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Prevention

How can we prevent the most violence?

March 15, 2010

posted in: Prevention

Caroline Palmer, staff attorney at the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault, has written a very nice article in the March 2010 issue of the Violence Against Women Monitor about the importance of primary prevention.
She writes
“…we’ve asked ‘How can we lock up the most dangerous?’ We should be asking, ‘How can we prevent the most violence?’

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Migrant workers and prevention

March 10, 2010

posted in: Prevention

The Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs (WCSAP) has released its latest issue of Partners in Social Change.  This issue focuses on sexual violence prevention among migrant workers. Articles include an interview with Emiliano Diaz de Leon talking about Migrant Clinicians Network’s Hombres Unidos Contra la Violencia Familiar (Men United Against Family Violence), Kimber Nicoletti on

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Gathering activities and exercises for children and youth

March 9, 2010

posted in: Prevention

(13 min) In this interview, four educators and advocates discuss the creation of the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence’s (Vermont Network) Youth and Child Advocate and Educator Manual of Activities and Exercises for Children and Youth.

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Framing: Developing the language to support sexual violence prevention efforts

March 8, 2010

posted in: Prevention

Web Conference
This web conference is intended for to CALCASA members, CPEDV members, and California RPE Program grantees.
In this conference, participants will be introduced to framing and develop strategies for honing their communication works in ways that raise awareness of sexual violence, promote prevention and create opportunities for unified messaging with allies.

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Developing the Boys to Men program

March 4, 2010

posted in: Prevention

(22 min) In this interview, Jeff Morrill talks about Boys to Men, an educational program in Portland, Maine, focused on supporting the development of adolescent boys into healthy, non-violent men. He describes the origins of the Boys to Men program, the construction of its curriculum, and the ways that it uses bystander intervention training as

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What is the role of parents to prevent sexual victimization?

March 4, 2010

posted in: Prevention

Typically when I think of sexual violence prevention efforts for college students I think of school based education and attempts to shift the college culture.  I typically do not consider the role of parents. A recent study ePublished in Prevention Science examines a parent based intervention to prevent college women’s sexual victimization. The logic of

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