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Prevention Connection: The Violence Against Women Prevention Partnership
www.PreventConnect.org

April 2009 

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* In this issue of the Prevention Connection Newsletter:

1. Follow us on Twitter
2. Reading Club: Common Practices in Rape Prevention Education
3. Interview: Denise Gaulin on the Care for Kids Program
4. Interview: Kate McCord and Liz Cascone on Virgina's Red Flag Campaign
5. Interview: Jim McDonough and Donald Gault on Local Government and
Public Health Programs
6. Join the Prevent-Connect Email Group

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* 1. Prevention Tweets

Our Twitter feed is up and running! Prevention Connection staff tweet
about prevention topics, online media announcements, and prevention
events. We recently tweeted from Men Can Stop Rape's Women and Men as
Allies Conference in Washington, DC. You can also view our most recent
tweets in the side bar of our blog.

Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/preventconnect

Blog:
http://www.preventconnect.org/blog

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* 2. Reading Club: Common Practices in Rape Prevention Education

People involved in prevention rarely have an opportunity to discuss the
impact of emerging research on their work. Prevention Connection Reading
Clubs meetings provide a way for these people to meet online and have
these discussions. These small, one hour meetings meetings happen over
an open phone line, with the web conference used as a common way to view
the reading and other materials.

The next club meetings will discuss "Identifying Common Practices in
Community-Based Rape Prevention Programs" by Stephanie M.Townsend and
Rebecca Campbell.* This paper touches on elements of rape prevention
education program design, curriculum selection, and evaluation. These
are the intended themes of the meetings, though participants may take
the conversation in many different directions. These meetings will be
held on:

    > Monday, April 27, 11 AM Pacific / 2 PM Eastern
    > Thursday, April 30, 11 AM Pacific / 2 PM Eastern

To register for a club meeting, go to:
https://calcasa.ilinc.com/public/readingclub

* Townsend, S. M., & Campbell, R. (2008). Identifying common practices
in community-based rape prevention programs. Journal of Prevention &
Intervention in the Community, 36(1), 121-135.

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* 3. Interview with Denise Gaulin

This is an interview with Denise Gaulin of the Care for Kids Program in
Ontario, Canada. In this interview, Ms. Gaulin describes the theory and
practice behind Care for Kids, a comprehensive community approach to
fostering healthy sexual development in early childhood.

Go to the Interview at:
http://www.preventconnect.org/display/displayDocumentItems.cfm?itemID=20
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* 4. Interview with Kate McCord and Liz Cascone

In this interview with Kate McCord and Liz Cascone of the Virginia
Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance, Ms. McCord and Ms. Cascone
talk about the Red Flag Campaign, a statewide awareness and education
campaign designed specifically to address dating violence among students
on Virginia's college and university campuses.

Go to the Interview at:
http://www.preventconnect.org/display/displayDocumentItems.cfm?itemID=20
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* 5. Interview with Jim McDonough and Donald Gault

This is an interview with Commissioner Jim McDonough of Ramsey County,
Minnesota, and Donald Gault of the Saint Paul-Ramsey County Public
Health Department. In this interview, Mr. McDonough talks about the
impact that elected officials and local government can have on the
prevention of sexual violence in their communities. Similarly, Mr. Gault
gives examples of the kind of steps that county health departments can
take to engage in the primary prevention of sexual violence.

Go to the Interview at:
http://www.preventconnect.org/display/displayDocumentItems.cfm?itemID=20
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* 6. Prevent-Connect Email Group

Prevention Connection's moderated email group, Prevent-Connect, is a
forum where people from around the country who are engaged in violence
against women prevention work can ask each other questions, share their
successes, and pool their knowledge to advance their understanding of
prevention. Currently, this moderated group has over 900 subscribers. To
avoid overwhelming participants, the number of message sent over the
group is limited to no more that ten per day.

To join this prevention community, you can visit the group website at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Prevent-Connect

Or you can join via email by sending a blank message to:


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Prevention Connection is a national project of the California Coalition
Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA) and is sponsored by the National Center
for Injury Prevention and Control at the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC). The views and information provided in our
activities do not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S.
Government, the CDC, or CALCASA.