The World Institute on Disability (WID) received funding from the National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation and Research (NIDRR) to develop a new Curriculum on Abuse Prevention and Empowerment (CAPE). The completed curriculum (anticipated for fall of 2008) will explore fundamental issues of abuse, best-practices training approaches, and stories of disabled people confronting and resisting abuse. CAPE also helps teachers adapt learning activities for use at disability and community events, rehabilitation sessions, schools and independent living training sessions.

Some CAPE resources are now available for free use via the WID website. these include excerpts from the forthcoming book, Sticks and Stones: Disabled People's Stories of Abuse, Defiance and Resilience, a collection of stories showing how people with disabilities have successfully resisted abuse; a teaching guide; movies, comic book scenes, quizzes and games to accommodate various levels of literacy.
Resources are available in English and Spanish. For more information go to the WID web site.http://tinyurl.com/5wd5nz

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REFERENCE POINTS is administered by PACER Center http://www.PACER.org as a technical assistance activity of the TATRA Project. The TATRA Project is funded by the Rehabilitation Services Administration.