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Community Psychology: Common Values, Diverse Practicesof age, gender, education, or socioeconomic status; and the best way to be respected is not through power andcontrol but through respecting others.” Thus, the notion of respect provided an opportunity to challengepatriarchal structure and practices within the family and community in a manner that was socio-culturally morecongruent and less threatening than more direct, often individually-oriented, “Western” approaches that stress“women’s agency and empowerment.”Often, efforts to prevent IPV are seen as contributing to breakup of the family; we sought ways to promote IPVprevention that embraced the importance of keeping families together. In fact, our campaign message wentbeyond keeping the family together, and emphasized “strengthening” family relationships through mutual respectand open communication.The campaign activities ended in the spring of 2009. A small group of CAT members chose to remain active byjoining another community-based participatory action research project on IPV prevention directed by the author,New Visions: Alliance to End Violence in Asian/Asian American Communities. As of December 2009, wecompleted post-campaign telephone interviews with a random sample of over 550 Gujarati residents, andevaluation of the campaign effectiveness continues as we analyze the pre- and post-campaign interview data.Please visit for more information about The Shanti Project, and for New Visions: Alliance to End Violence in Asian/Asian American Communities.ReferencesAhmad, F., Riaz, S., Barata, P., & Stewart, D.E. (2004). Patriarchal beliefs and perceptions of abuse amongSouth Asian immigrant women. Violence Against Women, 10(3), 262-282.Dasgupta, S.D., & Warrier, S. (1996). In the footsteps of "Arundhati": Asian Indian women's experience ofdomestic violence in the United States. Violence Against Women, 2(3), 238-259.Camarota, S.A. (2007). Immigrants in the United States, 2007: A profile of America's foreign-born population.Washington, DC: Center for Immigration Studies.McDonnell, K.A., & Abdulla, S.E. (2001). Project AWARE: Research Project. Washington, DC: Asian/PacificIslander Domestic Violence Resource Project.Yoshihama, M. (2002). Battered women's coping strategies and psychological distress: Differences byimmigration status. American Journal of Community Psychology, 30(3), 429-452.Yoshihama, M. (2009). Literature on intimate partner violence in immigrant and refugee communities: Review andrecommendations. In Family Violence Prevention Fund (Ed.), Intimate partner violence in immigrant and refugeecommunities: Challenges, promising practices and recommendations (pp. 34-64). Princeton, NJ: Robert WoodJohnson Foundation. Available at: http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=41231Yoshihama, M. & Dabby, C. (2009, September). The facts & stats: Domestic violence in Asian, Native Hawaiianand Pacific Islander Homes. San Francisco, CA: Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence.Available at: http://apiahf.org/images/stories/Documents/publications_database/dv_facts_and_stats.pdf160