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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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.

Podcast: Domestic Violence Awareness & Prevention Month 2021

Date: 
Thursday, 30 September 2021

Arlene Vassell and Casey Keene of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence join this PreventConnect podcast to discuss the theme and ongoing call-to-action for Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month 2021.

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.

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.

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