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Men Can Stop Rape launches “Where Do You Stand” campaign

February 1, 2012

Yesterday, Men Can Stop Rape launched their new bystander intervention campaign geared towards addressing sexual violence on college campuses. “Where Do You Stand?” uses a number of tools such as trainings, posters, and media materials to encourage young men to become active bystanders to end sexual violence. According to Men Can Stop Rape’s press release,

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Stopping sexual abuse in sports and every institution

December 7, 2011

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As I have been reading all of the news about the sexual abuse at Penn State, Syracuse and others, I see a lot of anger at a few individuals who do not act or did not do enough. In his recent article in the Huffington Post, Larry Cohen of the Prevention Institute clearly states that

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Making primary prevention “sticky”

October 26, 2011

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How do we create prevention messages that work? In the Fall/Winter 2011 issue of Moving Upstream, the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance’s prevention newsletter, Brad Perry shares six principles of “sticky” ideas, a concept articulated by Chip and Dan Health in their book Made to Stick, in part 2 of his article We

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Preventing partner violence in refugee and immigrant communities

October 17, 2011

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he October 2011 issue of Forced Migration Review has an article titled Preventing partner violence in refugee and immigrant communities that discusses some of the promising practices that are part of Robert Wood Johnson Foundations’ Preventing Partner Violence in Immigrant Communities: Strengthening What Works Initiative. The promising practices are: Engage young people whose attitudes are

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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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