Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2012

April 2012 has been designated as Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) and the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA) is excited to partner with public officials, college campuses, law enforcement, victim advocates and communities across California to raise awareness.

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Assemblymember Das Williams to speak on Sexually Oriented Business Tax

by Jessica Renee Napier on May 17, 2012

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On May 21 at 10 a.m., Assemblymember Das Williams (D-Santa Barbara) will discuss the importance of supporting AB 2441, which would tax strip clubs and distribute such funds toward vital services at California’s rape crisis centers. He, along with the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, executive directors from local rape crisis centers and a survivor of sexual violence, will address the current status and needs of sexual assault services in California. [click to continue…]

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Working with the Media to End Child Sexual Abuse

by Jessica Renee Napier on May 17, 2012

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This web conference is sponsored by Ms. Foundation for Women.

This web conference is the second in a series of nine web conferences on Ending Child Sexual Abuse. This is a collaboration between PreventConnect and Ms. Foundation for Women. Please see the materials and recordings of the previous web conference “Including Efforts to End Child Sexual Abuse within the Sexual Violence Prevention Movement.”

The second web conference on June 7, 2012, is titled “Working with the Media to End Child Sexual Abuse.” Media plays a powerful role in the public and policy leaders understanding of the problem and of potential solutions. Studies related to the coverage of child sexual abuse and its prevention from both Berkley Media Studies Group and Frameworks Institute will be discussed along with the implications for prevention strategies. This session is a must see for anyone who is frustrated with the way the media portrays child sexual abuse and wants to know how we can do this differently. [click to continue…]

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House version of VAWA, H.R. 4970, passes on May 16

May 17, 2012

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CALCASA has been following the Violence Against Women Act, both the Senate version and the House version. The Senate version passed April 26. This version included provisions for immigrant, LGBTQ, and tribal communities, advancing the work that we as advocates do to protect survivors of intimate partner and domestic violence. The House version of VAWA,

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DELTA Countdown: Resources for violence prevention

May 16, 2012

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On May 7-8, 2012, representatives from 38 state domestic violence coalitions, national resource centers and the CDC gathered at the National Prevention Symposium to strengthen domestic violence prevention efforts, and highlight the work of the DELTA and DELTA PREP programs. One of the most exiting workshops was the DELTA Countdown that shared resources and tools

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Moving Upstream 2.0

May 15, 2012

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Check out the newest edition of the Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance’s prevention newsletter Moving Upstream. They will continue to share insights about prevention practice while coordinating with other national prevention efforts. In an attempt to pool resources and create a national primary prevention community around sexual and intimate partner violence issues, much

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The Future is in our Past: Report from Ending Child Sexual Abuse web conference

May 14, 2012

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Here is a guest blog by Cordelia Anderson and Joan Tabachnick, co-hosts of the Ending Child Sexual Abuse (ECSA) Web Conference Series that CALCASA’s national project PreventConnect is co-sponsoring with Ms. Foundation for Women. With over 60 years of experience across the three eloquent speakers, the Ms. Foundation for Women (MFW) launched the new web

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