December 4th, 2023 by Esta Soler
Recent news headlines about mass rapes committed against women and girls in Israel and in Sudan have brought much needed attention to the issue of sexual violence during wartime.
The terrible truth is that rape is one of the most commonly perpetrated, and under-prosecuted, war crimes.
With the world facing the highest number of conflicts since the Second World War, the UN reports that an alarming number of women and girls worldwide are experiencing gang rape, sexual slavery and other forms of sexual violence. Today, there are 20 “situations of concern” where sexual violence is a threat to women and girls, including conflicts in Ethiopia, Haiti, Myanmar and Ukraine.…
November 20th, 2023 by Esta Soler
The conditions that promote lifelong health and well-being start early in a child’s life. But children are growing up in uncertain and stressful times. In school, kids experiencing traumatic stress are 2.5x more likely to fail a grade and score lower on standardized tests.
Communities and local leaders have the solutions, yet siloed systems limit access to comprehensive, integrated, and holistic service provision. People get stuck with inflexible and restricted service options, and children suffer.
We need breakthrough thinking to reimagine and create the experiences and conditions that help children, families, communities, and society thrive and prosper. So we started All In For Kids, in partnership with our founding donors and partners.
All In For Kids is an innovation incubator that leverages what actually works for kids. Our partners develop and design responsive early childhood ecosystems of healing and caring from deep within their community.
All In For Kids and …
November 2nd, 2023 by Megan Beine
My name is Megan Beine and I was a Campus Fellow in the Futures Without Violence Campus Leadership program at Eastern Washington University for the 2022-2023 school year alongside my partner, Nicole Smith. This was an extremely valuable and growing experience for us that came with many struggles and rewards as we bumped up time and time again against our college’s academic bureaucracy in our attempts to lift up student voices and concerns surrounding violence and prevention efforts on campus.
At the beginning of the school year, a string of sexual assaults in our residence halls left us, and the rest of the campus community feeling very unsettled about the ways our university was handling, or attempting to prevent instances of violence, on campus. Knowing the statistics surrounding campus sexual assault, we understood that the cases that were being reported were only the tip of the iceberg, but it seemed …
October 17th, 2023 by Esta Soler
We must not remain silent in the face of hate and violence.
That’s the wisdom shared by every organization that addresses violent extremism, and it’s something we’ve learned over many years of work at Futures Without Violence. We also know that speaking publicly in support of people who are the targets of violence and hate demonstrates that rejecting hate is the responsibility of each one of us.
I also believe that every human being should be protected from violence and harm, and anyone being harmed deserves our compassion. Full stop.
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October 6th, 2023 by Jennifer White, Director of Learning & Leadership on Ageism, Elder Abuse, and the Origin of STAGES at FUTURES Without Violence
Tags: ageism, Domestic Violence, elder abuse
Fewer older survivors access domestic violence services: We can change that.
Which of the following are examples of ageism?
The answer is all of the above.
The first example is internalized ageism – how we feel about aging.
The second is cultural ageism – the stereotypes that we see in the media.
The third is sometimes called “benevolent ageism” – when people think they are being kind, but they are actually patronizing and infantilizing older adults.
According to The World Health Organization, ageism is the most prevalent and socially acceptable form of bias. Globally, one in two …
