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Dorothy Edwards

PreventConnect Reading Club adds bystander intervention on campus session

July 11, 2011

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PreventConnect Reading Club PreventConnect Reading Club announces a second Reading Club session for Friday, July 29 at 11.00 a.m. PST. Programs to encourage bystanders to take action to prevent sexual violence and domestic violence have become recognized as promising approaches to primary prevention of violence.  In the June 2011 issue of the journal Violence Against Women,

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Calif. rape crisis centers begin Green Dot training

May 17, 2011

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Mateo Lumbreras, Program Manager, Prevention Department, Women’s Crisis Support~Defensa de Mujeres This week, eight California rape crisis centers are participating in a four-day Green Dot etcetera training in Sacramento, Calif. During the next year, CALCASA and the selected agencies will explore how Green Dot works, learn lessons about implementation and evaluate how this program can support California’s rape

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Building the world I want to live in … with frozen yogurt & green dots

July 20, 2010

I’ve been pondering my Utopian world. Most of my requests are petty: more Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt stores, a private jet, a 24-hour yoga studio and an on-call masseuse. I don’t think that this was what CALCASA had in mind when it picked the theme “building the world we want to live in” for its National

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Relationship building at St. Cloud State University

May 5, 2010

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St. Cloud, MN – When Dr. Dorothy Edwards addressed University of California staff and administrators about Green Dot in San Francisco last fall, she stressed the importance of investing time and energy to develop meaningful relationships with campus partners/allies working to end campus violence. As a social worker interested in community-based/participatory paradigms, I find Dr.

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Rape prevention on campuses

December 14, 2009

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Last month, The Chronicle on Higher Education featured an article addressing the diversity of rape prevention education programs at college/university campuses across the United States.  Sharyn Potter at the University of New Hampshire and Dorothy Edwards at the University of Kentucky, both project directors of the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Grant to Reduce

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Green California? Yes, One Green Dot At A Time

November 10, 2009

posted in: campus,prevention

San Francisco – On Friday, November 6, Dr. Dorothy Edwards addressed members affiliated with the University of California Flagship consortium on Green Dot, a violence prevention initiative that promotes “any behavior, choice, word, or attitude that counters or displaces a red-dot of violence – by promoting safety for everyone and communicating utter intolerance for sexual

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