What New Public Opinion Research Tells Us About Men’s Willingness to Support Efforts to Prevent Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

   

What New Public Opinion Research Tells Us About Men’s Willingness to Support Efforts to Prevent Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
 

Host:
David Lee, Prevention Connection

Presenter:
Esta Soler, President, Family Violence Prevention Fund

Guests:

• Debra Lewis, Public Affairs Manager, Verizon Wireless
• Geoff Garin, President, Peter D. Hart Research Associates

This web conference — featuring one of the nation’s leading experts on violence against women and one of its top pollsters — explored the latest research into men’s views on domestic violence and sexual assault.  Do men think this violence is common? Do they worry about the safety of women they know?  What exactly are they willing to do to help stop violence?  What messages resonate most with men?  How can advocates engage men more effectively in prevention?  In addition to reviewing the results of a new poll, experts discussed effective strategies for engaging men.

Materials:

• An online recording of this web conference is available at:
  http://calcasa.ilinc.com/public/recordings
• Audio Recording [MP3] 
• Text Chat Transcript [PDF]
• Session Transcript [PDF]
• Slides (1 per page, Color) [PDF]
• Handouts (3 per page, Black & White) [PDF]
• Father’s Day Poll 2007 Sites: Family Violence Prevention Fund and Verizon Wireless
• Fathers’ Day Poll 2007 News Release
• Fathers’ Day Poll 2007 Poll Analysis
• Fathers’ Day Poll 2007 Results
• Fathers’ Day Poll 2007 Slide Show with highlights from the poll

Learning Objectives:

• Assess the value of engaging men in efforts to prevent violence against women.
• Describe the outcomes of the FVPF’s nationwide survey of men, conducted this spring with support from Verizon Wireless, with attention to findings among younger men.
• Explore how to use the survey findings to advance efforts to engage men in helping to prevent domestic violence and sexual assault.

Prevention Connection is a national project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault and is sponsored by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The views and information provided in our activities do not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. Government, the CDC, or CALCASA.