Building broad partnerships to prevent violence against women

July 7, 2009, and repeated July 9, 2009

Engaging in broad partnerships is an excellent way to support a comprehensive violence against women prevention strategy. This web conference focused on community organizations that engage in such prevention partnerships, and discussed the strategies needed to support and maintain such partnerships over time.

Host: David Lee, PreventConnect, California Coalition Against Sexual Assault

Presenters: Larry Cohen, Rachel Davis and Christine Chang, Prevention Institute

Guests:

• Tony Porter, A Call to Men
• KC Wagner, ILR School, Cornell University, [Biography]
• Lonnie McAdoo, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts

Objectives:

• Understand the role of engaging diverse sectors in the movement to end violence against women.
• Identify promising strategies for partnering with diverse sectors in the movement.
• Explore the challenges and opportunities of expanding partnerships to build a broader movement for primary prevention of violence against women

Materials:

• The video recordings of these sessions are no longer available.
• Slides [PDF]
• Handouts [PDF]
• 10 Things Men Can Do To End Men’s Violence Against Women from A Call to Men
• New York Labor Union Coalition Against Domestic Violence Materials [Brochure] [Poster]
• Poised for Prevention: Advancing Promising Approaches to Primary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence [Prevention Institute]