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mas fuerte en mi vida para salir adelante.
Gracias por ayudarme.”
“Every day I take this class I feel
stronger in my life to go forward.
Thanks for helping me.”
-Women’s Windows Participant
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The Women's Windows Program provides weekly art workshops to battered women in shelters, transitional housing, and outreach centers. The program has also been useful for teens from violent homes, as well as male survivors of domestic violence.
The Women's Windows Program provides a safe, gentle, and effective way for survivors to express and release painful feelings, and to overcome the abusive messages that they learned from their batterers. As women begin to believe in themselves, they are able to develop hope for a healthy future and take concrete steps toward building one.
AWBW actively supports partner agencies with leadership training, art supplies, personalized consultation, and 24/7 access to an online support network that includes over 100 sample art workshops, leader focus groups, and online program reporting.
Program Results in 2007:
- Reached over 16,200 participants (4,025 women each participating in an average of 4 art workshops).
- Held over 2,300 workshops at 92 sites, and began art programs at 22 new agencies this year.
- Trained 44 new leaders to facilitate art expression workshops.
We invite any person or group working with domestic violence survivors to consider implementing the Women’s Windows Program to help survivors heal through art. During 2007, the Women’s Windows workshops were held nationwide in the following areas:
