PreventIPV Newsletter: Healthy Me, Healthy We (Winter 2018)

Winter 2018: Healthy Me, Healthy We for #TeenDVMonth

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“We are shouting from the rooftops that the only way to change – to truly irreversibly create lasting change in our culture – is to start with our youth.”
– Daisy Coleman, Charlie Coleman, Jada Smith and Ella Fairon of SafeBae

Young activists live at the heart of our movements, playing unique roles and offering important contributions to advance social transformation. For young people, by young people leadership development and mentoring programs are an integral part of the movement to end gender-based violence. PreventIPV is dedicated to lifting up the work of young activist leaders this February, for Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month, and beyond!

Throughout the month, the PreventIPV project is featuring 4 "tools of the week" developed for and/or by young activists to promote healthy relationships with self and others, in recognition of Break the Cycle’s #TeenDVMonth theme – Healthy Me, Healthy We!

This issue showcases these featured tools, and highlights opportunities for engagement and learning identified by the National Domestic Violence Awareness Project for #TeenDVMonth.

PREVENTION TOOL: WEEK 1

Girls for Gender Equity

Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) is an intergenerational organization committed to the physical, psychological, social, and economic development of girls and women.

CHECK IT OUT

PREVENTION TOOL: WEEK 3

NativeLove

The Native Love project encourages Native youth to challenge harming dating norms and to restore traditional ways of loving, characterized by respect, honor, kindness, and compassion.

CHECK IT OUT

AWARENESS HIGHLIGHTS

Healthy Me, Healthy We!

This post in the Domestic Violence Awareness Project blog explores Break the Cycle’s theme for TeenDVMonth, identifying strategies and tools for incorporating the "Healthy Me, Healthy We" campaign into our movement work with young people.

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I'M AN ACTIVIST

The NRCDV's #ImAnActivist campaign and storytelling podcast series for Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month highlights the stories of young activists. Follow @NationalDVAM and share your story and/or selfie today!

LEARN MORE
LISTEN

PREVENTION TOOL: WEEK 2

Start a Squad Toolkit

Tools in the SafeBAE "Start a Squad" toolkit support high school activists seeking to change their school culture.

CHECK IT OUT

PREVENTION TOOL: WEEK 4

Hardy Girls Healthy Women

Hardy Girls Healthy Women is a girls' empowerment program that addresses their lives in relational and social contexts.

CHECK IT OUT

TWITTER CHAT: #ImAnActivist

On Tuesday, February 8th, @NationalDVAM hosted a Twitter Chat to learn from young activist leaders working to advance social justice. National, state, and local partners who aspire to embrace intergenerational, intersectional approaches to social transformation can benefit from the expertise of young activists in this dialogue.

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WEBINAR

Rights4Girls: Cyntoia Brown, Brecha Meadows and the Abuse to Prison Pipeline

Thursday, February 22nd
2-3pm ET/1-2pm CT/11-12pm PT

This webinar will highlight the work of Rights4Girls, exploring how the intersections of race, gender and violence cause our most marginalized girls to be criminalized for their experiences of sexual violence and sexual exploitation.

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Forward

The quarterly PreventIPV eNewsletter highlights new additions to the PreventIPV website and features innovative prevention programs, events, publications, campaigns, funding opportunities, and other happenings of note in the prevention field.

This publication was made possible by Grant Number # 90EV042802 from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families and Youth Services Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

To learn more about the IPV Prevention Council and the PreventIPV project, click here.

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