Can reducing women's drinking prevent rape?
A new article “Alcohol consumption and women’s vulnerability to sexual victimization: can reducing women’s drinking prevent rape?” in the journal Substance Use and Misuse addresses the thorny issue of...
View ArticleReport encourages providers to rethink survivor assistance for LGBTQ victims...
“Why It Matters: Rethinking Victim Assistance for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Victims of Hate Violence & Intimate Partner Violence” is a new report that is based on a 2009 survey...
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Obama administration unveils strategy against HIV/AIDS
In the global struggle against gender based violence and HIV/AIDS, the two are inextricably intertwined as pressing human rights and public health issues that cross race, class, gender, sexual...
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Bystander-focused work on university campuses
www.scottishwomensaid.org.uk (12 mins) Ellie Hutchinson, Prevention Worker at Scottish Women’s Aid in Edinburgh, Scotland, discusses the work of Scottish Women’s Aid to prevent violence against women...
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Men Can Stop Rape launches the “Where Do You Stand?” campaign
Yesterday, Men Can Stop Rape launched their new bystander intervention campaign geared towards addressing sexual violence on college campuses. “Where Do You Stand?” uses a number of tools such as...
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Moving Upstream 2.0
Check out the newest edition of the Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance’s prevention newsletter Moving Upstream. They will continue to share insights about prevention practice while...
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Preventing sexual violence on campus: New issue of Partners in Social Change
The newest edition of the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs’ newsletter Partners in Social Change is now available. The newsletter focuses on campus prevention and highlights the efforts...
View ArticleNew research: The role of rape myth acceptance
A recent article in the Journal of Community Health Nursing reports on a study conducted at a northeastern university, where students were surveyed on knowledge, social norms regarding sexual behavior,...
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Back to School
As school starts around the country, the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) posted a blog in which they recognize September as National Campus Safety and Awareness Month....
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New study on college student anti-rape activists
By Sari Lipsett CALCASA hosted a webinar with SAFER Campus this past March for Campus Grantees to discuss how to effectively include students in campus policy development and revision. In the webinar,...
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Moving Beyond Blue Lights and Buddy Systems: A New Study of Student Anti-Rape...
At the beginning of April, we told you about a new study on college student anti-rape activities. In this podcast, PreventConnect’s Ashley Maier discusses the study and report, Moving Beyond Blue...
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Engaging men on college campuses: a conversation
Jonathan Gates This podcast features Jonathan Gates of the Oregon Sexual Assault Task Force‘s Oregon Men Against Violence initiative. Throughout, Jonathan provides insights into engaging men on college...
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Prevention Session Three: Effectively engaging youth
Leona Smith Di Faustino Prevention session #3 features a discussion between CALCASA’s Ashley Maier and Leona Smith Di Faustino about how to effectively engage youth in prevention work. Drawing from the...
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Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus:...
The U.S. Department of Education will soon release new regulations on how campuses must address and prevent sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking. These regulations,...
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In Solidarity
The entire PreventConnect/CALCASA team was devastated by the news of the violent deaths of college students on Friday evening in a small student community near University of California, Santa Barbara....
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Moving beyond prevention programs in a box
With increased attention on preventing campus sexual assault, prompted largely from the recent White House report and campus investigations, in addition to new VAWA prevention regulations, programs and...
View ArticleIT’S ON US campus campaign
On September 19, 2014, President Barrack Obama launches the IT’S ON US initiative to end sexual assault on college campuses across America. IT’S ON US asks that we all take personal accountability for...
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Preventing Campus Sexual Assault at the NASPA Conference
Ashley Maier (L), Sari Lipsett (R) When it comes to preventing campus sexual assault, it’s not just campuses who are concerned. Just as many different individuals, institutions, and communities exist...
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Trust me…no never mind
Here is a post by our very own Denice Labertew, J.D. in response to an article about “mandatory reporting policies” that require faculty to report any disclosure of sexual misconduct. We all...
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The Hunting Ground: Catalyst for action to end sexual violence on campus in 2015
In 2014, sexual assault on college campuses became front-page news – in 2015 it will have an even larger profile as activists, journalists, filmmakers, government officials sexual violence prevention...
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