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CALCASA member receives 2012 Visionary Voice Award

April 26, 2012

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In observance of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) highlights individuals throughout the country whose outstanding prevention work is making a significant impact in their communities. For the 2012 Visionary Voice Award, the NSVRC posthumously awarded Karen Cooper, Executive Director of Family Services of Tulare County, as the Californian recipient for

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Disability, Disability Justice & Shared Values with Prevention

April 26, 2012

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Transforming Communities has released its newest edition of its newsletter Catalyst Connections titled Disability, Disability Justice & Shared Values with Prevention. This newsletter raises many important issues for domestic violence and sexual violence prevention: As prevention advocates, our commitment to meeting diverse needs is ongoing and complex. Both Disability Justice and Universal Design frameworks have

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Futures Without Violence’s Y Factor Summit

April 18, 2012

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CALCASA’s Chad Sniffen was happy to be part of a pannel about using “Social Media for Social Good” at Futures Without Violence‘s recent Y Factor Summit. As described by Futures Without Violence: Our first-ever national summit, called the Y Factor: Men Leading By Example, launched on Thursday, April 12, and was a day filled with

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta addresses controversy regarding military sexual assaults

April 17, 2012

posted in: CALCASA,prevention

Yesterday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced the implementation of  new steps and sanctions to address sexual assault in the military. In recent weeks, attention has been drawn to increased rates of sexual violence in the military, especially at military academies: The Defense Department’s “Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies”

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Our Mission is to End the Violence: Talking primary prevention in South Carolina

April 16, 2012

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Last week I had the opportunity to speak at the South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault’s Annual Sexual Violence Conference in Columbia. Over hundred people gathered for two days of presentations and workshops. My opening plenary session was titled “Our mission is to end the violence” where I described why primary prevention

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Building organizational capacity for prevention

April 16, 2012

posted in: CALCASA,prevention

When I think of capacity building, I think of resources: number of staff, funding, office space, printed materials, etc. When I read the March 2012 Technical Assistance Memo from the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, I started to reframe my thinking about “capacity” not as physical stuff we need to provide prevention education

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