Community Organizing

Healing Roots

The Healing Roots Campaign, created in partnership with Intercambios, is Pennsylvania’s first Latine-focused domestic violence prevention campaign. Built through a year of relationship-building with cultural leaders and community members, it centers Latine voices and cultural values as essential to prevention and healing.

Prevention Resources for Action

CDC’s Prevention Resources for Action provide evidence-based strategies to guide states and communities in preventing violence. These resources combine proven approaches aimed at changing behaviors and environments across multiple sectors to improve public health and safety

Respect That Action Guide

This guide inspires teens to respect that healthy love means setting boundaries, practicing consent, and speaking up against abuse

Healthy Masculinities Toolkit

The NM Healthy Masculinities Toolkit is a collection of community-informed tools designed to spark conversations, challenge harmful gender norms, and promote self-awareness and healing. It invites users to reimagine masculinity in ways that foster healthy relationships and thriving communities

Fatherhood & Father Figures Curriculum

This curriculum promotes the importance of engaging fathers and father figures in early childhood systems of care. It combines stories, tools, and reflective exercises to help professionals strengthen father-focused programming and support child development across communities

Mental Health Support for Black Families

This study by the Child Mind Institute and The Steve Fund explores the mental health experiences of Black families and youth, highlighting barriers to care and offering strategies to improve access, equity, and cultural responsiveness

Health Equity Guide

Comprehensive resource for public health departments and practitioners to plan and implement health equity

Northern NY Call2Men

Community-based engaging-men initiative based in upstate New York

Building Bridges Across the California Ecosystem

White paper outlining steps that communities can take to work toward a future free from gender-based violence

Racial Equity Tools

Tools to support individual and group efforts to learn and work for racial justice at every level

Building Equity into Safer States

Resource to help violence preventionists enhance health equity leadership, partnerships, & programs

Getting Together for Social Justice

Variety of resources to address the root causes of all forms of violence

We Choose All of Us

Campaign promoting self-reflection, community connection, and storytelling

Bloom365

Educates and activates young people to cultivate healthy and safe relationships

Prevention Through Liberation

Explores the links between anti-oppression work and violence prevention

Teaching for Black Lives

Resources for educators to make Black lives matter in curriculum, teaching, and school policy

Toward Community Health and Justice

Summarizes key findings and theories from PreventConnect's 2017 webinar series

#1Thing Action Guide

Preventing domestic violence requires the collective voice and power of individuals, families, institutions, and systems

Powerful Voices

Creates brave spaces with girls of color to take charge of their own power as leaders

Expanding Partnerships & Linkages

Report on the value of collaborating with social justice movements and other community partners to achieve shared goals

Resistance 101

Introductory lesson for students on historical figures who resisted injustice

Awareness + Action = Social Change

This formula calls on communities to be an active part of ending gender-based violence

Young Women's Initiative

Participatory strategy for investing in the future of young women and girls in NYC

Prevention Toybox

Games and discussion activities to support prevention activities at the higher levels of the social ecology

Rethinking Schools

Sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism

Connecting the Dots

Connects forms of violence and supports strategic thinking that considers culture and community context

Girls for Gender Equity

Intergenerational organization for physical, psychological, social, and economic development of girls & women

STOP SV

Compilation of a core strategies to reduce the overall incidence of sexual violence based on the best available evidence

DoSomething.org

Supporting young people interested in social change efforts

The Mask You Live In

Film follows boys & young men as they negotiate America’s narrow definition of masculinity

The Freechild Project

Impressive and inspiring database collection of youth-led activities occurring all over the world

School Girls Unite

Addressing human rights issues such as gender equality, universal basic education, and child marriage prevention

Prevent Violence NC

Cooperative statewide effort encouraging coordinated violence prevention initiatives across North Carolina

IPV/SV Prevention Course

This course presents an evidence-based public health and life course prevention approach

Our Gender Revolution

Explores concepts of gender and inequality to engage young people as social change agents

Community Readiness for Change

Step-by-step instructions for conducting readiness assessments or effective program development and planning

Engaging Boys and Men

Article describes the efforts of the MenCare+: Engaging Men in a 4 country Initiative

Community Resilience Cookbook

Compilation of lessons learned and an interactive tool for fostering collective impact to build resilient communities

Involved Fatherhood Project

Explores the positive roles of fathers and fatherhood programs in promoting gender equality and healthy relationships

Railroaders Against Violence Everywhere

Replication manual for school-based primary prevention male youth engagement program model

Embracing Prevention as Social Change

Guide for local programs to build organizational capacity for primary prevention activities

Finding the Perfect Shade of Change

Guidance for practitioners on building effective community-based prevention strategies

Youth Activist Prevention Toolkit

Toolkit for youth activists to prevent teen dating violence in their communities and schools

Helping Teens Stop Violence

Prepares adults for working with young people to address violence and oppression

Move to End Violence

Ten year movement building initiative to strengthen leaders, organizations, and the work

Evaluation for Improvement

Manual to help organizations work with an empowerment evaluator

Making the Peace

Program for helping high school students build safer schools, relationships, and communities