Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence

The Creative Interventions Toolkit is a practical guide to community-based interventions to interpersonal violence, also known as community accountability or transformative justice. It is written for everyday people, including survivors, people who caused harm, and friends/family who want to help without turning to the police or services. Community-based interventions build on friendships, family connections, and caring relationships to address violence rather than solutions that rely on policing and punishment. While friends and family are often the "first responders" to violence, many of our communities have lost basic tools to end and prevent violence. The Creative Interventions Toolkit aims to re-build these skills and offer models that can help us with safety, accountability, and community self-determination. The Creative Interventions Toolkit provides: (1) basic information on the dynamics of interpersonal violence (sexual violence, domestic violence and family violence/child abuse); (2) special sections for survivors of violence and for people who have caused harm; (3) guides for facilitators and friends/family who want to help; (4) a basic model or framework to move forward to confront and transform violence; (5) lots of tools for safety, accountability and coordination; and (6) stories from everyday people who have used community-based interventions. Readers will gain knowledge and specific strategies to break isolation and create solutions that can be adapted to many different situations and communities.

About the Author :
Mimi Kim is a co-founder of INCITE! and the founder of Creative Interventions.

Review :
The CI toolkit is my go-to reference whenever I begin a new community accountability intervention. I've often remarked that it is the Bible for most facilitators I know. Mariame Kaba Founder of Project Nia & co-author of Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators This toolkit is essential reading for anyone interested in transformative justice and community responses to violence. It is accessible, concrete, thorough and filled with years and years of lessons...The CI Toolkit offers practical information and practices for transformative justice/community accountability, without shying away from the very real challenges and complexities of this work. The importance of Creative Interventions' work cannot be overstated enough. Mia Mingus Founder of Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC) & author of Leaving Evidence Creative Interventions is an invaluable survivor-centered resource that provides practical tools that use community accountability and transformative justice as viable options instead of the criminal justice system. We can respond to violence without using violence, and Creative Interventions shows us the way. Aishah Shahidah Simmons Director of No! The Rape Documentary & editor of Love With Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse Instead of writing about transformative justice as a theoretical nice idea, the Creative Interventions toolkit is packed with tools and readings to work through the real deal of interrupting violence without the cops...In a bold time when we are closer than ever to making abolition and defunding police and prisons real, this toolkit is more necessary than ever. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarahinsa Co-editor with Ejeris Dixon of Beyond Survival, Author, Care Work The Creative Interventions Toolkit is one of the clearest and most practical resources to build transformative justice and community accountability skills that our movements have...If you want to deepen your practice, through one resource, start here. Ejeris Dixon Co-editor with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarahinsa of Beyond Survival The Creative Interventions Toolkit is the in-depth practical guide that people looking to come together to support people experiencing violence need. It provides a roadmap for doing this important work, helping groups anticipate and navigate common problems. It is thorough and clear, and so essential to building the world we want. Dean Spade Founder of Sylvia Rivera Law Project & author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of the Law