibility and facing the impact of their violence on the women and children in their lives. After each dramatic segment, host Maria LaRose and Dale Trimble, a counsellor in this field since 1977, examine how counsellors, police officers, hospital staff and even neighbours can assist men to really see their violent behaviour for what it is, accept responsibility and end it. Clarity and unflinching directness must be used to place the responsibility for violence where it belongs, with the man.

58 min. / $149

Originally entitled: Themes of Defense : Understanding Men Who Assault Their Partners.

To order Waking Up to Violence, please contact Dale Trimble and Associates:
301 - 1055 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC V6H 1E2
Phone: 604-253-8641 Fax: 604-253-8741
daletrimble@telus.net
www.counsellingbc.com/Listings/DTrimble.htm