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EDUCATION about and PREVENTION against gender and relationship violence
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Sample Activities and Campaigns
- Host ‘public forum’ events to talk about these issues
- Conversations about what healthy masculinity means
- What is consent and what is not
- Tips and advice on how to safely intervene when you see something
- Keep your campus informed on these issues in the news
- Hold campus and community pledge drives
- Pledges to be a bystander
- Pledges to use consent
- Hold social media campaigns on your campus or in your community
- Distribute flyers on what consent is and why it’s important
- Hold a social media campaign positive & negative sides of masculinity
- Join forces with gender equality groups to promote equality for men and women
- Volunteer at women’s shelters
- Volunteer with children who’ve experienced abuse
- Host or help with self-defense workshops
- Volunteer with junior high and high school men
- Participate in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program
- Get involved with public policy
- Spread awareness of relevant polices on these issues
- Host letter writing campaigns to community, state, and national government officials
- Partner with Gender Equality or LGBQT groups at their events
- Partner with your local bars to spread awareness
- Make bartenders aware of the ‘red flags’ they can watch out for
- Hand out information about the ‘red flags’ to violence and sexual assault
- Teach free transportation service drivers about the ‘red flags’ to violence and sexual assault
- Stage a ride-along event where men take ‘shifts’ on free transportation buses to watch for ‘red flags’
- Partner with male athletics clubs to get athletes informed and engaged
- Host events honoring women
- Showcase an art exhibit
- Hold a film screening
- Sex Signals Presentations http://www.catharsisproductions.com/media.php?gclid=CJa4u43G7b4CFdRj7AodNkMAvw
- Host a Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event http://www.walkamileinhershoes.org/
- Red Flag Campaign http://www.theredflagcampaign.org/
- Where do you Stand Campaign http://www.mencanstoprape.org/Strength-Media-Portfolio/preview-of-new-bystander-intervention-campaign.html
- Green Dot Campaign https://www.livethegreendot.com/Not on Our Campus http://www.niot.org/project/notonourcampus
- Line Campaign http://whereisyourline.org/programs/
- Partner with area Coaching Boys into Men programs http://www.coachescorner.org/index.asp?page=2
- White Ribbon Workshop http://www.whiteribbon.ca/workshoprequest/
- Bringing in the Bystander http://cola.unh.edu/prevention-innovations/bringing-bystander%C2%AE
- MVP’s Bystander Intervention Conference http://www.mvpnational.org/registration-now-for-mvps-bystander-intervention-conference/
- Haven – Understanding Sexual Assault http://www.everfi.com/haven
- Campus Clarity https://www.campusclarity.com/our-program
