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Helping Teens Stop Violence is newly released

March 10, 2011

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Allan Creighton and Paul Kivel have recent revised thier book Helping Teens Stop Violence, Build Community and Stand for Justice. Twenty years after it was initially published, this book is a guide for adults who work with teens on topics related to social justice. Many sexual violence and domestic violence prevention practitioners use these activities

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MyStrength experiences in San Luis Obispo (Part 2)

November 22, 2010

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MyStrength.org Darin James Dorsey is the Associate Educator and MyStrength Facilitator for the Sexual Assault Recovery & Prevention Program of San Luis Obispo County. In this guest post drawn from his professional journal, he provides a first-hand account of the experience as a new MyStrength facilitator starting a new school year. Click here to see

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MyStrength experiences in San Luis Obispo (Part 1)

November 15, 2010

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MyStrength.org Darin James Dorsey is the Associate Educator and MyStrength Facilitator for the Sexual Assault Recovery & Prevention Program of San Luis Obispo County. In this guest post drawn from his professional journal, he provides a first-hand account of the experience as a new MyStrength facilitator starting a new school year.

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“Children at risk”: School based prevention program

October 26, 2009

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Often violence against women prevention efforts in schools focus on educating children. Yet, there may be more impact by training teachers to address the issues in their daily interactions with students. In the recent Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, among the several articles about violence prevention programs, one article describes a program

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Developing Comprehensive Prevention

September 30, 2009

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“Complementary” and “Synergy” were the key themes in yesterday’s Prevention Connection web conference titled Developing Comprehensive Prevention: Linking primary prevention activities, strategies and programs.  This web conference was designed for state sexual assault coalitions and state health departments to assist in building capacity of local Rape Prevention & Education (RPE) grantees. The presenter, Lydia Guy Ortiz,

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Finkelhor on the prevention of childhood sexual abuse

September 8, 2009

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In the next issue of Future of Children, published by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, well known researcher David Finkelhor discusses child sexual abuse prevention efforts.  The article does not yet appear on the web site, but here is a summary of the article where he discusses the strengths and limitations of sexual offender

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