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.
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.
This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter features opportunities for engagement around TDVAM, promising youth-centered programming, and newly released publications.
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 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.
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.
This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter highlights resources for SAAM and Black Maternal Health Week 2023, as well as our newly released DELTA FOCUS story. Resources center strategies for building partnerships to advance equity. We must follow the lead of Black visionaries doing this work. As the National Sexual Violence Resource Center reminds us, prevention demands equity.
February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month (TDVAPM - don't forget the "P"!) and Black History Month. This year the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) is honored to partner with and amplify the voices of Black youth leaders throughout the month of February and beyond.
Creating a world free from violence requires us to boldly and unapologetically confront and dismantle white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and other forms of oppression. This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter highlights upcoming events and new resources that push us to be bolder in our work to end gender-based violence.
For many of us, the collective trauma of COVID-19 and racial injustice, including the white supremacist, anti-Black murders in Buffalo on May 14th, has greatly impacted our mental health and wellness. Our collective grief, pain, and anger can feel at times like too much to bear. But we know that just as all forms of violence are interconnected, so too must be our response to it.
This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter highlights the role of community connection in promoting mental well-being. Resources feature strategies for trauma-informed community building, community care, and healing justice.
This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter features resources and upcoming events that highlight the importance of centering the lived experiences, voices, and leadership of Black women in our work. Doing this will create healthy environments for people to live and be themselves while learning, working, loving, worshiping, playing, and gracefully aging.
In recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) 2021, the Domestic Violence Awareness Project is turning up the heat on last year's call to action: No Survivor Justice Without Racial Justice. This October and beyond, we must center, celebrate, and follow the leadership of Black survivors, leaders, advocates, and frontline workers in our efforts for social transformation. Racial justice is our work.
As we look back on Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence reflects on the National Sexual Violence Resource Center's call to build safe online spaces that are free from harassment and abuse. As more of our time is spent in virtual spaces, we have seen how online communities can be a powerful tool to promote connectedness, activism, and healing justice. This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter features tools that highlight community building as a key strategy for prevention. It includes resources to promote connection and care by building communities that foster healing, resilience, and joy, both online and off.
“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.
"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.
