This training was developed by Jen McDonald for 5650: Designs
for Online Learning, May 2005. The content of this course is based on the
work of Elizabeth Marsh and Elena Cohen.
This six-week course will take you through the first of six modules in the
Safe Futures curriculum, Domestic Violence: It’s
Everybody’s Business.
The goal of Safe Futures is to help Early Head Start and Head Start staff deal with the difficult and ongoing task of responding to the needs of families at risk of or experiencing domestic violence.
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A Note About Language
Domestic violence happens in all kinds of families: across different cultures,
different socio-economic groups, and different types of relationships. Sometimes,
the one perpetrating the violence is a man and sometimes it is a woman. Sometimes
the victim is a woman and sometimes it is a man. In this course, we may use
gender specific language at times. In these cases, we use “he”
to refer to a person doing the battering and “she” to refer to
the victim. This reflects research that tells us that most often domestic
violence is a man abusing a woman. However, this is not to say that all men
are batterers or to ignore the fact that domestic violence occurs against
men.