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Download full textCohen, Susan; Bancroft, Susan – 1979
A Law Enforcement Assistance Administration grant funded this directory of services to battered women. Addresses, phone numbers, a listing of services and funding sources for shelters and other services are provided for the United States and Puerto Rico. The directory serves as a locator of services for battered women, as well as an idea resource…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Community Services, Crisis Intervention, Directories
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Direct linkJanovicek, Nancy – American Indian Quarterly, 2003
This article discusses how Native women in Thunder Bay, Ontario, organized services and programs to help women adapt to urban life in the 1970s and 1980s. It investigates the founding of Beendigen, an emergency hostel for Native women and their children. In 1978, Thunder Bay Anishinabequek, a chapter of the Ontario Native Women's Association…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Canada Natives, Emergency Shelters
