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Under control: countering power and control through norms change

August 17, 2010

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PreventConnect.org Registration has opened for the next PreventConnect web conference titled Under Control: Countering the Value Placed on Power and Control Through Norms Change. Countering norms that reinforce power and control over others is an opportunity to prevent violence in a lasting, comprehensive way. This web conference highlights specific strategies and efforts that seek to

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Start Strong brings youth voices to prevent teen dating violence

August 2, 2010

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At the Start Strong Annual Meeting in July 2010, the 11 sites funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Blue Shield of California met to learn from each other. Each site brought teen leaders who spent the meeting sharing with each other and developing a PSA, learning to tweet and writing OpEd pieces. This

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Youth share why they are involved in teen dating violence prevention

July 29, 2010

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Youth Radio, a fabulous program based in Oakland, California (also Los Angeles, Washington DC and Atlanta), created this video from the youth who attended the July Violence Against Women and Teen Dating Violence Prevention Forum held in Sacramento. Youth Radio’s BOM teen dating violence prevention program uses media to engage youth in a discussion about

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Community based prevention in action

July 23, 2010

posted in: Prevention

I was very excited when I read this in the article recently published in Family Community Health titled A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial of an Interpersonal Violence Prevention Program With a Mexican American Community. If a community’s challenges are viewed without consideration of the historical context of the impact of oppression, discrimination, and intergenerational trauma,

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Primary prevention advocates gather in California

July 22, 2010

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Almost 200 people attended the California Department of Public Health’s “Ending Violence Against Women and Teen Dating Violence: A forum for Primary Prevention Advocates” held in Sacramento on July 13-14, 2010.  This fifth annual gathering focused on teen dating violence. I gave a workshop on “Emerging Themes in Sexual Violence and Domestic Violence Prevention”, and

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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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