CWS often has specific needs that we don't want to spend money on, but that would help us out and enable us to keep funding focused on survivors. Below is a list of items we are currently searching for.

Community Based

• Laptop with wireless capabilities - New or Gently-Used
• Reliable vehicle for transporting clients
• Gift certificates for pay-as-you-go phones (ex. Cricket)

Administration Office

• Printer paper

Shelter

• Bikes for kids and adults
• Wii and games (for working with teens in shelter)
• Gift cards (Gas gards, Winco, Target, Fred Meyer, Walgreens, K-Mart, Safeway, Rite Aid)
• New pajamas
• Art supplies and journals- acrylic pants, paint brushes, general coloring books (i.e. non holiday), markers, tempera paint, sketch pads
• Craft supplies- stamps, ink, felt sheets, paper mache, crafts kits, glue sticks, glue dots

Counseling

• Gift certificates to Borders/Amazon for resource books
• A doll house with family dolls
• Non-violent DS games (for children waiting for counseling)

Girls Groups

• $5 McDonalds gift certificates
• Movie tickets
• Spiral notebooks for journals
• Pens/markers
• Boxes of Capri Sun
• Drawing Sketch Pads, journals, drawing/artist pencils (not school supply pencils)
• A new portable stereo/cd player/radio (to be used in groups)

Literary Resources

Adults

• "Why Does He Do That?" and "When Mom Hurts Dad: Helping Your Children Heal the Wounds of Witnessing Abuse"- Lundy Bancroft
• “The Verbally Abusive Relationship” –Patricia Evans (2-4 copies)
• “Getting Free: You Can End Abuse and Take Back Your Life” –Ginny Nicarthy
• “When Love Goes Wrong: What to Do When You Can’t Do Anything Right.” –
  S. Schechter & A. Jones
• “It’s My Life Now: Starting Over After An Abusive Relationship” –Meg Kennedy Dugan
• “Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty” –Jody Raphael
• “The Changes Everything: The Relational Revolution in Psychology”-Christina Robb
• “Women’s Growth in Connection: Writings from the Stone Center” –Judith V. Jordan
• “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center” –Bell Hooks
• “In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development” –Carol Gilligan
• “How Connections Heal: Stories from Relational-Cultural Therapy” –Maureen Walker –Editor, Wendy B. Rosen
• “The Healing Connection: How Women Form Connections in Both Therapy and in Life” –Jean Baker Miller & Irene Pierce Stiver
• “Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance (Women & Therapy Series) (Women & Therapy Series)” –Carol Gilligan
• “Privilege, Power, and Difference” –Allan G. Johnson
• “Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers” –Nancy Amanda
• “Getting Results Through Collaboration: Netwaorks and Network Structures for Public Policy and Management” –Myrna P. Mandell
• “Roberta’ Rules of Order: Sail Through Meetings for Stellar Results Without the Gavel” –Alice Collier Cochran
• “Parenting by Men Who Batter: New Directions for Assessment and Intervention (Interpersonal Violence)” –Jeffrey L. Edleson & Oliver J. Williams
• “Stalking the Soul” –Marie-France Hirigoyen
• “A Therapist’s Guide to Growing Free: A Manual for Survivors of Domestic Violence” –Michael Hertica & Wendy Deaton
• “Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse” –Dr. Gregory L. Jantz & Ann McMurray
• “The Secret of Overcoming Verbal Abuse: Getting Off the Emotional Roller Coaster and Regaining Control of Your Life” –Albert Ellis & Marcia Grad Powers
• “Verbal Abuse Survivors Speak Out: On Relationship and Recovery” –Patricia Evans
• “Trauma Stewardship, An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others” -Laura van Dernoot Lipsky with Connie Burk
• Working with Self Harming Adolescents –Selekman
• The Macho Paradox- Katz
• Coyote Healing – Mehl Madrona
• Cut- Patricia McCormick
• The Verbally Abusive Relationship, Patricia Evans (2 copies)
• Dragonslippers: This is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like, Rosalind Penfold
• The Courage to Heal, Laura Davis
• Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, Julie Ross and Judy Corcoran
• Was it the Chocolate Pudding?, Sandra Levins
• Dinosaurs Divorce, Marc Brown
• Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
• Dreamland, Sarah Dessen
• Breathing Underwater, Alex Flinn

Children

• Harry Potter Series, especially new “Tales from Beedle the Bard”
• "My Body Belongs to Me" - Jill Starishevsky, Illustrated by Sara Muller
• Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer
• Percy Jackson series
• Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
• Big Words for Little People by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd and Linda Terheyden
• If You Give (books) by Laura Joffe Numeroff and Felicia Bond
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendell
• Purple Crayon books by Crocket Johnson
• Eric Carl Books
• The Going To Bed Book by Sandra Boynton
• Brown, Brown Bear What Do You See by Bill Martin
• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• Love You Forever by Sheila McGraw
• Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss-Glasser
• Guess How Much I Love You by Sam Mcbratney and Anita Jeram
• Bob Book; Beginning Readers by Bobby Lynn Maslen and John R. Maslen
• Room on the Broom by Julie Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
• Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr., John Archambault and Lois Shlert
• Have You Filled a Bucket Today; A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids by Carol McCloud and David Messing
• Bats in the Library by Brian Lies
• Wheels on the Bus by DK Publish
• Big Pumpkin by Erica Sliverman and S.D. Schindler
• Pindalicious by Victoria Kann and Elizabeth Kann
• Corduroy by Don Freeman
• Goodnight Goon by Michael Rex
• Dr. Seuss by Dr. Seuss
• 10 Fat Turkeys by Tony Johnston and Richard F. Deas
• The Feelings Book: The Care & Keeping of Your Emotions (American Girl) by Dr. Lynda Madison and Norm Bendell (Paperback - Sep 2002)

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