The Green Motel
That’s what some women farmworkers call the fields and orchards in which they face persistent sexual assaults. As if backbreaking work, low wages and pesticide poisoning weren’t enough… (article appeared first in Ms Mazazine's summer online issue)
Domestic Violence Monograph
Preventing partner violence in refugee and immigrant communities
This issue of Forced Migration Review, features an article about the Strengthening What Works initiative called "Preventing partner violence in refugee and immigrant communities." The article provides an overview of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative for readers in the humanitarian and public health sectors and features information about MCN's program Hombres Unidos.
Family Violence Prevention
Since the mid-1990s, MCN has been involved in varied prevention projects aimed at raising public awareness about family violence and the resources available for battered migrant and immigrant women.
National Audio-Conference on MCN's violence prevention project Hombres Unidos
Speakers: Researcher/Principal Trainer: Emiliano Diaz de Leon, TAASA and MCN, TX. Practitioners: Jerry Tello, National Compadres Network, CA, and Judge Ramona Gonzalez, WI; hosted by Barbara Hart, Muskie School Article: Hombres Unidos.
Documentation of a positive IPV screen among community hospital clinicians
Love heals; hostility hurts
New research shows that hostile marriages slow recovery from wounds.
MCN's Family Violence Prevention Initiatives
To learn more about MCN's programs, click below on each program title.
Hombres Unidos Contra la Violencia Familiar
Hombres Unidos Recognized Nationally
2013 Mary Byron Foundation Celebrating Solutions Roth Award
Hombres Unidos receives the 2013 Roth Award. The Mary Byron Project is a national thought leader on domestic violence. The Roth Award recognizes Hombres Unidos as an innovative project that specifcally addresses the needs of underserved populations.
MCN talks about Hombres Unidos on PreventConnect
Interested in Hombres Unidos?
