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Do peers influence young men to perpetrate intimate partner violence?

June 1, 2010

posted in: prevention

I find the social ecological model to be a helpful framework to highlight that prevention work needs to look beyond the individual.  So I am pleased to see research that examines risk and protective factors that go beyond individual attitudes, beliefs and experiences. In the recent article appearing in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence,

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Twitter in Plain English

November 24, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

CALCASA has an exciting tool that we want you to know about: Twitter. You’ll notice that on our homepage, there is a sidebar with the headline Twitter Updates @CALCASA. These tiny headlines are called tweets and are a way of seeing the most up-to-date information about breaking news from CALCASA. Sometimes you’ll see a minute-by-minute

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Weekly News Update: Week of November 16th

November 23, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

CDC Awards Vital Prevention Funding to National Sexual Violence Resource Center The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently awarded the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape $1.5 million dollars per year for three years to continue funding its National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). The CDC has funded the NSVRC since 2000 to serve

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Is Behavior Change Contagious?

October 16, 2009

posted in: prevention

I have been reading the New York Times Magazine article Are Your Friends Making You Fat? about how behaviors can be “contagious” — that behaviors “pass” from friend to friend just like a virus.  If this true about obesity and happiness, what are the implications for the prevention of sexual violence and domestic violence?  Can

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