Prevention Town Hall: Preventing Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence After One Year of the Coronavirus Pandemic

As our collective context shifts in response to the coronavirus pandemic, so too has the work to prevent sexual and intimate partner violence. We’ve witnessed a year of loss and a year of reckoning with systems, institutions, and structures that cause violence and inequity. Join PreventConnect as we learn how people working to prevent sexual and intimate partner violence have adapted to the challenges of the past year and met the moment to forge new possibilities and a new normal.

OBJECTIVES

• Describe the impacts and intersections of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual and intimate partner violence prevention
• Identify examples of sustaining and shifting sexual and intimate partner violence prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Discuss hopes, visions, and plans for ongoing sexual and intimate partner violence through the remainder of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath

HOSTS/FACILITATORS: Ashleigh Klein-Jimenez & Tori VandeLinde, PreventConnect and ValorUS

MATERIALS:

• Web conference PowerPoint slides [PDF]
• Text chat transcript [PDF]
• Links & resources from the text chat [PDF]

GUESTS:

• Rachel Henry, Education and Outreach Manager, CARE: Center for Advocacy, Resources & Education, University of California, Davis
• Tara Aday, Director of Prevention & Education, Safe Haven Ministries
• Jarred Daniels, Violence Prevention Specialist, Safe Haven Ministries
• Betsy Uwera, Bilingual Family Advocate, Safe Haven Ministries
• Roshni Ahmed, Advocacy and Outreach Coordinator, Women for Afghan Women
• Shgoofa Rahmani, Case Manager, Women for Afghan Women
• Angela Reed Clavijo, Programs Manager, Lideres Campesinas
• Elvira Herrera, Victim Advocate and Organizer, Coachella Adult Women Chapter, Lideres Campesinas
• Yesenia Martinez, Victim Advocate and Organizer, Southern Kern Chapter, Lideres Campesinas
• Caitlin Burke, Prevention Specialist, Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence