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SAAM highlights: Peace Over Violence shows its creativity

March 8, 2010

posted in: CALCASA

Since 1999, Peace Over Violence has has organized Denim Day in LA & USA as a rape prevention education campaign. Emily Austin, division manager of prevention services at Peace Over Violence, explains in the above video that Denim Day’s history began in 1998 when an Italian Supreme Court overturned a rape conviction because the victim

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Peace Over Violence Releases Advocacy Paper

October 22, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

Peace Over Violence released an advocacy paper entitled Teen Dating Violence and Sexual Violence Policy Project at Miguel Contreras Learning Complex. The report contains a description of the pilot site characteristics, a definition of the policy project, review of successes and challenges, and recommendations to others who are seeking teen dating and sexual violence policy

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Leah Aldridge on “In Touch with Teens”

October 13, 2009

posted in: prevention

(38 min) This is a presentation by Leah Aldridge, a consultant and teen violence prevention expert who helped Peace Over Violence to develop the In Touch with Teens violence prevention program. In Touch with Teens is one of the few youth-violence prevention initiatives identified as a model program by the U.S. Department of Health and

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Violence-Free Teens: Building Healthy Relationships Conference

October 2, 2009

posted in: prevention

Yesterday I attended Peace Over Violence‘s second annual Violence-Free Teens Conference. This exciting event highlighted many violence against women prevention efforts.  This event brought together over 100 people including youth, teachers, rape crisis centers, domestic violence agencies and other youth-serving organizations. With a focus on how to support youth to take action “over violence” and

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USA Today: Chris Brown-Rihanna incident could be 'teachable moment'

March 13, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

Peace Over Violence, one of the CALCASA’s member agencies, has been in the news discussing teen dating violence. For nearly “two weeks after the alleged Feb. 8 assault involving R&B singer Chris Brown and his girlfriend, the singer Rihanna, teen fans of the couple searched for ways to minimize the episode or justify what sounded

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