“In the face of challenges, our collaborations will sustain us. Our strength is in our connectedness. Together we can build a better world.” – Collaboration Works to Prevent Domestic Violence (June 2025)
Building a culture of peace, safety, and respect is collective work. We have always known that our vision for this future is cultivated through collaboration, but we continue to face challenges in gaining the investment necessary to support it. The truth is that we already have everything we need to build collective power. Now is the time to revisit our why so we can recalibrate our how.
This issue of the PreventIPV Newsletter offers resources and opportunities for engagement that explore the importance of and build investment in collaboration. The strength and health of our partnerships are a model for the cultural change we want to see.
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month. This year, the Youth Advisory Board of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence invites you to join a new campaign designed to normalize and destigmatize experiences of trauma and explore the ways we grow from these experiences towards resilience and healing.
The #TriumphOverTrauma campaign invites you to consider and share your experiences with post-traumatic growth as a pathway towards fostering health and wellbeing in our communities. This issue of the PreventIPV Newsletter offers resources that help us nurture and celebrate the strength in our survivorship on the pathway to prevention.
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“Embracing who you are and making choices that reflect your true self is not only fulfilling but vital to having the life and relationships you deserve.” – Angela Lee, love is respect Director
February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month (TDVAM). For 2025, we are holding the connections between awareness and prevention by exploring the common threads of respect – both for those we are in relationship with, and for ourselves.
This year, we celebrate and uplift love is respect’s theme for TDVAM, “Respect That.” The love is respect Youth Council describes respect as both an action and a mindset. This issue of the PreventIPV Newsletter offers resources that help us actualize respect for each other and ourselves.
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“We can change the conditions so that survivors, especially Black women and gender expansive individuals, can thrive free from violence.” – Pay Equity and a Thriving Wage: All individuals deserve to be valued for their labor
Economic justice is a critical piece of our work to prevent violence. As PreventConnect reminds us, “strengthening economic supports and security for women and families is an effective strategy to prevent not only sexual and intimate partner violence, but also suicide, child abuse, and neglect, and adverse childhood experiences.”
This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter highlights new resources, upcoming professional development opportunities, and exciting developments in the prevention field, with a particular focus on economic justice as a violence prevention strategy.
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