June 6th: Greening as a strategy to prevent sexual and domestic violence

Join us for a PreventConnect webinar featuring violence prevention advocates from Michigan and California
Thursday, June 6, 2019 
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
What Surrounds Us Shapes Us: Greening and other physical/built environment strategies for preventing sexual and domestic violence
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As evidence on community-level approaches to domestic and sexual violence prevention continues to emerge, practitioners are learning how physical spaces play a role in shaping social connections, behaviors and motivations that influence the likelihood of violence. Changing the physical/built environment holds promise in achieving population-level impacts and addressing multiple forms of violence at once. In this web conference, practitioners in Michigan will share how and why they are seeking to increase green spaces (e.g. parks) for domestic violence prevention through their DELTA Impact state- and local-level work. Practitioners in Salinas, CA will describe how they're implementing environmental design strategies to prevent violence affecting youth. Join us as we discuss how to leverage these learnings to transform physical spaces for prevention.
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HOSTS
Ashleigh Klein-Jimenez & Tori VandeLinde, PreventConnect and CALCASA
 
FACILITATORS
Alisha Somji & Abena Asare, Prevention Institute
 
GUEST SPEAKERS
Anne Menard, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
Amanda Barratt, Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence (MCEDSV)
Phalguna Siddapureddy, MCEDSV
Jessica Edel Harrleson, MCEDSV
Linda McGlone, Monterey County Health Department
Gabriela Manzo, Building Healthy Communities
 
OBJECTIVES
  • Describe the connections between the physical/built environment and multiple forms of violence, including domestic and sexual violence.
  • Highlight local strategies that communities are operationalizing for prevention.
  • Identify roles that the field of domestic and sexual violence prevention can play in environmental strategies.
  • Engage in a candid discussion on transforming the physical/built environment for prevention.

This webinar is part of the PreventConnect webinar series, a joint project of Prevention Institute and the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA) to advance primary prevention of sexual and relationship violence by building a community of practice among practitioners in government agencies and community organizations. PreventConnect is supported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Read these PreventConnect profiles to learn about the innovative strategies prevention advocates are pursuing to prevent sexual and domestic violence and create a culture of safety and equity at the neighborhood, city, and state level.
 

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