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Winter 2023: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Meaningful Youth Engagement
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Rooted in Community: Reflections on a 20 Year Journey

February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month (TDVAPM - don't forget the "P"!) and Black History Month. This year the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) is honored to partner with and amplify the voices of Black youth leaders throughout the month of February and beyond. We are excited to share our theme for TDVAPM 2023, Health Equity Matters: Making Connections Through Experiences, inspired by the youth-led planning group for NRCDV's upcoming National Prevention Youth Summit on February 27 & 28. Promoting health equity, specifically for Black youth, fosters healthy individuals, relationships, and communities.

This message builds on our understanding that prevention is radical, rooted in the belief that our collective liberation is possible. As we lean into shifting power, taking risks, and showing up to dismantle white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and other forms of oppression, we must partner with youth leaders in meaningful ways in order to end gender-based violence.

This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter shares highlights from our 2022 National Prevention Town Hall and features key resources for moving our work forward. It includes exciting youth-led work and upcoming events for TDVAPM 2023.

Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

Learn about NRCDV's activities for Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month at DVAwareness.org.
This is a flyer for NCRDV's National Prevention Town Hall, titled "Prevention is Radical/La Prevencion Es Radical." A dark skin feminine person is pictured with long Black hair in a cartoon-art style. They are wearing a yellow shirt and their facial expression communicates strength and commitment
NATIONAL PREVENTION TOWN HALL 2022
 
In September 2022, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with partners from across the Pacific Coast region of the United States, held our third virtual Prevention Town Hall. This year's theme is Prevention is Radical: Shifting Power, Taking Risks, and Showing Up.

Together, participants explored how our work is connected to and impacted by our current social and political reality, and what part each of us plays actualizing collective liberation. The Town Hall page on PreventIPV.org includes all session recordings and related materials in both English and Spanish.

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Pride Peace Prevention

PREVENTION TOOL OF THE MONTH

Pride Peace Prevention

Through the Pride Peace Prevention project, the Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center works to cultivate a positive racial identity and foster community dialogue around difficult issues in order to raise critical consciousness, promote racial justice, and reduce youth violence.

CHECK IT OUT
 
Drawing of a young Black woman holding books and smiling

NEW CAMPAIGN

By & For: Stories of the Beauty, Power, & Wisdom Within

Living out our values through equitable compensation, intentional leadership, and liberative structures, this campaign centers Black youth experience and focus on storytelling and prevention in conjunction with #1Thing. Follow NRCDV on social media to read the stories!

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SafeBAE

FEATURED RESOURCE

SafeBAE

SafeBAE has a wide variety of programs to support youth activists in their efforts to prevent sexual violence. Check out SafeBAE’s website learn about their consent curriculum, accountability training, upcoming Summer Activist Institute, and more!

LEARN MORE
 
Black Lives Matter protest

WORKSHOP

Interrupting Anti-Blackness in the Movement to End Gender-Based Violence

Join this 3-hour virtual workshop on February 10, 2023 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific, facilitated by Valériana Chikoti Bandua, founder of Necessary Interruptions and Darin J. Dorsey, co-founder of Rooting Movements.

SIGN UP
 
Health Equity Matters: Making Connections through Experiences

NATIONAL PREVENTION YOUTH SUMMIT

Health Equity Matters: Making Connections through Experiences

NRCDV's inaugural Youth Prevention Summit will take place on February 27-28 from 4-6pm Eastern each day. This free virtual event will center the voices, experiences, and wisdom of youth leaders engaged in social change work. The summit will explore the ways in which promoting health equity for youth is critical to building healthy relationships and communities. 

REGISTER
 
Three Black youth activists smiling

BLOG POST

TDVAPM & Black History Month 2023: Health, Equity, & Health Equity

February is both Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month and Black History Month. Our latest blog post highlights resources, campaigns, and upcoming events throughout the month of February.

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A National Agenda for Black Girls

FEATURED RESOURCE

Black Girl Bill of Rights

Created by Girls for Gender Equity in partnership with Black girls across the country, the Black Girl Bill of Rights declares the rights and privileges that Black girls and women deserve in order to thrive in our contemporary society.

CHECK IT OUT
 
National Prevention Town Hall

PAST TOWN HALL MATERIALS

"Whenever I feel that I am not making a difference, [I will] remember this Town Hall and know

Since 2020, these annual regional events have moved us towards collective liberation, with Black survivors and advocates at the center.

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The quarterly PreventIPV eNewsletter highlights new additions to the PreventIPV website and features innovative prevention programs, events, publications, campaigns, funding opportunities, and other happenings of note in the prevention field. 

 
Copyright © 2022 IPV Prevention Council, All rights reserved.

This publication was made possible by Grant Number #90EV0428 to the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.


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