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Engaging men to prevent sexual violence

June 27, 2011

posted in: prevention

“Will men take action to prevent sexual violence?” That was a question I  heard when I started in this work almost 30 years ago when I was among very few men engaged in this work. I have seen a remarkable change, especially in the last ten years.  Now activists and rape prevention organizations actively seek

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New resource on commercial sexual exploitation of children

June 24, 2011

posted in: Education,prevention

The newest issue of Connections features several articles about commercial sexual exploitation of children. The voice of a survivor (who received services from the Oakland, CA based MISSEY) provides a powerful statement about the experience of sexual exploitation in this excerpt of a poem published in this resource: All my life I’ve been rejected All

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Bystanders as agents of primary prevention

January 24, 2011

posted in: prevention

Check out this excellent new edition of the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs‘ newsletter Partners in Social Change.  The topic is how bystanders can be agents of change to prevent sexual violence. This wonderful resources includes articles by Joan Tabachnick (Telling a Story to Inspire action), Eli Crawford (Bystander Interventions: A Commentary on Relationships’

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How do you stay motivated in prevention work?

January 20, 2011

posted in: prevention

Kat Monusky of the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Program asks some great questions on Twitter (using the wonderful hash tag #preventionisrad) How do you stay motivated in SV prevention work? Social change’s no easy task – what keeps us going? Share your idea. My twitter response (limited to 140 characters) was to “celebrate our

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Circle of Hope: Facilitating Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Support Groups

September 1, 2010

posted in: Education

At this years National Sexual Assault Conference in Hollywood, CA, CALCASA hosted a variety of workshops dedicated to Intervention/Advocacy for advocates working with survivors of sexual violence. Among these workshops was a session entitled:  Circle of Hope: Facilitating Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Support Groups. Support groups are effective and powerful interventions for reducing isolation and

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Tweeting to advance prevention

July 14, 2010

posted in: prevention

PreventConnect.org David Lee (@preventconnect) talks with Grant Stancliff (@soctraticgrant), who was with the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs at the time of this interview (and is currently with YWCA Spokane), and Ashley Maier (@ashleymaier) of the Oregon Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force about the role of Twitter to build the capacity to conduct

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