Real Tools: Responding to Multi-Abuse Trauma

A Tool Kit to Help Advocates and Community Partners

Better Serve People With Multiple Issues

The “Real Tools” products  provide a support group manual and training tools for advocates and other professionals working with women who have experienced domestic violence, sexual assault, substance abuse and other trauma.
“Real Tools: Responding to Multi-Abuse Trauma – A Tool Kit to Help Advocates and Community Partners Better  Serve People With Multiple Issues,” by Debi S. Edmund, M.A., LPC and Patricia J. Bland, M.A., CDP, is now available online. The project, which was supported by a grant from the Office of Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice, was a three year effort on the part of former ANDVSA Training Project Director Patti Bland and her co-author Debi Edmund.
The online, click and print version of Real Tools is available here. If you are interested in ordering a copy, please contact ANDVSA for details.

Other Real Tools Products

“Getting Safe and Sober: Real Tools You Can Use: An Advocacy Teaching Kit for Working with Women Coping with Substance Abuse and Interpersonal Violence (2005 Version)”
Real Tools: Getting Safe and Sober (also known as Real Tools 2)

Spanish Versions

To view the Spanish version, please click here.