Events

Monthly Preventionist Huddle

Date: 
Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Event Announcement

Violence prevention is essential work, but as preventionists, we often get isolated from one another. Join Women's Advocates the second Wednesday of every month from 1:30-2:30pm, starting May 11th!

Engaging Men National Strategy Center Launch

Date: 
Wednesday, 18 May 2022

Webinar Announcement

Session 1: Wednesday, May 18th at Noon Eastern / 9:00 AM Pacific 

Session 2: Wednesday, May 18th at 2:00 PM Eastern / 11:00 AM Pacific

​​​​​These interactive sessions will train participants in how to navigate Futures Without Violence's new National Strategy Center on Engaging Men to End Gender-Based Violence website, outline how the website’s content can best support their initiatives, and create connections between those involved in engaging men projects across the country.

WeGovern in practice: Narrating a future for our communities

Date: 
Thursday, 9 December 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

When WeGovern, we build what we will become by telling stories about our shared future. In this session from PreventConnect, presenters will narrate a vision of our communities so that we may create it together. 

From Global to Local: Learning from international prevention programs to inform sexual and intimate partner violence prevention in the U.S.

Date: 
Wednesday, 8 December 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

This web conference will examine global perspectives and lessons on preventing sexual and intimate partner violence from practitioners working outside the United States, and will explore how these strategies can inform the work of U.S.-based prevention practitioners, particularly those working with immigrant communities.

Connecting with Community to Prevent Sexual & Intimate Partner Violence During Crisis: Lessons Learned from Minnesota

Date: 
Tuesday, 16 November 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

Join PreventConnect and preventionists from Minnesota to discuss how they envision community connectedness as a protective factor against sexual and intimate partner violence across the socioecological model, and how this enabled them to identify new avenues for strengthened partnerships.

Register now for the 2021 National Prevention Town Hall

Date: 
Friday, 22 October 2021

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with partners from across the Southern region of the United States, invites you to join us for our second virtual Prevention Town Hall on Thursday, October 28 and Friday, October 29. This event is an opportunity to dig deeper into this year’s theme for Domestic Violence Awareness Month: No Survivor Justice Without Racial Justice.

Trauma-Informed Principles Are for Everyone: Supporting and Sustaining Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Practitioners

Date: 
Monday, 1 November 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

Join PreventConnect on this web conference where guests will discuss how they’ve engaged businesses and diverse work environments and sectors in integrating trauma-informed principles to their workplaces and how internal organizational shifts are key to improving relationships with communities involved in sexual and intimate partner violence prevention.

WeGovern in practice: Claiming governance in our communities

Date: 
Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

In this session hosted by Resonance Network and PreventConnect, participants will engage with the WeGovern principles in relationship to our own lives, families, and communities and hear stories from people practicing liberatory governance in theirs.

Centering Survivors for Transformative Change: Exploring economic supports to prevent sexual and intimate partner violence with FreeFrom

Date: 
Monday, 4 October 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

Join PreventConnect and the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence for a conversation with FreeFrom, a national organization working to advance financial security for intimate partner violence survivors. This web conference will discuss FreeFrom’s three pillars of financial security work, as well as examine economic support policies within organizations and communities and their impacts on preventing violence from occurring.

Pivots in Prevention: College Campus Sexual Violence Prevention and COVID-19

Date: 
Tuesday, 19 October 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

Join PreventConnect and guests from the University of California, Berkeley and the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence to learn about the strategies they are implementing on two-year and four-year college campuses and their visions for the future.

Wrapping Up This Series: Where do we go from here to prevent sexual violence during COVID-19?

Date: 
Friday, 17 September 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

At the conclusion of the Sexual Violence Prevention During COVID-19: Adapting in an Ever-Changing Landscape series, join PreventConnect and NSVRC for this web conference where participants will reflect on key learnings from earlier web conferences in this series and explore ways to transform those learnings into action despite an ever-changing COVID-19 landscape

A Conversation with the Authors of Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus

Date: 
Wednesday, 29 September 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

Join PreventConnect for a web conference conversation with Jennifer Hirsch and Shamus Khan, authors of Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus. They will discuss what their campus research found, the implications for prevention, and what campus preventionists and others on campuses can do to go beyond education to create protective environments for students.

Walking in balance with all our relations: Leadership from and partnerships with Indigenous communities to end gender-based violence and restore wellbeing

Date: 
Thursday, 9 September 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

Join PreventConnect and the Prevention Institute in this conference where participants will learn about Visioning B.E.A.R. Circle Intertribal Coalition’s prevention education and training and technical assistance work to eliminate interpersonal violence in tribal, intertribal, or multicultural communities.

U.S. National Action Plan on Gender-Based Violence: A Listening Session on Prevention /Plan de Acción Nacional de Estados Unidos sobre la Violencia de Género: Una Sesión de Escucha Sobre la Prevención

Date: 
Friday, 3 September 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

The White House Gender Policy Council is developing a U.S. National Action Plan on Gender-Based Violence. PreventConnect will host a listening session on Friday, September 3rd at 11 a.m. Pacific / 2 p.m. Eastern to inform prevention in the development of the Action Plan. El Consejo de Política de Género de la Casa Blanca está elaborando un Plan de Acción Nacional sobre la Violencia de Género en los Estados Unidos. PreventConnect organizará una sesión de escucha el viernes 3 de septiembre a las 11 a.m. del Pacífico / 2 p.m. del Este para informar sobre la prevención en el desarrollo del Plan de Acción

Intersectional justice and safety from sexual violence: Spotlights from a new report on health equity strategies

Date: 
Tuesday, 24 August 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

Join this webinar to hear from presenters from Prevention Institute and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center as they share about a new joint publication on health equity and sexual violence prevention.

Advancing and connecting racial justice and sexual violence prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic

Date: 
Wednesday, 14 July 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

Join the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and PreventConnect on this web conference where guests from Ujima, Inc. and Girls for Gender Equity will describe their racial justice and sexual violence prevention in action, what’s changed during COVID-19, and their guidance for how mainstream organizations and the movement to end sexual violence can pivot to new ways of doing our work.

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