As our collective context shifts in response to the coronavirus pandemic, so too has the work to prevent sexual and intimate partner violence. Join PreventConnect to learn how people working to prevent sexual and intimate partner violence have adapted to the challenges of the past year and met the moment to forge new possibilities and a new normal.
“Here’s to the light that we deserve and to the love that we most definitely deserve.” – Carmen Dixon, Youth Activist
This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter features tools that center and celebrate the leadership of youth, especially Black girls. It includes resources to promote youth activism and young people's well-being by building connected communities that foster resilience, joy, and transformative action.
Youth, teens, and young adults have shown, time and time again, their powerful and passionate leadership across social issues. Arlene Vassell and Angela Lee join this PreventConnect podcast to discuss ways mainstream agencies and organizations can support youth leadership year round to prevent teen dating violence and other forms of violence and oppression.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, sexual violence prevention practitioners adapted and implemented various in-person programs and curricula in their communities. Join this webinar for a discussion on how and why programs can adapt during COVID-19.
"No community has had it easy during COVID-19. Those with a consistent health equity focus before the pandemic have found advantages in dealing with the crisis."
RALIANCE in partnership with the Roll Red Roll social impact team, Open Door Abuse Awareness Prevention, and MenChallenging has created two toolkits to help coaches, athletic administrators, guidance counselors, and sexual violence prevention advocates discuss the film with their student athletes and spark social change. Join PreventConnect for a web conference to learn more about using these toolkits from the authors.
The Confess Project's mission is to bridge the gaps in mental health care by providing a safe space for people to talk openly about the struggles they face.
"I would like to suggest that asking how to continue a prevention program in the midst of a worldwide pandemic actually is a red flag that your prevention programming may not be as inclusive or community-centered as it needs to be. Put more bluntly, the question about implementing 'prevention programs' implies that prevention is separate from upholding the health and wellness of our communities, which is tied to the 'either/or thinking' characteristic of white supremacy culture."
The Multicultural Efforts to End Sexual Assault (MESA), in conjunction with the Indiana Department of Health, is pleased to announce a virtual conference titled “Digging Deeper: Using a Social/Cultural Lens to Address Sexual Violence Prevention in Latina Communities." This free, one-day, virtual conference will be held on Jan. 27, 2021, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Join PreventConnect as presenters explore how storytelling can be used as a tool to promote positive social norms and teach skills to prevent sexual and intimate partner violence.
Join PreventConnect as presenters explore the process of identifying essential elements of community-level strategies. The web conference will present major concepts from CDC guidance and highlight a practical tool that practitioners can use to estimate the essential elements of a range of strategies.
This web conference will go back to basics and provide a foundation for understanding the importance of primary prevention, examples of prevention in the real world, and key resources to expand prevention knowledge. Join PreventConnect as presenters leave the jargon behind and explore in plain language what it means to prevent violence in the first place.
"We need to build an entirely new table with all the communities we want to serve.” – Cecily Johnson, Domestic Violence Network
This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter offers inspiration for moving forward, sharing takeaways and action steps from recent national gatherings and observances including the National Prevention Town Hall and Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2020.
This web conference will go back to basics and provide a foundation for understanding the importance of primary prevention, examples of prevention in the real world, and key resources to expand prevention knowledge.
Join the authors of “Emergent Space: Finding an Alternative” on this web conference to discuss potential applications of emergent spaces, explore the need for intentional connection in prevention spaces, and identify ways to center humanity and interconnectedness while in a physically distant, often virtual, context.
Collective self-governance is an indigenous model rooted in care for the land, natural resources, cultural heritage, well-being and thriving that has historical roots in North America and in indigenous practice generally. Join Resonance Network and PreventConnect as presenters share reflections, experience, and practice around the #WeGovern principles.
