PreventIPV Newsletter: "I Ask" for Sexual Assault Awareness Month (Spring 2019)

Spring 2019: "I Ask" for Sexual Assault Awareness Month

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"When you want to get close to someone — whether you’re hooking up for the first time or in a long-term relationship — it’s important to know how to ask for consent." – National Sexual Violence Resource Center

In recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month this April, we are uplifting the National Sexual Violence Resource Center's theme for 2019, "I Ask." Asking for consent is a normal and healthy part of our daily lives, whether we are asking to hold hands, high five, or have sex. Asking for everyday consent is #1Thing that each and every one of us can do to promote safe and healthy relationships.

This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter lifts up prevention initiatives that work to end gender-based violence by promoting a culture of consent. This newsletter also highlights the first of a 7-part series of stories for the Innovation section of the PreventIPV website, as well as three related Featured Youth Engagement Tools.

INNOVATION: LESSONS LEARNED FROM DELTA FOCUS

We are pleased to release the first of a 7-part series of stories for the Innovation section of the PreventIPV website, featuring lessons learned from the DELTA FOCUS program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Organized by key themes and released throughout the year, each story will identify promising community- and societal-level strategies to prevent intimate partner violence by influencing the environments and conditions in which people live, work, and play. Under each new story theme, you will find key lessons learned and highlighted strategies, tools for adaptation, highlighted projects, and related resources from DELTA FOCUS grantees that will contribute to our collective learning.

NEW YOUTH ENGAGEMENT STORY

Engaging Youth in IPV Prevention features lessons from five community coalitions funded by four DELTA FOCUS domestic violence coalitions. Informed by healthy behavior and social norms theories, these stories suggest that prevailing attitudes, culture, and social expectations related to IPV can change through efforts to foster adult-youth mentoring opportunities, a focus on youth leadership development, and support for youth-led media and marketing campaigns. Their approaches focus on building youth’s leadership skills, engaging them in shifting norms related to violence, and strengthening community-level protective factors for IPV.

PREVENTION TOOL OF THE MONTH

Project Consent

Project Consent believes that education is the key to starting conversations that serve as the catalyst to ending rape culture. Through multimedia campaigns and an educational curriculum on promoting healthy sexuality and relationships, Project Consent works to dismantle rape culture, promote a culture of consent, and support survivors.

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AWARENESS HIGHLIGHTS

Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2019: I Ask

Engaging in conversations with our partners, children, and friends about consent is #1Thing that we can all do to promote safe and healthy relationships. Check out this month's Awareness Highlights blog post from the Domestic Violence Awareness Project to learn more.

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FEATURED YOUTH ENGAGEMENT TOOL

When I am an Elder

In this PSA series from the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Alaskan youth share their vision for their communities for when they are Elders.

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TA QUESTION OF THE MONTH

Framing Consent for SAAM 2019: Keeping it Timely, Positive, and Approachable

April's Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) campaign is laser-focused on one concept: consent. In our April TA Question of the Month, Susan Sullivan from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center shares tips for getting involved with SAAM 2019.

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FEATURED YOUTH ENGAGEMENT TOOL

Our Gender Revolution

The Our Gender Revolution project from the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence uses conversations to explore concepts of gender, inequality, and gender violence and to engage young people as social change agents.

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FEATURED YOUTH ENGAGEMENT TOOL

Youth Activist Prevention Toolkit

Designed for students by students, this toolkit was developed by the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence's Youth Advisory Board. It is a step-by-step instruction manual for students who wish to raise awareness of teen dating violence and work to prevent it in their schools and in their communities.

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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 #90EV0428 to the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its 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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