BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS INITIATIVE TO END MEN'S VIOLENCE (BPI)

Building Partnerships Initiative to End Men's Violence (BPI) is a collaborative project of the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF), Prevention Institute, Men Can Stop Rape, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA).

• Identify, document, and support current efforts to prevent men's sexual and domestic violence, with specific attention to efforts that demonstrably decrease victimization, increase abuser accountability, and break the isolation within which practitioners often work

• Promote strategic alliances between programs working to end male violence and community based organizations that reach large numbers of men but do not currently emphasize working to end male violence in any systematic fashion

• Identify, document, and publicize innovative practices emerging among practitioners working to end men's violence, including efforts to build strategic partnerships and to create culturally sophisticated anti-violence initiatives

• Identify unmet technical assistance needs as they are articulated by key constituencies involved in efforts to end violence against women

To achieve these objectives, the BPI will pursue three interrelated strategies:

• The BPI will form a national advisory council made up of domestic violence prevention leaders who will offer their expertise and guide the development of the initiative.

• The BPI will convene four regional meetings to explore current efforts to build partnerships and to build a "big tent" approach to ending men's violence.

• The BPI will host a 12-week online seminar to promote dialogue, explore current practice, and disseminate lessons learned from the advisory council and the regional meetings.

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