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Check here for regular updates about happenings in the prevention field including emerging programs and campaigns, upcoming events and funding announcements, and the release of publications and reports relevant to the primary prevention of intimate partner violence.

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Centering Connection for TDVAM 2022

Date: 
Friday, 28 January 2022

This February, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) is lifting up key resources that “Center Connection” by building meaningful relationships with youth across multiple identities and lived experiences.

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Winter 2022 Newsletter: Prioritizing Health Equity for Black Women

Date: 
Tuesday, 18 January 2022

This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter features resources and upcoming events that highlight the importance of centering the lived experiences, voices, and leadership of Black women in our work. Doing this will create healthy environments for people to live and be themselves while learning, working, loving, worshiping, playing, and gracefully aging.

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health equity
Black women
racial justice

WeGovern in practice: Narrating a future for our communities

Date: 
Thursday, 9 December 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

When WeGovern, we build what we will become by telling stories about our shared future. In this session from PreventConnect, presenters will narrate a vision of our communities so that we may create it together. 

From Global to Local: Learning from international prevention programs to inform sexual and intimate partner violence prevention in the U.S.

Date: 
Wednesday, 8 December 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

This web conference will examine global perspectives and lessons on preventing sexual and intimate partner violence from practitioners working outside the United States, and will explore how these strategies can inform the work of U.S.-based prevention practitioners, particularly those working with immigrant communities.

Connecting with Community to Prevent Sexual & Intimate Partner Violence During Crisis: Lessons Learned from Minnesota

Date: 
Tuesday, 16 November 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

Join PreventConnect and preventionists from Minnesota to discuss how they envision community connectedness as a protective factor against sexual and intimate partner violence across the socioecological model, and how this enabled them to identify new avenues for strengthened partnerships.

Register now for the 2021 National Prevention Town Hall

Date: 
Friday, 22 October 2021

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with partners from across the Southern region of the United States, invites you to join us for our second virtual Prevention Town Hall on Thursday, October 28 and Friday, October 29. This event is an opportunity to dig deeper into this year’s theme for Domestic Violence Awareness Month: No Survivor Justice Without Racial Justice.

Fall 2021 Newsletter: No Survivor Justice Without Racial Justice

Date: 
Thursday, 14 October 2021

In recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) 2021, the Domestic Violence Awareness Project is turning up the heat on last year's call to action: No Survivor Justice Without Racial Justice. This October and beyond, we must center, celebrate, and follow the leadership of Black survivors, leaders, advocates, and frontline workers in our efforts for social transformation. Racial justice is our work.

Trauma-Informed Principles Are for Everyone: Supporting and Sustaining Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Practitioners

Date: 
Monday, 1 November 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

Join PreventConnect on this web conference where guests will discuss how they’ve engaged businesses and diverse work environments and sectors in integrating trauma-informed principles to their workplaces and how internal organizational shifts are key to improving relationships with communities involved in sexual and intimate partner violence prevention.

WeGovern in practice: Claiming governance in our communities

Date: 
Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Webinar Announcement

2:00-3:30pm Eastern / 1:00-2:30pm Central / 12:00-1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

In this session hosted by Resonance Network and PreventConnect, participants will engage with the WeGovern principles in relationship to our own lives, families, and communities and hear stories from people practicing liberatory governance in theirs.

A Proclamation on National Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, 2021

Date: 
Thursday, 30 September 2021

"For too long, domestic violence was considered a 'family issue' and was left for families to address in private. During National Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, we come together to reaffirm our commitment to ending domestic violence and supporting survivors."

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