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International Anti-Street Harassment Week Recap

April 4, 2012

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Guest post from Holly Kearl, the lead organizer of International Anti-Street Harassment Week. Thousands of people worldwide collectively spoke out against street harassment during the first ever International Anti-Street Harassment Week in March. During the week, the Internet, the streets, and classrooms swelled with discussions, messages, stories, and reclamations of public spaces. It was powerful to

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Twitter Town Hall on preventing teen dating violence

October 7, 2011

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PreventConnect.org In this podcast, I talked with Juley Fulcher, from Break the Cycle, talks about the upcoming Twitter Town Hall about primary prevention of teen dating violence. Sponsored by VAWnet and the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, the Twitter Town Hall will have people tweet about how to make healthy relationships cool for youth

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Primary Prevention of Violence Against Women in Denmark

September 12, 2011

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PreventConnect.org Three years ago I had the opportunity to attend the first Danish national conference on primary prevention of violence against women prevention in Copenhagen, Denmark. I shared my impressions of prevention trends in the United States so people in Denmark could consider how to start primary prevention efforts. In Mach 2011, Lydia Guy Ortiz

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Learning about prevention from Brazil

September 12, 2011

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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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Coaches to prevent violence

September 9, 2011

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PreventConnect.org I am very impressed with prevention efforts that work with coaches, such as Coaching Boys Into Men.  One great example of a coach making a difference is former college allstar and NFL player Joe Ehrmann. Check out this interview as he discusses his book InsideOut Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives. This book includes

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Web Conference: Framing Data to Demonstrate the Need for Primary Prevention

August 24, 2011

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PreventConnect.org Join Fenton, a social justice communications firm, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others from the PreventConnect national community of prevention practitioners for a conversation about framing data to make the case for primary prevention. On September 20, 2011, PreventConnect will hold a web conference titled Framing Data to Demonstrate the Need

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