March 13, 2012

Media Podcasts

Announcements

The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) is dedicated to preventing sexual abuse before an offense is ever perpetrated. Although the majority of ATSA's prevention work has focused on research, treatment and management of those individuals who have already abused, many ATSA members are also active in primary prevention activities.	ATSA's commitment to prevention (7 mins) Check out some examples of ATSA members' prevention work in these interviews conducted at the ATSA 30th Annual Research and Treatment Conference held in Toronto in November 2011. Also, this slideshow about prevention was shown at the ATSA conference. Watch here>>

Bystander Intervention: From Its Roots to the Road Ahead
(6 mins) Jeff O'Brien, National Director of Mentors in Violence Prevention, describes the upcoming national conference "Bystander Intervention: From Its Roots to the Road Ahead" to be held in Boston, Mass., May 31 to June 1, 2012. This conference will explore bystander intervention to prevent gender-based violence. Listen here>>

Amy Bush Stevens

Ohio's Empowerment Evaluation Toolkit
(11 mins) Rebecca Cline and Amy Bush Stevens from the Ohio Domestic Violence Network. They describe the Empowerment Evaluation Toolkit. Developed as part of ODVN's DELTA Project, this 163-page toolkit provides useful resources on measuring the impact of prevention. Listen here>>

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Lessons from media coverage of Penn State child sexual abuse case

New research: "Predicting Perceptions of Date Rape"

Understanding evidence

Youth Over Teen Dating Violence

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