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Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped

January 19, 2012

posted in: prevention

Zerlina Maxwell writes in her recent article Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped in Ebony Magazine that Holding women and girls accountable for preventing sexual assault hasn’t worked and so long as men commit the majority of rapes, men need to be at the heart of our tactics for preventing them.  Let’s stop

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Engaging men to eliminate violence against women

October 30, 2011

posted in: prevention

Last week the federal Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Housing and Urban Development hosted 10 regional Town Halls on Engaging Men and Boys in Eliminating Violence Against Women.  I had to opportunity to attend the session for Region IX held in Oakland, CA on October 27, 2011 where

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Learning about prevention from Brazil

September 12, 2011

posted in: prevention

PreventConnect.org Some of the most exciting prevention efforts are those taking place internationally. From South Africa to India to Brazil, I have seem tremendous ways to prevent gender based violence (which seems to be the term used outside the United States.) I believe that prevention efforts in the United States can learn from those efforts.

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Engaging men to prevent sexual violence

June 27, 2011

posted in: prevention

“Will men take action to prevent sexual violence?” That was a question I  heard when I started in this work almost 30 years ago when I was among very few men engaged in this work. I have seen a remarkable change, especially in the last ten years.  Now activists and rape prevention organizations actively seek

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MyStrength Graduates in Silicon Valley

June 14, 2011

posted in: CALCASA,prevention

MyStrength.org Every year, hundreds of young men in high school are impacted by the work of MyStrength facilitators across California. As these young men graduate and grow into the next phase of their lives, their experiences in MyStrength help them to develop into emotionally healthy, respectful, compassionate agents of change among their peers and in

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Latino men work to end domestic violence

January 11, 2011

posted in: prevention

The National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (Alianza) has released a position paper titled Working with Men & Boys to End Domestic Violence. Written by Dr. Julia Perilla, this paper describes the principles with which Alianza approaches working with men to end domestic violence. Organizations like Alianza have taken the lead in

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