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Working With Survivors in Jail: A Manual for Community-Based Advocates

by National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women staff (November 2009)

Updated July 2025 by Sophie Davis and Cindene Pezzell(Fall 2025)

Provides information and strategies to help community-based advocates provide effective and holistic support to incarcerated victims of battering.

Working With Survivors in Jail: A Manual for Community-Based Advocates

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