Bystander No More
While there is significant media coverage of the gang rape in Richmond California, few articles highlight the need for sexual violence programs. Here is a Newsweek article called Bystanders No More:...
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Green California? Yes, One Green Dot At A Time
San Francisco – On Friday, November 6, Dr. Dorothy Edwards addressed members affiliated with the University of California Flagship consortium on Green Dot, a violence prevention initiative that...
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Letters for an Engaged Bystander Blog
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center is starting its Letters for an Engaged Bystander blog to explore how people can intervene to prevent sexual violence. Bystander approaches to prevention are...
View ArticleBuilding the world I want to live in … with frozen yogurt & green dots
Dr. Dorothy Edwards & Dr. Jennifer Sayre conducted a four-day Green Dot Training at the Campus Las Vegas Training & Technical Assistance Institute. I’ve been pondering my Utopian world. Most...
View ArticleGreen Dot: A Comprehensive Approach to Violence Prevention
During the 2010 National Sexual Assault Conference, which took place in Hollywood Sept. 1-3, 2010there were more than 80 workshops. The largest track was the Prevention Track sponsored by the Centers...
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Registration is open for PreventConnect web conference on countering secrecy
Registration is now open for the next PreventConnect web conference My Business: Countering Secrecy and Privacy Around Violence Through Norms Change. These sessions are the final topic of this year’s...
View ArticleWelcome to Green Dot!
As mentioned in an earlier post, Green Dot comes to California, CALCASA is excited to collaborate with Green Dot, et. cetera, Inc., sponsored by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), to...
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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 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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10 year old acting on Green Dot
Eleni Koumis, 10 years old As a survivor of childhood sexual assault, I always felt that children must be free to ask about adult behaviors that are confusing, even when it is behavior not related to...
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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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Bystander intervention on college campuses
In July 2011, PreventConnect Reading Club hosted two lively discussions on “Evaluation of Green Dot: Active Bystander Intervention on College Campuses.” Participants exchanged stories of how Green Dot...
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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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Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Obvious: The natural history of a new idea
from Daniel Alexandre | Photography How do new ideas get adopted? Manufacturers want us to buy their new products – who already got the new iPhone 4S? Yet there is a similarity in our sexual violence...
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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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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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Street harassment: A bystander’s guide
Hollaback has put together a great infographic titled Street Harassment: A Bystanders Guide that highlights five ways to take action:...
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Changing norms to prevent abuse in our community: Report back from Oregon
Plenary speakers from the 90by30 conference on March 8, 2013: (Left to right: Lara Bruce, Howard Spivak, Jennifer Sayre and PreventConnect’s David Lee.) Last week I had the opportunity to speak at...
View ArticleBystander Intervention: Building the Evidence Base for Sexual and Domestic...
MONDAY, JUNE 26, 2017 (This web conference will be held only once. It will be recorded and archived.) TIME ZONE TIME HAWAII (HST/HDT) 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ALASKA (AKST/AKDT) 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PACIFIC...
View ArticleCalif. rape crisis centers begin Green Dot training
Mateo Lumbreras, Program Manager, Prevention Department, Women’s Crisis Support~Defensa de MujeresThis week, eight California rape crisis centers are participating in a four-day Green Dot etcetera...
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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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