Prevent Connect

Partnering with alcohol-serving establishments (bars, clubs, restaurants, etc.) to prevent sexual violence comes with its unique challenges, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic as many of these establishments look different than they did prior to the pandemic. However, prevention in these environments is critical to community safety, both for patrons and for staff. What prevention looks like has shifted as contexts have shifted in the last year, making community input and... leadership, especially in nightlife and alcohol-serving establishments, even more important. Join PreventConnect on this web conference highlighting efforts in New York that examine and advance alcohol-serving establishments’ sexual violence prevention policies and that disseminate and evaluate social marketing campaigns aimed at nightlife. Presenters will also share how they ground their work in equitable, anti-oppressive practices.

Activists have been marking May 5th as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIW, or MMIWG, or MMIWG2ST) day since 2017, and April 29-May 5th as the National Week of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Read our latest blog post for more information and for ways to take action.

Part 2 of our latest podcast episode explores emerging ideas and connections in child sexual abuse prevention. Listen here:

Not only is April Sexual Assault Awareness Month, but April is also National Child Abuse Prevention Month. PreventConnect staff discuss existing resources for preventing child sexual abuse and emerging ideas and connections.

Cuando imaginamos formas de reconstruir y crear una nueva normalidad desde el inicio de la pandemia de COVID-19, es necesario centrarse en las comunidades más afectadas por la violencia sexual y por COVID-19. Únase al Centro Nacional de Recursos de Violencia Sexual (National Sexual Violence Resource Center) y a PreventConnect, un proyecto de ValorUS, en esta conferencia web en la que intercesores y activistas de comunidades y organizaciones Latinx discutirán cómo prevenir la violencia sexual durante la pandemia y los planes para la prevención en curso. Esta conferencia web se ofrecerá en Español con interpretación en vivo en Inglés.

"Do you work to prevent violence using community-based programs or approaches? Have you promised to show measurable reductions in violence in your community by the end of a two-year grant period? Really? Why? "

Learn approaches to violence prevention that use the best available evidence and how to select, adapt, and evaluate them for your community. go.usa.gov/xftkA

Our latest blog provides key takeaways from PreventConnect's recent web conferences on what makes online events engaging, how preventionists can create engaging online events, and what implications the COVID-19 pandemic has on online event engagement.

A new video from @Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault 's Rosemary Project focuses on 5 ways communities can come together to create change and prevent sexual violence.

Prevention practitioners have an opportunity to use the conversations people are having around COVID-19 prevention measures to draw parallels to sexual consent conversations, and use the COVID-19 conversations people have had as a component of skill-building towards consent conversations.

A new podcast from our partners at NSVRC discusses the connection between porn literacy and preventing sexual and dating violence.

The recording of our last web conference is available ICYMI!

A new funding opportunity from RALIANCE will award six $25,000 grants for sexual violence prevention.

"Girls are already driven from public spaces by street harassment and shut out of decision-making spaces by social norms that tell us they are not leaders. Online violence reinforces these norms in violent and explicit ways."

Listen to our conversation with sexual violence preventionists on building and supporting protective factors against sexual and intimate partner violence, like community connectedness, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read how prevention practitioners across the country have created change in their communities to prevent intimate partner violence. #DVAM

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. What is your #1Thing you can do to play a role in preventing domestic violence?

There is an opportunity to create solutions & partnerships to support economic security to both prevent violence & support communities disproportionately struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more on our blog. http://www.preventconnect.org//disproportionate-economic-/