Calif. rape crisis centers begin Green Dot training
Mateo Lumbreras, Program Manager, Prevention Department, Women’s Crisis Support~Defensa de Mujeres This week, eight California rape crisis centers are participating in a four-day Green Dot etcetera...
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I’ve Got Your Back: Being active bystanders to prevent violence
Over the last month I have had the chance to speak in North Carolina and Texas about emerging trends in prevention. Each time I have highlighted some exciting new efforts to prevent sexual violence...
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Research on bystander programs highlighted in journal
The June 2011 issue of the journal Violence Against Women will include many articles about research on bystander programs designed to prevent sexual violence and domestic violence. It is great to see...
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PreventConnect Reading Club: bystander intervention on college campuses
Bystander intervention is a critical component of the national movement to end sexual violence on college and university campuses PreventConnect Reading Club Programs to encourage bystanders to take...
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PreventConnect Reading Club adds bystander intervention on campus session
PreventConnect Reading Club PreventConnect Reading Club announces a second Reading Club session for Friday, July 29 at 11.00 a.m. PST. Programs to encourage bystanders to take action to prevent sexual...
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Prevention In Action: California Primary Prevention Practice
My Life, a primary prevention program for girls was highlighted at the 2011 CALCASA Leadeship Conference At last week’s CALCASA Leadership Conference, several California Rape Crisis Centers gave...
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Where do you stand? New bystander program
©Men Can Stop Rape. Used with permission. Men Can Stop Rape has just released its newest comprehensive bystander intervention program for men called Where Do You Stand? This program is designed to...
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Bystander-focused work on university campuses
www.scottishwomensaid.org.uk (12 mins) Ellie Hutchinson, Prevention Worker at Scottish Women’s Aid in Edinburgh, Scotland, discusses the work of Scottish Women’s Aid to prevent violence against women...
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Sharing resources and learnings with Georgia colleagues
This past week, David Lee and I traveled to Atlanta to provide trainings for the Georgia Network to End Sexual Assault (GNESA) on primary prevention and bystander intervention. Laura Fidler of the New...
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Men Can Stop Rape launches the “Where Do You Stand?” campaign
Yesterday, Men Can Stop Rape launched their new bystander intervention campaign geared towards addressing sexual violence on college campuses. “Where Do You Stand?” uses a number of tools such as...
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Bystander intervention: From its roots to the road ahead
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...
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I’ve Got Your Back: Bystander intervention for street harassment
Emily May, Executive Director of Hollaback! Hollaback! is a global, grassroots effort to end street harassment. In this interview with Emily May, Hollaback’s Executive Director, we talk about the...
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Not in Our School: Tools to Create Inclusive Environments & Stop Gender-based...
This is a guest post from Becki Cohn-Vargas, director of Not In Our Schools. Positive behaviors, like negative behaviors are contagious and can spread through social networks. This is a hopeful sign in...
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International gathering of bystanders: Taking action to prevent sexual and...
I developed a workshop many years ago to help participants consider what policy and collective actions they could take to prevent sexual violence and domestic violence. We assigned groups of audience...
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Bystander intervention from Sweden
Madnus Sjogren and Klas Hyllander from Sweden’s Men for Gender Equity describe their recent work to determine what bystander intervention programs will work in Sweden to prevent gender-based violence....
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Social media and social norms: Using a multimedia campaign to change...
In a recent issue of the Journal of American College Health, Sharyn J. Potter, PhD, MPH discusses an evaluation of the “Know Your Power” bystander oriented social marketing campaign. Her article “Using...
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Drew Wing talks about the campaign from the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Boys to Men. The Backbone Zone helps students find their backbone, and gives tools to confront gender-bullying,...
View ArticleSharing news from the Higher Education Center
The Higher Education Center’s Prevention Update: Bystander Intervention, Now Posted According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, bystander intervention programs teach potential witnesses...
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The Backbone Zone: A new bystander intervention campaign
In July our interview with Drew Wing told you about a new campaign from the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MECASA), in partnership with Boys to Men. Just released, Backbone Zone! focuses on...
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My name is Alexis and I have bystander guilt
Alexis Marbach Last night, I went to the gym – a place where I usually tune out, rock out to my headphones, and well, workout. I say hi to the people I know, catch up with a few friends, but I don’t...
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