The Worker Center Handbook: A Practical Guide to Starting and Building the New Labor Movement

[Excerpt] Worker centers are becoming an important element in labor and community organizing and the struggle for fair pay and decent working conditions for low-wage workers, especially immigrants. There are currently more than two hundred worker centers in the country, and more start every month. Most of these centers struggle as they try to raise funds, maintain stable staff, and build a membership base. For this book, Kim Bobo and Marién Casillas Pabellón, two women with extensive experience supporting and leading worker centers, have interviewed staff at a broad range of worker centers with the goal of helping others understand how to start and build their organizations. This book is not theoretical, but rather is designed to be a practical workbook for staff, boards, and supporters of worker centers. Geared toward groups that want to build worker centers, this book discusses how to survey the community, take on an initial campaign, recruit leaders, and raise seed funds. Bobo and Casillas Pabellón also provide a wealth of advice to help existing centers become stronger and more effective. The Worker Center Handbook compiles best practices from around the country on partnering with labor, enlisting the assistance of faith communities and lawyers, raising funds, developing a serious membership program, integrating civic engagement work, and running major campaigns. The authors urge center leaders to both organize and build strong administrative systems. Full of concrete examples from worker centers around the country, the handbook is practical and honest about challenges and opportunities

Violencias e infancias: el abuso sexual infantil hoy

La violencia contra los niños/as y adolescentes se incrementa día tras día. Es una realidad silenciada e invisibilizada. Esta situación interpela nuestra práctica profesional como así también el desempeño de las instituciones que abordan y deben dar respuestas a tales problemáticas. El Abuso Sexual Infantil (ASI) es una de las formas de violencia más grave que afecta e impacta en la subjetividad y en la construcción psíquica de nuestros niños y niñas. Es una de las formas de abuso de poder y dominio sobre la niñez más dolorosa. A nivel mundial, el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF) estima que una de cada diez niñas han sido víctimas de violencia sexual. De acuerdo a la información que maneja la Fundación para el Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer (FEIM), en Argentina no existen datos oficiales a nivel nacional, pero se estima que uno/a de cada cinco niños/as son abusados por un familiar directo antes de los dieciocho años. La edad media de inicio del abuso es de ocho años.Violence against children and adolescents is increasing day by day. It is a reality silenced and invisible. This situation challenges our professional practice as well as the performance of the institutions that address and should give answers to such problems. Child Sexual Abuse is one of the most serious forms of violence that affects and impacts on the subjectivity and psychic construction of our children. It is one of the forms of abuse of power and mastery over the most painful childhood. Worldwide, UNICEF estimates that one in ten girls have been victims of sexual violence. According to information provided by the Foundation for the Study and Research of Women (FEIM), in Argentina there are no official data at the national level, but it is estimated that one in five children are abused by a direct relative before the eighteen years. The average age of onset of abuse is eight years.Mesa de trabajos libres: Psicología Juridico-ForenseFacultad de Psicologí

Violencias e infancias: el abuso sexual infantil hoy

La violencia contra los niños/as y adolescentes se incrementa día tras día. Es una realidad silenciada e invisibilizada. Esta situación interpela nuestra práctica profesional como así también el desempeño de las instituciones que abordan y deben dar respuestas a tales problemáticas. El Abuso Sexual Infantil (ASI) es una de las formas de violencia más grave que afecta e impacta en la subjetividad y en la construcción psíquica de nuestros niños y niñas. Es una de las formas de abuso de poder y dominio sobre la niñez más dolorosa. A nivel mundial, el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF) estima que una de cada diez niñas han sido víctimas de violencia sexual. De acuerdo a la información que maneja la Fundación para el Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer (FEIM), en Argentina no existen datos oficiales a nivel nacional, pero se estima que uno/a de cada cinco niños/as son abusados por un familiar directo antes de los dieciocho años. La edad media de inicio del abuso es de ocho años.Violence against children and adolescents is increasing day by day. It is a reality silenced and invisible. This situation challenges our professional practice as well as the performance of the institutions that address and should give answers to such problems. Child Sexual Abuse is one of the most serious forms of violence that affects and impacts on the subjectivity and psychic construction of our children. It is one of the forms of abuse of power and mastery over the most painful childhood. Worldwide, UNICEF estimates that one in ten girls have been victims of sexual violence. According to information provided by the Foundation for the Study and Research of Women (FEIM), in Argentina there are no official data at the national level, but it is estimated that one in five children are abused by a direct relative before the eighteen years. The average age of onset of abuse is eight years.Mesa de trabajos libres: Psicología Juridico-ForenseFacultad de Psicologí