More and more the field of sexual and domestic violence is using social change models as part of their prevention strategies. The commitment to social change and understanding sexual and domestic violence in the context of oppression is not without challenges. Learn from others whose approaches compliment or collaborate with a social justice approach in order to change the norms that support sexual and domestic violence.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

11 AM to 12:30 PM Pacific Time (2 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern)

Host:David Lee, CALCASA, PreventConnect

Aparna Bhattacharyya

Tony Porter

Guest Speakers:

• Tony Porter, Co-Founder, A CALL TO MEN
• Aparna Bhattacharyya, Executive Director, Raksha

Learning Objectives:

1. Engage in a candid discussion about the challenges and opportunities in developing partnerships and dynamic collaboration.
2. Provide examples of lessons learned from people and agencies with experience.
3. Identify opportunities to incorporate population-based efforts such as organizational practice and policy change within the collaboration.
4. Identify potential indicators for measuring the impact and outcomes of efforts.

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Lina Juarbe Botella

In this PreventConnect podcast, Tony Porter of A CALL TO MEN, Lina Juarbe Botella, a Milwaukee community member, and James Mosley of the Alma Center speak about the Milwaukee Healthy Manhood Project. After a 2009 workshop in Milwaukee lead by A CALL TO MEN, community-based efforts have begun to engage community organizations to address men’s violence against women.

Milwaukee Healthy Manhood Project

Sexual and domestic violence are community problems that require community-based solutions. But the dominant way to look at sexual and domestic violence is through an individual lens, not a community-wide lens.  For example, researchers examining domestic violence homicides in Michigan found that the media often did not even identify these cases as domestic violence (see April Zeoli’s presentation at the 2010 American Public Health Association Mass media patterns and trends of intimate partner violence reporting )  Most services and systems approach these as individual reports (like a police report) or as an individual client.

As a prevention practitioner, I stress that sexual and domestic violence are community issues. Such violence takes place in a cultural context that perpetuates the violence. And to prevent violence, we have to make shifts on the community and social level.  Public health taught me to think about “population based” solutions that change the environment to address a problem.

While effective collection of forensic evidence and shelters are very important, interventions like these by themselves are insufficient to end sexual and domestic violence. Last week I explored these themes as I piloted a two hour workshop titled Creating a Culture Free of Abuse: Community Approaches to Prevent Family Violence for the Center for Collaborative Response at San Jose State University.  In this workshop I explored the solutions to family violence that require community responses.

I highlighted several examples of community based prevention efforts: working with Transforming Communities work with faith communities, engaging coaches to work athletes on their teams to prevent violence through the Family Violence Prevention Fund’s Coaching Boys into Men campaign, community organizing strategies in Dorchester, MA by Close to Home, engaging men with the A CALL TO MEN Milwaukee Healthy Manhood Project, and resources for everyday people to end domestic violence by Creative Interventions.

Click here for a handout from the presentation.

In the next few months, check out this blog where we will feature podcasts highlighting these community prevention efforts and more about efforts to put the community at the center of prevention.

Training Institute on Engaging Men and Boys to Prevent Domestic and Sexual Violence

Dates: Wednesday, June 23 and Thursday, June 24

Location: Contra Costa College, San Pablo, California

Trainers:

• Wayne Barnes, Yolanda Fairell, Lina Juarbe, and Tony Porter, A CALL TO MEN
• Terrence Ivory, STAND! Against Domestic Violence
• Jack Schmidt, Community Violence Solutions
• Chad Sniffen, California Coalition Against Sexual Assault

Agenda: Click here to view the agenda. (PDF)

Byron Hurt

On May 21st and 22nd, 2009, CALCASA’s PreventConnect program staff were pleased to record several podcasts at A CALL TO MEN‘s 4th National Conference in New York City, NY.

This discussion highlights a group of young men who are making a significant impact in their communities and nationally with efforts to confront men’s violence against women.

Participants in the discussion include: Juan Ramos, A CALL TO MEN Core Trainer and Senior Director of Safe Horizon‘s Domestic Violence Accountability Program; Zell Miller, hip-hop artist and Boys Group Facilitator at SafePlace; Quentin Walcott, Director of CONNECT’s Training Institute and the Community Empowerment Program; Jess Nowland, Advocate at the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation; and Teddy Wright, A CALL TO MEN Core Trainer. The discussion is led by award-winning documentary filmmaker, published writer and anti-sexist activist Byron Hurt.

(56 min) Discussion led by Byron Hurt

Jackson Katz

On May 21st and 22nd, 2009, CALCASA’s PreventConnect program staff were pleased to record several podcasts at A CALL TO MEN‘s 4th National Conference in New York City, NY.

This is a discussion between national leaders in the men’s anti-violence movement about expanding violence prevention work for men and boys. It focuses on the many intersections of oppression and a range of persistent social problems on the radar screen of policy makers.

Participants in the discussion include: Oliver Williams, Executive Director of the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community; Etiony Aldarondo, Associate Dean for Research in the School of Education at the University of Miami and Co-Chair of the steering committee for the National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence; Rob Okun, Editor of Voice Male Magazine; and David J. H. Garvin, Program Director of the Alternatives to Domestic Aggression Program at Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County. The discussion is led by Jackson Katz, educator, author and filmmaker who has long been recognized as one of America’s leading anti-sexist male activists.

(65 min) Discussion led by Jackson Katz

Ted Bunch

On May 21st and 22nd, 2009, CALCASA’s PreventConnect program staff were pleased to record several podcasts at A CALL TO MEN‘s 4th National Conference in New York City, NY.

This is a presentation by Ted Bunch, Co-Founder of A CALL TO MEN. He discusses the belief systems and behaviors of men who are violent and abusive, as well as the importance of accountability in appropriate program development for domestic violence offenders.

(33 min) Presentation by Ted Bunch

Lundy Bancroft

On May 21st and 22nd, 2009, CALCASA’s PreventConnect program staff were pleased to record several podcasts at A CALL TO MEN‘s 4th National Conference in New York City, NY.

This is a presentation by Lundy Bancroft, author, workshop leader and activist on trauma, abuse and healing. He discusses how the oppression of women affects the child custody arena in family courts and how men can be effective allies to women in that struggle.

(32 min) Presentation by Lundy Bancroft

Desiree Allen Cruz

On May 21st and 22nd, 2009, CALCASA’s PreventConnect program staff were pleased to record several podcasts at A CALL TO MEN‘s 4th National Conference in New York City, NY.

This is a discussion between national leaders in the movement to end violence against women. It highlights the challenges, concerns, accomplishments and hopes for engaging men as allies in ending violence against women.

Participants in this discussion include: Bea Hanson, Chief Program Officer at Safe Horizon; Nana Fosu-Randall, President and Founder of Voices of African Mothers; Katie Gentile, Associate Professor and Director of John Jay College Women’s Center; Tonya Lovelace, Project Manager of the Women of Color Network at the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence; and Pat Eng, Vice President of Programs at the Ms. Foundation for Women. The discussion is led by Desiree Allen Cruz, Domestic Violence Services Coordinator for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

(52 min) Men As Allies Discussion led by Desiree Allen Cruz

Vanessa Williams

On May 21st and 22nd, 2009, CALCASA’s PreventConnect program staff were pleased to record several podcasts at A CALL TO MEN‘s 4th National Conference in New York City, NY.

This greeting and dramatic performance was given by actress, writer and director Vanessa Williams.

She discusses her role as an artist in violence against women prevention work and performs a personal monologue about her experiences growing up in a “Man’s World.”

(26 min) Performance by Vanessa Williams

Eve Ensler

On May 21st and 22nd, 2009, CALCASA’s PreventConnect program staff were pleased to record several podcasts at A CALL TO MEN‘s 4th National Conference in New York City, NY.

The second day of the conference was also greeted by Eve Ensler, playwright, performer, activist, author of the Vagina Monologues, and founder of V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls.

Her comments provide a global perspective on the movement to end violence against women — in particular, systematic sexual violence against women in the Congo.

(29 min) Greeting by Eve Ensler

Ulester Douglas

On May 21st and 22nd, 2009, CALCASA’s PreventConnect program staff were pleased to record several podcasts at A CALL TO MEN‘s 4th National Conference in New York City, NY.

This discussion reflects on participants’ experience with the Training Institute for Mobilizing Men (TIMM) project, a collaboration of A CALL TO MEN, Men Stopping Violence, several state coalitions and community partners.

(85 min) TIMM Project Discussion led by Ulester Douglas

Joe Erhmann

On May 21st and 22nd, 2009, CALCASA’s PreventConnect program staff were pleased to record several podcasts at A CALL TO MEN‘s 4th National Conference in New York City, NY.

This presentation was given by Joe Ehrmann, coach, lecturer and President of Coach for America and Building Men and Women for Others.

In this presentation, Coach Ehrmann discusses the influence of sports in the construction of masculinity and the role of athletes in the prevention of violence against women.

(23 min) Presentation by Joe Ehrmann

Tony Porter

Paul Kivel

On May 21st and 22nd, 2009, CALCASA’s PreventConnect program staff were pleased to record several podcasts at A CALL TO MEN‘s 4th National Conference in New York City, NY.

The second and third keynotes of the conference were given by: Tony Porter, author, activist and Co-Founder of A CALL TO MEN; and Paul Kivel, author, activist and violence prevention educator.

These two national leaders discussed many of the cultural norms that define manhood. They set the stage for the important work that well-meaning men must do to become part of the solution to ending violence against women.

(30 min) Address by Tony Porter

(31 min) Address by Paul Kivel

Click here for the full set of PreventConnect podcasts from the A CALL TO MEN conference.

Rita Smith

On May 21st and 22nd, 2009, CALCASA’s PreventConnect program staff were pleased to record several podcasts at A CALL TO MEN‘s 4th National Conference in New York City, NY.

The first keynote address at the conference was presented by Rita Smith, Executive Director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. In her address, she discusses the important role that men must play in ending violence against women.

(21 min) Address by Rita Smith

Click here for the full set of PreventConnect podcasts from the A CALL TO MEN conference.