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| February
2009
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In this issue of the Prevention Connection Newsletter:
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| Reading Club: Rape Prevention and Risk Reduction | |
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Our
next Reading Club sessions will focus on the VAWnet
Applied Research
Paper "Rape Prevention and Risk Reduction:
Review of the
Research
Literature for Practitioners"
by Kimberly A. Lonsway, Victoria L. Banyard, Alan D. Berkowitz,
Christine A. Gidycz,
Jackson T. Katz, Mary P. Koss, Paul A. Schewe, and Sarah E. Ullman
(with contributions from Dorothy Edwards). This paper provides
"...suggestions for practitioners to design, implement, and evaluate
rape prevention and risk reduction programs. These include designing a
comprehensive prevention strategy with intervention at various levels
of influence and careful consideration of program goals and methods for
evaluating positive impact." These meetings will be held on:
https://calcasa.ilinc.com/public/readingclub |
| Keynote Address by Loretta Ross | |
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A recording
of a keynote address given by
Loretta Ross, Founder and National Coordinator for SisterSong
Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
is now available on the Prevention
Connection
website. In this
keynote, Ms. Ross talks about the history and development of the
movement to end violence against women in the United States, the
perspective of women of color in the movement, and how a human rights
framework can be applied to the prevention of violence against women. (Go to Podcast) |
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Rosie F. Davis is the Executive Director of
Huli
Au Ola, Maui County Area Health Education Center
on the island of Moloka'i,
Hawai'i.
In this interview,
Ms. Davis talks about the work her agency has done to respond to sexual
and relationship violence is a culturally meaningful and appropriate
way. She also discusses the development of the following
community-based prevention video that was produced by her agency, which
can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M9OSy19PL4 (Go to Interview) |
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Prevention Connection's moderated email group, Prevent-Connect, is a forum where people from around the country who are engaged in violence against women prevention work can ask each other questions, share their successes, and pool their knowledge to advance their understanding of prevention. Currently, this moderated group has over 900 subscribers. To avoid overwhelming participants, the number of message sent over the group is limited to no more that ten per day. To join this prevention community, you can
visit the group website at: Or you can join by email by sending a blank
message to: |
 
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Prevention Connection is a national project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA) and is sponsored by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The views and information provided in our activities do not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. Government, the CDC, or CALCASA. |
