This web conference is sponsored by Ms. Foundation for Women.

This web conference is the second in a series of nine web conferences on Ending Child Sexual Abuse. This is a collaboration between PreventConnect and Ms. Foundation for Women. Please see the materials and recordings of the previous web conference “Including Efforts to End Child Sexual Abuse within the Sexual Violence Prevention Movement.”

Session Full: Join the Wait List

The second web conference on June 7, 2012, is titled “Working with the Media to End Child Sexual Abuse.” Media plays a powerful role in the public and policy leaders understanding of the problem and of potential solutions. Studies related to the coverage of child sexual abuse and its prevention from both Berkley Media Studies Group and Frameworks Institute will be discussed along with the implications for prevention strategies. This session is a must see for anyone who is frustrated with the way the media portrays child sexual abuse and wants to know how we can do this differently.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

This ninety-minute (90 min) session will start at 2 PM Eastern Standard
(1 PM Central, 12 PM Mountain, 11 AM Pacific, 10 AM Alaska, 8 AM Hawai’i)

Registration: The session is full. Please join the wait list if there are any openings.

Sponsor: Ms. Foundation for Women

Hosts: Joan Tabachnick and Cordelia Anderson

Speakers:

• Pam Mejia, M.S., M.P.H., Research Associate, Berkeley Media Studies Group
• Moira O’Neil, Ph.D., Senior Researcher and Manager, Frameworks Institute

Pam Mejia

Moira O’Neil

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe how the media affects perceptions of the problem and solutions.
2. Describe key points of research on media from BMSG & Frameworks.
3. Identify three actions organizations can take to integrate strategies identified.

Virginia's Building Healthy Futures Fund will create prevention funding

On May 7-8, 2012, representatives from 38 state domestic violence coalitions, national resource centers and the CDC gathered at the National Prevention Symposium to strengthen domestic violence prevention efforts, and highlight the work of the DELTA and DELTA PREP programs.

One of the most exiting workshops was the DELTA Countdown that shared resources and tools developed by DELTA grantees to support prevention efforts.

I recommend you check out these great resources to support building capacity to develop, implement and evaluate prevention programs.

1. All the great work that coalitions are doing to promote social change that will lead to prevent domestic violence
2. Virginia’s Building Healthy Futures Fund  to raise funds for prevention
3. The Red Flag Campaign to prevent violence on campus
4. Alaska Youth Leadership program Stand Up Speak Out
5. EVE’s PEACE Toolkit: ending violence with policies to enhance & create equity (for Faith Leaders)
6. Safe and Respectful Relationships for All, Delaware Model Unit for schools on healthy relationships
7. Domestic Violence Prevention Organizational Capacity Assessment from the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence
8. High School Evaluation: “plug and use” tool to analyze pre- and post-test data from the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence
9. Empowerment Evaluation Toolkit (listen to the Ohio Domestic Violence Network discuss this resource on a PreventConnect podcast)
10. Guidelines for the Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence & Intimate Partner Violence from  (listen to the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance discuss this resource on a PreventConnect podcast)

Check out the newest edition of the Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance’s prevention newsletter Moving Upstream. They will continue to share insights about prevention practice while coordinating with other national prevention efforts.

In an attempt to pool resources and create a national primary prevention community around sexual and intimate partner violence issues, much of our content will now reference the impressive repository of information at PreventConnect. If you’re not already familiar with them, PreventConnect is a national project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA) with funding from the CDC.

Glad to continue to support this great resource. The newest issue has articles about prevention work on college campuses.

Here is a guest blog by Cordelia Anderson and Joan Tabachnick, co-hosts of the Ending Child Sexual Abuse (ECSA) Web Conference Series that PreventConnect is co-sponsoring with Ms. Foundation for Women.

This web conference series is sponsored by Ms. Foundation for Women.

With over 60 years of experience across the three eloquent speakers, the Ms. Foundation for Women (MFW) launched the new web conference series “Ending Sexual Abuse” to a sold out crowd.

The first web conference focused on highlighting  Efforts to End Child Sexual Abuse within the Sexual Violence Prevention Movement. The three speakers, Gina Scaramella, Executive Director, Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, Donna Dunn, Executive Director, Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Sally J. Laskey, Director Special Projects, National Sexual Violence Resource Center all agreed that ending child sexual abuse was essential to their own work to stopping sexual violence across the lifespan of women.

Together, the speakers pointed to ways child sexual abuse has been addressed throughout the history of their organizations—from early speak outs, to advocacy with adult survivors, to collaborative work for social change.

Gina talked about BARCC’s work with early childhood education and how their own research showed that 70% of the early education and care workers saw some sexual behavior, but few of them any idea how to respond. The curriculum BARCC developed provides information about healthy sexual development and addresses practical questions such as how to deal with sexual behaviors in these settings.

Donna pointed to their statewide policy work to garner attention for prevention. MNCASA has been able to mobilize a broader community through engaging Voices of Experience and over 50 partners to Demand the Change for Children.

Sally highlighted the ways NSVRC learns from local efforts to develop ground breaking national resources based on collected knowledge, such as, research on bystanders, research on healthy sexuality and involvement in the National Coalition to Prevention to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation.

Together, each of the speakers sent a clear message that:

• Child sexual abuse is a foundational component of the sexual violence prevention movement
• There are many new ways of pushing for substantive change when we focus on ending child sexual abuse
• Finding the right partners can lift our work into the minds and hearts of our communities

The web conference ended with a long listing of prevention actions. What can you do? Here are just a few ideas:

• Attend or listen to a recording of a MFW Web Conference
• Read the blogs and tell us what you are doing – post your own ideas and programs
• Learn more from the links listed in each webinar and in this blog
• Tell someone about the work you are doing or the work you are reading about
• Know you can make a difference and be part of an inspiring, urgent, and effective movement

Click here to download the slides from this web conference and view the full presentation online (you will be asked to enter your email address in order to sign-on).

Sign-up to learn more about upcoming sessions.

We hope you will join us for one of the future web conferences or look in the archives for one you missed. For more information visit the MFW and PreventConnect websites.

Here is a guest blog by Cordelia Anderson and Joan Tabachnick, co-hosts of the Ending Child Sexual Abuse (ECSA) Web Conference Series that PreventConnect is co-sponsoring with Ms. Foundation for Women.

This web conference series is sponsored by Ms. Foundation for Women.

The Ms. Foundation for Women (MFW) has made the courageous decision to direct a significant portion of its resources towards ending child sexual abuse. Monique Hoeflinger, Senior Program Officer, Safety at the Ms. Foundation laid the ground work for why MFW chose this issue as one of its priorities by saying,

“Ending child sexual abuse is one of the most strategic things we can do to improve the lives of women and communities.”

Given the frequency of sexual abuse against children and the life-long impact of that abuse, focusing on child sexual abuse prevention makes sense. Among the approaches that MFW supports are those that move beyond traditional child-focused strategies and instead, engage adults and communities in prevention efforts.

As just one part of their broad efforts, the Ending Child Sexual Abuse (ECSA) Web Conference Series is designed to bring the best thinking, programs, and insights they have seen to a larger community of stakeholders. Through this exciting new partnership with us (Cordelia and Joan), Prevent-Connect, and most importantly – all of you – we hope to build a stronger and more effective movement to end child sexual abuse. The goals of this series are to:

• Raise visibility and dialogue within prevention community
• Engage new communities in this movement
• Increase knowledge, resources and strategic action on child sexual abuse

Over the next nine months, we plan to cover the following exciting topics:

• Including Child Sexual Abuse in the Sexual Violence Prevention Movement (May 3, 2012)
• Using Media to End Child Sexual Abuse (June 7, 2012)
• Preventing the Perpetration of Child Sexual Abuse (July 19, 2012)
• Voices of Experience: the role of direct experiences in social change
• Healthy Sexuality and Caring Connections: Foundations for Prevention
• Policies Promoting and Derailing Prevention
• Depictions of Children in Media and Pornography: Implications for Prevention
• Activism in Prevention
• Using Art as a Catalyst for Social Change and Social Action

Look on the MFW or the PreventConnect websites for dates and time and more details. And if you miss one of them, don’t worry! Both the slides and recordings of the sessions are available to anyone.

We hope you will join us for one of these future web conferences. Sign-up to learn more about upcoming sessions.

Over the last several years, DELTA PREP, a national collaborative effort funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and CDC Foundation, has provided support to 19 domestic violence state coalitions to build capacity for primary prevention. This week, the effort is culminating with a National Prevention Symposium in Atlanta. DELTA PREP has been summarized in this project summary, which describes efforts from the 19 DELTA PREP grantees. Last December, PreventConnect released six podcasts from DELTA PREP. Below is an additional podcast describing efforts to prevent domestic violence.

Tess Cody of the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV) and Michael Shaw of Waypoint describe the work of the Iowa Men’s Action Network. Through ICADV’s involvement in DELTA PREP, they decided to engage men to support preventing domestic violence.

Over the last several years, DELTA PREP, a national collaborative effort funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and CDC Foundation, has provided support to 19 domestic violence state coalitions to build capacity for primary prevention. This week, the effort is culminating with a National Prevention Symposium in Atlanta. DELTA PREP has been summarized in this project summary, which describes efforts from the 19 DELTA PREP grantees. Last December, PreventConnect released six podcasts from DELTA PREP. Below is an additional podcast describing efforts to prevent domestic violence.

Andrea Gleaves and Lynea Woody of the D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence speak about how they use Twitter to advance prevention efforts. Purple Thursday and a flash mob were among the activities that were advanced through social media. DCCADV is a part of DELTA PREP to support domestic violence coalitions to integrate primary prevention into their activities.

Over the last several years, DELTA PREP is a a national collaborative effort funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and CDC Foundation to support nineteen domestic violence state coalitions to build their capacity for primary prevention.  This effort is culminating with a National Prevention Symposium this week in Atlanta, GA.

DELTA PREP has been summarized in this project summary describing efforts from the nineteen DELTA PREP grantees.  Last December, PreventConnect released six podcasts from DELTA PREP. This month we have two additional podcasts describing efforts to prevent domestic violence.

PreventConnect was pleased to co-host the webinar “National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey 2010:  New Knowledge and Unanswered Questions” from the Battered Women’s Justice Project‘s 2012 Webinar Series on “Researcher-Practitioner Discourse on Initiatives to End Violence Against Women.”

The May 16, 2012 webinar started with Michele Lynberg Black, Ph.D.  from the Division of Violence Prevention from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sharing the results from National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, followed by comments from  Walter S. DeKeseredy, Ph.D. , Professor of Criminology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) and  Molly Dragiewicz, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

Materials:

• Slides [PDF]
• Recording [click here to watch the recording]

PreventConnect has held many web conferences and written many blogs about NISVS including

• Findings from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: Implications for Prevention (web conference recording)
• Rape more common than smoking in the US (commentary on article in the journal Significance)
• National Sexual Violence Survey Released
• Understanding the differences between Nationals Sexual Violence and Intimate Partner Violence Surveys

Click here for more items about NISVS from PreventConnect.

More and more the field of sexual and domestic violence is using social change models as part of their prevention strategies. The commitment to social change and understanding sexual and domestic violence in the context of oppression is not without challenges. Learn from others whose approaches compliment or collaborate with a social justice approach in order to change the norms that support sexual and domestic violence.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

See below for the recording and slides from this web conference.

Host:David Lee, CALCASA, PreventConnect

Presenters: Annie Lyles and Carolina Guzaman, Prevention Institute

Aparna Bhattacharyya

Tony Porter

Guest Speakers:

• Tony Porter, Co-Founder, A CALL TO MEN
• Aparna Bhattacharyya, Executive Director, Raksha

Materials:

• Slides [PDF]
• Recording: [click here]

Learning Objectives:

1. Engage in a candid discussion about the challenges and opportunities in developing partnerships and dynamic collaboration.
2. Provide examples of lessons learned from people and agencies with experience.
3. Identify opportunities to incorporate population-based efforts such as organizational practice and policy change within the collaboration.
4. Identify potential indicators for measuring the impact and outcomes of efforts.