“We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” – Gwendolyn Brooks test
What does prevention look like when rooted in community and culture, outside of systems? As we continue to navigate the impact from COVID and the many related shifts we’ve experienced in the past years, our values have transformed and so must our strategies. This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter highlights exciting developments in the prevention field, including NRCDV’s upcoming 5th annual National Prevention Town Hall.
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Our beliefs and values deeply influence actions, policies, and practices, which can be helpful – or harmful – to us, others, and our larger communities. As preventionists strive to incorporate health equity principles into all areas of their prevention practice, we must also work to challenge harmful cultural systemic and cultural norms within ourselves, beginning with how we see and value ourselves as human beings, as part of the work.
The Measuring Love Series is designed to build knowledge and provide tools and guidance for practicing radical love starting with self. It is designed for practitioners and leaders who are and who support people impacted by oppression to be more conscious, explicit, and heart-centered in ways that build love+power for self, teams, and communities.
Join PreventConnect and presenters Shiree Teng and Audrey Jordan to learn about rigorous love for self versus self soothing, with topics:
- Decolonizing love for self is a radical act
- Setting boundaries as love for self
- Being courageously honest is love for self
- Goal setting for radical love for self
“Advocating for your presence to be acknowledged will never fail.” – Shariah Miller, National Youth Prevention Town Hall
In February, we recognize both Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month (TDVAM) and Black History Month (BHM). We are amplifying Love Is Respect’s TDVAM 2024 theme, Love Like That, as we model love as action and an investment in safe and healthy relationships and communities for all. This month and always, we uplift the connections between dating violence prevention and honoring Black history by centering the leadership of Black youth, who “carry the defiance and brilliance of our ancestors.”
This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter features opportunities for engagement around TDVAM, promising youth-centered programming, and newly released publications.
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Do you have experience or familiarity with the gender-based violence movement? Join the NRCDV’s Youth Advisory Board to have your voice heard!
The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence would like to invite you to join our youth advisory board! At NRCDV, we value the experiences and voices of youth. We know that youth are often forgotten and left behind in conversations around gender-based violence. The youth advisory board aims to uplift youth voices, while also giving youth the opportunity to gain leadership skills, build relationships, and more.
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Public health and violence prevention practitioners are increasingly recognizing the critical role that the natural environment plays in shaping relationships and human and environmental health, safety, and wellbeing. In this web conference presenters will explore how we can improve safety and wellbeing and reduce violence through “greening and growing” strategies. Prevention Institute will offer a brief overview of these strategies, particularly in the context of preventing sexual and domestic violence prevention, drawing from those that are included in CDC’s intimate partner violence and sexual violence prevention Resources for Action guides.
Primary prevention of sexual and intimate partner violence can be a complex field filled with technical language, jargon, and acronyms. At the core, though, it means stopping violence before it ever has a chance to happen. 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 we leave the jargon behind and explore in plain language what it means to prevent violence in the first place.
As we wrap up 2023, this is the season to reflect on the year’s highlights, lessons learned, and themes that we want to carry forward. This year, we’ve called for solidarity across movements in order to disrupt systems of anti-Black violence. We’ve gathered with other preventionists and allied changemakers to reflect, plan, and envision the future of our movements. We’ve leaned into shifting power, taking risks, and showing up to dismantle white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and other forms of oppression as we move our work forward.
This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter shares highlights from our 2023 National Prevention Town Hall, features the IPV Prevention Council’s new Strategic Plan for 2023-2026, and includes key resources for moving our work forward into the new year and beyond.
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“Rarely if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.” – bell hooks
As we enter into Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) the Domestic Violence Awareness Project calls on us to Heal, Hold & Center survivors, especially those navigating anti-Blackness and other systems of oppression. Preventing domestic violence requires us to turn to each other, to embrace community care and connection in order to heal ourselves and our communities from the harms of white supremacy and other systems of oppression. It requires us to be survivor-centered and to follow the lead of Black women and gender expansive people. We know that there is no survivor justice without racial justice.
This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter highlights resources for Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Resources feature a particular focus on promoting healing in our communities, holding space, and centering survivors in our prevention efforts.
We live in a society where racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia, classism, and ableism impact our laws, the systems we live in, and the social norms we all live with. This means that if we want to prevent sexual violence from happening, we must be equipped with the tools to understand and dismantle these forces.
Advancing health equity means that we need to recognize and address how oppressive forces compound together to harm marginalized communities and stretch ourselves outside of our professional boxes to work alongside communities in finding solutions.
Join PreventConnect, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and the Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (WCADVSA) for a conversation around how to work toward creating communities free from violence, by building authentic partnerships based on trust and mutual care.
This workshop might be for you if you understand the connection between social justice issues and sexual violence prevention but are struggling with how to work with non-traditional partners and movement leaders (i.e. people working in other sectors of social justice like economic justice, racial justice, reproductive justice, environmental justice, etc.)
As the fifth and final session of Health Equity in Practice: Foundations for Sexual Violence Prevention, this workshop will focus on how to use the foundational knowledge and tools from the first four sessions as a catalyst for change inter-organizationally and in prevention programs by highlighting the 2023 Wyoming Youth Summit.
Staff from WCADVSA, along with partners at the Wind River Reservation, will share about their work to organize a statewide Youth Leadership Summit for indigenous youth, how they created and upheld space at the table for tribal leadership, and what they learned along the way.
Everyone deserves health and safety, yet many communities are faced with barriers that limit access to important resources that allow for optimum levels of health and safety such as housing, jobs with living wages, fresh food, and accessible transportation. These barriers didn’t just appear, but rather they are the outcome of generations of laws, policies, practices, and social norms that have created conditions where sexual and intimate partner violence are more likely. By addressing the reasons that communities have more or less resources and being intentional in the way we select and implement prevention strategies, prevention practitioners can advance health equity and prevent violence.
Join PreventConnect and guests from the Kansas RPE program for a conversation exploring health equity in sexual and intimate partner violence prevention practice. Speakers will explore how the core components of a prevention strategy, including how the strategy is designed and the key messages of the strategy, can be a starting point for integrating health equity into violence prevention work.