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David Fontes, who served so well as Director of SAFE this last year, is passing on the torch. The SAFE board will be deciding on a new Director soon. Thanks for all of your work this last year, David!

The safe-admin and safe-support lists have moved. See the help page for details.

Scientific American will be doing an article on battered men around May or so. (3/18/99)

Oprah Winfrey did a show on battered men on March 1st, 1999. (3/18/99)

News Media Misrepresents JAMA Report on Violence Toward Women by Jeff Gibbs. This is a letter replying to the way much of the media has responded to a JAMA report on domestic violence.

There seems to be a lot of interest in the issue of battered men recently due to Phil Hartman's murder case. I've been contacted by several reporters from the media. (6/8/98).

The Georgia Straight, a weekly in Vancouver, B.C., recently did a long front page article about battered men, in which SAFE was mentioned. (6/8/98)

The online support group, safe-support, has been very active recently, and very helpful for the people involved. If you're interested in joining this group, instructions are available on the help page.

There have been several additions to the help page, including some shelters in Texas, and some places in Florida. (3/17/98)

I've added in a flyer page (at http://www.dgp.utoronto.ca/~jade/safe/flyer.html) that people can go to, print out, and use as a flyer to hand out or put up anywhere you like. Many people from libraries, shelters, and so on were asking for this. If you know someone who might be interested in SAFE's services, you can print them out this page and let them decide for themselves. (3/5/98)

San Diego now offers a comprehensive toll-free 24-hour domestic violence hotline. This hotline provides referrals to a variety of services such as: Domestic Violence shelter bed availability, Counseling services, Support Group services, Emergency Food and Clothing, Legal services, Anti-Stalking information, and other available community resources. The services are provided to people throughout San Diego County. The phone number is 1-888-305-SAFE (7233) I called and talked with an employee there, and they provide services for everyone -- men, women, straight or gay. They also told me that there is a shelter for gay men and lesbian women there (call 619-692-2077) and the YWCA has counseling services for men that are abused (call 619-270-4504). Let me know what kind of experiences you have with these services, please. (12/24/97)

From: b.i.butler@worldnet.att.net
Bruce Butler currently has funding for:

adult victims (men and women) of domestic violence, and
gay and lesbian victims of domestic violence.

Programs are offered in Broward County, FL. Bruce I. Butler, LCSW (954) 564-5751. Funding allows for little (max. $17.00/session) to no cost to the individual. Most people do qualify for no cost. (12/24/97)

September 8-11, 1998 in Delhi, India, will be the World Conference on Family Violence, an event sponsored by the YWCA of the USA and People to People Ambassador Programs. "The goal of the World Conference on Family Violence is to focus on practical, sustainable solutions to family violence, child abuse, elder abuse, and spousal abuse... The Conference is dedicated to sharing solutions that can be implemented in different cultures to stem the growing trend of family violence. For questions about the conference, see their webpage, http://www.wcfv.org/, or contact Lara Bracamonte at 1-800-720-6115 or (509) 534-0430 ext. 465 or e-mail larab@ambassadors.com. (11/22/97)

ABC News 20/20 did a story on battered men recently. This is probably the first national story on abused men. For copies of the transcript or a videotape of the story, call 1-800-913-3434. Also available at: http://www.abcnews.com/onair/2020/html_files/index.html (10/17/97)

An excellent book about battered men has recently been published. I've read a copy of the manuscipt version, and it was excellent. For more information, go to Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence or even better Abused Men, a site about his book. I strongly recommend this book. (10/14/97)

The SafeHouse chat room and the message board have been taken down. The chat room wasn't used very much, and some computer changes prevent me from having the message board up. (6/27/97)

SAFE is looking for more information and resources for lesbian women. Please mail us anything you have! (4/20/97)

Ann Landers prints a letter from a battered man in her 4/18/97 column talking about his difficulties in finding a support group for himself. She replies with some good statistics that talk about the pervasiveness of this problem. (4/19/97)

The Detroit News is doing a front page article on battered men (4/20). SAFE is mentioned in a side-bar. (4/19/97)

Anyone who is willing to talk with the media about their experiences with abuse, please contact jade@cs.utoronto.ca. I'm compiling a media contact list, so that I can quickly refer the media to people who are willing to talk about their experiences. Please send me an e-mail saying your name, age, and geographic location. Also contact information, and whether or not you'd like to be anonymous. Media people can contact me if they're looking for contacts. This list is for people from all over the world, not just the US. (4/2/97)

Todd A. Migliaccio thanks everyone who responded to his request for interviews. He'd like to wish everyone who's dealing with this issue luck, and welcomes questions about research and studies being done on the topic of domestic violence against men. Todd is a graduate student of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside, who conducting a study of men that have been in abusive relationships. Contact him by e-mail at tmigliac@wizard.ucr.edu. (3/26/97)

"Attention! ABC News 20/20 is seeking men to possibly interview for an upcoming segment. If you are a male who has been a victim of domestic violence and you fit the following criteria you may call and tell your story:

You were in a married or cohabiting relationship with a woman and experienced on-going (lasting over a period of a year or more) physical abuse. The abuse must be primarily physical, not just emotional abuse, though of course, that is a component. The abuse should have been serious enough to have caused some injury.
The abuse can be documented. That is, you should have some independent means of verification. This should at least be a credible objective person who saw the abuse take place or it's immediate aftermath. For example, (neighbor, lawyer, co-worker, or other non-friend or relative). Even better, if there is a police or medical report that can be obtained. Best of all, pictures of the injuries.
You should be able to feel comfortable telling your story without much hesitation.
When calling, please tell 20/20 you were referred by SAFE. Leave a message if there was no answer, and quickly give the highlights (particularly that the abuse was serious physical abuse, was on-going and can be verified) and a phone number where you can be contacted.

Note this is outdated...

We will keep you posted as we find out more about this exciting event." (3/6/97)

David Fontes is a doctoral student at Professional School of Psychology in Sacramento, California. He is developing his dissertation proposal on the topic of domestic violence against men. That he plans to do a quantitative study in the next two year. In preparation for the project, he is interested in interviewing at least 20 men who have been victims of domestic violence. He plans on developing an Injury Index, to determine the levels of physical injury men receive from the assaults and a Self-Care Index, to determine the levels of self-care men give to themselves after being assualted, such as bandaging themself vs. going to the hospital or receiving professional medical assistance. He also hopes to determine the percentage of women who initiate the first assualt and the percentage of men that report it to the authorities or social service agancies. If they don't report it, why? You can contact him at Spindrift9@aol.com. (4/23/97)

SAFE-support has just been set up. This is a mailing list for people who are interested in talking about their experiences, discuss where they can get help, offer advice and support for each other, etc... To participate in this list, write to majordomo@lists.uoregon.edu and put subscribe safe-support jarubick@ursula.uoregon.edu in the body of your message. Use your own e-mail address instead of jarubick. SAFE-admin is for people interested in providing services and information. It is a place to network with people all over the world who are interested in doing something in their communities about partnership violence. To subscribe, do the same as above, but instead of safe-support, write safe-admin. (2/2/97)

J. White is compiling and maintaining a resource list for domestic violence and other types of abuse services. It will be broken down by type of service and geographic location. If you know of any services for people in domestic violence situation, especially for straight men or gays or lesbians, please contact J. White and ask to include that service on the list. (12/9/96)