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Men Can Stop Rape’s National Healthy Masculinity Conversation Series

Conversation Seven: Healthy Masculinity and a Regional Network to Address Campus Sexual Assault

 

CONVERSATION DESCRIPTION: Men Can Stop Rape recently published “The Benefits and Challenges of a Regional Network to Address Campus Sexual Assault” in the journal Health Education & Behavior as part of a supplement issue on Campus Sexual Assault Policy and Prevention. On June 9, 2020 at 2 pm EDT, three of the authors – Pat McGann, PhD, MCSR; Jane Palmer, PhD, American University; Greerlin Thomas, MA, MCSR – will discuss how the regional network supported the advancement of healthy masculinity on the campuses.

 

DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST

 

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READ THE ARTICLE: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1090198120909811

LINK TO SUPPLEMENT ISSUE: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/hebc/47/1_suppl

 

 

CONVERSATIONALISTS’ BIOS: 

  

Dr. Jane Palmer is the Faculty Director of the Community-Based Research Scholars program at American University. In this role, she oversees a selective, living-learning community of first year students who learn how to conduct community-based research in collaboration with a local non-profit organization in DC. She also oversees the Undergraduate Certificate in Community-Based Research, which is open to all undergraduate students at American University. Dr. Palmer’s interdisciplinary research focuses on gender-based violence prevention, help-seeking, legal/policy responses to gender-based violence and measurement/methodological issues in research on sensitive topics. She has conducted campus surveys on sexual assault, dating violence and bystander intervention since 2011. In addition, she was recently awarded a Research-to-Practice Fellowship to examine the civil legal needs of survivors of sexual assault for her ongoing collaboration with the Victim Rights Law Center in Boston. Before coming to AU for her Ph.D., she was the executive director of a domestic violence agency in St. Louis. She worked for more than a decade in community-based organizations in urban, low-income communities as an advocate, youth program manager and social worker for children and families, with an emphasis on eradicating violence.

 

Patrick McGann, Ph.D., as Men Can Stop Rape’s Director of Strategy & Planning, creates effective long- and short-term strategy and planning for current and future developments regarding mobilizing men for gender-based violence prevention. He has managed large-scale federal projects for the Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. In 2008, he co-authored a comprehensive Sexual Assault Prevention Strategy for the U.S. Department of Defense. Dr. McGann has overseen the development of public service announcement (PSA) campaigns that have been recognized as the nation's best-designed and most effective sexual-assault-prevention PSA outreach to men and boys. He played a key role in planning and implementing the 2012 Healthy Masculinity Action Project, a national multi-year initiative that reached more than 60,000,000 people with its positive messages and launched an international healthy masculinity movement.

 

Greerlin Thomas is a Program Manager for Men Can Stop Rape's (MCSR) Training and Technical Assistance Department. For more than a decade, he has served MCSR in multiple ways, such as facilitating MCSR’s award-winning Men of Strength Clubs at the middle school, high school, and university levels, conducting trainings across the country, and developing new training and curriculum sessions. Greerlin has extensive experience providing federal training and technical assistance (TTA) to federal grantees in the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Campus Program and the Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health (OWH) Campus Sexual Assault Policy and Prevention (CSAPP) Initiative. Fulfilling MCSR’s role as the Engaging Men TA Provider for the OVW Campus Program, he provided expert training and guidance to more than 150 college campus grantees from across the country, from community colleges to liberal arts schools to faith-based institutions to historically black universities and colleges to small and large state schools. He also created training materials for campus grantees to use in efforts to more effectively engage LGBTQ campus men in primary prevention with measurable outcomes. He is a co-author of a study about MCSR’s OWH DMV CSAPP initiative that appeared in Health Education & Behavior. His M.A. is from American University.