Prevent IPV News

Check here for regular updates about happenings in the prevention field including emerging programs and campaigns, upcoming events and funding announcements, and the release of publications and reports relevant to the primary prevention of intimate partner violence.

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New Funding Opportunity from The Allstate Foundation

Date: 
Tuesday, 24 August 2021

The Allstate Foundation is thrilled to announce a new funding opportunity for youth empowerment and relationship violence prevention programs that are advancing racial equity. The Allstate Foundation will provide $3 million in grants to nonprofit programs addressing the focus areas of relationship violence prevention and inclusive leadership for youth and educators.

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.

Youth of Color Take Action in Preventing Sexual Harassment in Bay Area

Date: 
Monday, 26 July 2021

In order to make Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) safer for females and gender-expansive people, Reminie Chaidez and 99 other paid youth joined forces with Alliance for Girls to launch a campaign against gender-based violence in the country’s fifth largest transit system. As part of the effort, over 300 posters featuring young people and anti-sexual harassment messaging now appear in BART’s traincars, stations and billboards.

Creating Safe Spaces: Lessons Learned from DELTA FOCUS

Date: 
Thursday, 8 July 2021

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence has released the fifth of its 7-part series of stories for the Innovation section of the PreventIPV website.

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.

Gender Transformative Strategies to Prevent Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence: Exploring Outcomes from Manhood 2.0 Implementation

Date: 
Tuesday, 29 June 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 with researchers and implementers from Manhood 2.0, a gender transformative program to prevent sexual and intimate partner violence.

Truth, healing, and transformation: Addressing structural racism and building multiracial solidarity to prevent sexual and domestic violence

Date: 
Wednesday, 2 June 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 web conference, we’ll hear from BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) leaders who are facilitating truth-telling, healing, and transformation at the intersection of racial and gender justice. They will discuss the importance of addressing the historic and present-day legacies of colonization, genocide, slavery, and other forms of structural racism for a safety and equity now and into the future.

Spring 2021 Newsletter: SAAM Reflections - Healing Our Communities is Prevention

Date: 
Friday, 7 May 2021

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.

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