Building Broad Partnerships to Prevent Violence Against Women

1st Session:
Tuesday, July 7, 2009

2nd Session (Repeat of first session):
Thursday, July 9, 2009

Summary:
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, Prevention Connection, 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 VAW

Materials:

• A recordings of the 1st Session on July 7th is available at:
  http://calcasa.ilinc.com/public/recordings
• 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]
• Eight Steps to Coalition Building [Web Conference] [Presentation] [Prevention Institute]
• Collaboration Math [Web Conference] [Presentation] [Prevention Institute]
• Turf Is Not a 4 Letter Word [Web Conference] [Presentation] [Tension of Turf Document]
• Poised for Prevention: Advancing Promising Approaches to Primary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence [Prevention Institute]