Resources (9/17/2012) in Keeping Safe

A few Resources regarding violence and surviving same:

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Impact self-defense:

Impact Bay Area http://www.impactbayarea.org/: the organization under whose auspices I took the Impact Men’s Basics self-defense course the weekend of October 18-20 2002

Other Impact chapters http://www.impactbayarea.org/impact_chapters: located around the USA, plus one each in England and Israel

Impact Bay Area’s commercial/video

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Survivors of Battering or Rape - Agencies:

Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent Living (formerly WICCA: Women in Crisis - Counselling and Assistance) http://www.iacnvl.org/: located in Fairbanks. Advocates available if you need to talk (talked with them a couple times myself): 1.800.478.7273 or 1.907.452.2293

AWAIC - Abused Women’s Aid in Crisis http://www.awaic.org/: located in Anchorage 1-907-272-0100

STAR - Standing Together Against Rape http://www.staralaska.com/: Alaskan Rape hotline: 1-800-478-8999 or 1-907-276-7279

RAINN - Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network http://www.rainn.org/: national anti-sexual violence organization: 1-800-656-4673 or 1-800-656-HOPE

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Books: a couple of books I found most informative about violence, and recognizing pre-incident indicators of violence:

The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence by Gavin de Becker (Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Other-Survival-Signals-Protect-Violence/dp/0440508835/ref=la_B001HCVD06_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347917311&sr=1-1)

Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane) by Gavin de Becker (Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Protecting-Gift-Keeping-Children-Teenagers/dp/0440509009/ref=la_B001HCVD06_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1347917311&sr=1-2

Both books may be ordered through your local bookstore, as well.

Gavin de Becker, author of The Gift of Fear and Protecting the Gift as well as numerous other books, has a security and threat-assessment firm, Gavin de Becker and Associates. Check it out at http://gavindebecker.com/.

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And for a bit of comic relief about a subject which, for many if not most women, is of deadly consequence, check out Chris Brecheen’s article “Changing the Creepy Guy Narrative” about an incident in which he participated on BART, San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit system. He shied off a creep who was pestering a woman on a nearly-empty train. Take a look:
http://chrisbrecheen.blogspot.com/2013/07/changing-creepy-guy-narrative.html.

Last updated January 19, 2015