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Talking about teen dating violence prevention policies in California

October 5, 2010

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PreventConnect.org In March of 2010, the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence (CPEDV) held a Legislative Action Day, “Standing Together for Safety” in Sacramento, California, to unite the voices of California’s domestic violence agencies and call for the preservation of domestic violence funding in the state.

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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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Maryland’s School-Based Sexual Violence Prevention Program

October 14, 2009

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(40 min) The following presentation was recorded on April 14, 2009 at Men Can Stop Rape’s Men and Women as Allies National Conference on the Primary Prevention of Men’s Violence Against Women. This presentation is given by Saran Martin, the Coordinator of the Rape and Sexual Assault Prevention Program at the Maryland Department of Health

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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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Interview with David A. Wolfe

September 22, 2009

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(16 min) In this interview with David A. Wolfe, Ph.D., ABPP, Prevention Connection’s David Lee explores the theory and practice behind Dr. Wolfe’s article, A School-Based Program to Prevent Adolescent Dating Violence: A Cluster Randomized Trial, recently published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Wolfe, D. A., Crooks, C., Jaffe, P., Chiodo, D.,

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