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primary prevention

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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Where do you stand? New bystander program

August 19, 2011

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Men Can Stop Rape has just released its newest comprehensive bystander intervention program for men called Where Do You Stand? This program is designed to implement on college campuses.  This program builds on the strength of their Strength Campaign by including positive messages, promoting  healthy masculinity, and having action recommendations that highlight what can be

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Healthy sexuality for sexual violence prevention

August 17, 2011

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I strongly believe that good prevention efforts have to go beyond working to end what we do not like. We need prevention efforts to promote what we want to see.  For example, many teen dating violence prevention efforts  seek to promote healthy relationships.  So what do we want to promote for sexual violence prevention? One

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Models in Prevention: CDC’s DELTA Program

August 15, 2011

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PreventConnect.org DELTA is a prevention program close to my heart. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s national program to advance the primary prevention of intimate partner violence funds fourteen state domestic violence coalitions to build the capacity of local communities to prevent domestic violence.  I had the opportunity to help coordinate one of these

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Diversifying Leadership to Prevent Sexual and Domestic Violence

August 15, 2011

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PreventConnect.org Join PreventConnect for our next web conference Diversifying Leadership: Building the Voice and Vision to Prevent Sexual and Domestic Violence on August 30, 2011 (repeated on August 31, 2011.) Emily May of Hollaback and  Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence‘s Jeff Matsushita will join Annie Lyles of Prevention Institute to explore strategies to

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Prevention In Action: California Primary Prevention Practice

August 11, 2011

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At last week’s CALCASA Leadership Conference, several California Rape Crisis Centers gave presentations about the primary prevention work they are doing in their communities.  The stories we heard described how these prevention programs supported people in their communities to become agents of change.  As we were recognizing 40 years of a movement to end sexual

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