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Moving Upstream 2.0

May 15, 2012

posted in: prevention

Check out the newest edition of the Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance’s prevention newsletter Moving Upstream. They will continue to share insights about prevention practice while coordinating with other national prevention efforts. In an attempt to pool resources and create a national primary prevention community around sexual and intimate partner violence issues, much

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What Does Violence Prevention Look Like in My Community?

May 3, 2012

posted in: prevention

We need to tell more stories on what prevention look like. In recognition of the CDC Injury Center’s 20th Anniversary, the Injury Center is conducting a nationwide video contest to help raise awareness of injury and violence prevention. They are inviting people to participate in the video contest by submitting a short, creative video that

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Our Mission is to End the Violence: Talking primary prevention in South Carolina

April 16, 2012

posted in: prevention

Last week I had the opportunity to speak at the South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault’s Annual Sexual Violence Conference in Columbia. Over hundred people gathered for two days of presentations and workshops. My opening plenary session was titled “Our mission is to end the violence” where I described why primary prevention

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Building organizational capacity for prevention

April 16, 2012

posted in: CALCASA,prevention

When I think of capacity building, I think of resources: number of staff, funding, office space, printed materials, etc. When I read the March 2012 Technical Assistance Memo from the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, I started to reframe my thinking about “capacity” not as physical stuff we need to provide prevention education

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What are the cutting-edge prevention best practices?

April 6, 2012

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Thanks for School and College Organization for Prevention Educators (SCOPE) for sharing great ideas about prevention in their series of Thought Pieces on challenges and lessons learned. The third question they explore is What are the cutting-edge prevention best practices that you would recommend? I especially like this point

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Question of the month: how can I talk about sexuality to prevent sexual violence?

April 4, 2012

posted in: CALCASA,prevention

Each month, our partners at vawnet.org put out a resource guide for a “TA Question of the Month”. This month, vawnet.org is providing tips on the relationship between healthy sexuality and sexual assault with their guide “How Can I Talk About Sexuality to Prevent Sexual Violence”: The 2012 Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) Campaign centers on the theme

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