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Violence against women online resource has a new look

March 14, 2011

posted in: CALCASA,prevention

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence has released its’ newly redesigned VAWnet website. VAWnet is a comprehensive and easily accessible online collection of full-text, searchable materials and resources on domestic violence, sexual violence and related issues. With this redesign, it is even easier to find materials and resources. Whenever I am asked a question,

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Do teen magazines educate on dating violence?

January 7, 2011

posted in: prevention

In this world of online media, social networking and blogs, teen magazines are still have a large presence (for example Seventeen’s circulation is still over 2 million). In the article Teen Magazines as Educational Texts on Dating Violence: The $2.99 Approach published in the journal Violence Against Women, authors Kettrey and Emery analyzed how teen

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Youth empowered to prevent violence

January 5, 2011

posted in: prevention

The traditional prevention program paradigm treats its audience as the object of the intervention. For example, professionals provide a curriculum to help youth avoid sexual violence and dating violence. However, a transformative prevention program supports youth to become “agents of change”; they are not the “targets” of the intervention but they are the part of

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New “Resources and Publications” page on CALCASA’s website.

December 30, 2010

posted in: CALCASA,Education

To begin the New Year, CALCASA is unveiling a new page on its website called “Resources and Publications.”  The page will contain electronic versions of publications and other similar items that have been produced by CALCASA staff and/or in partnership with other writers and collaborators.  CALCASA is committed to providing high-quality educational materials that will

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Dating Violence overlaps with peer and sibling violence

December 9, 2010

posted in: prevention

In the study published in the December 2010 issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, the researchers found that high school students who reported perpetrating dating violence also were violent toward peers and siblings. For prevention practitioners, such findings requires us to consider how we can break down the silos between related issues in

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What is the role of families to prevent dating violence?

December 8, 2010

posted in: prevention

“That’s somebody’s daughter. That’s somebody’s sister. Do you want somebody treating your sister like that? No? Well, then, keep that in mind.” This reminder from a father to his son is quoted in a new study published online in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence about how African American families discuss teen dating violence. While many

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