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Teach Early Playbook – English

 

Top Ten Plays for Teaching Kids and Teens that Violence Never Equals Strength

 

1. TALK OPENLY

Encourage open, honest, and thoughtful reflection about relationships. Allow kids—especially boys—to express their ideas and expectations for the relationships in their life. …

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A Conversation Can Change a Life

Help stop violence before it starts. Get conversation starters and tips for talking to boys about healthy relationships and respect for women.

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El Manual de Estrategia en Español

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More Than $1 Million in New Grants Will Help Organizations in 11 States Support Victims of Hate-Crimes, Strengthen Communities

Community-Based Projects in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia and Wisconsin Awarded Grants

San Francisco, California — A nail salon collaborative. A Hmoob (Hmong) community group. A mental health service provider. …

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A Renewed Sense of Urgency this Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Domestic Violence Awareness Month, observed each October, brings a renewed

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PIVOT Towards Promising Futures

PIVOT Towards Promising Futures

Introducing the new podcast for everyone invested in ending and preventing gender-based violence and deepening experiences of healing for children and their families.

PIVOT Towards Promising Futures is a podcast where leaders working to end violence …

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Building Healing Environments for Children and Youth Impacted by Violence

Building Healing Environments for Children and Youth Impacted by Violence

This webinar presents five research-based protective factors that illustrate opportunities for prevention and early intervention with families impacted by co-occurring domestic violence and child maltreatment. In this webinar Dr. Tien …

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Centering Equity in Multisector Collaborations

Centering Equity in Multisector Collaborations

Are you doing equity work in your community or organization or want to get started? In this webinar, equity, leadership, and improvement consultant Kristene Cristobal shares a framework about how to center equity

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DVAM: The Principles of Safety Planning for the Workplace

#WorkingWednesdays 

In the United States, over the course of their

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Paige Morrisey

Paige Morrisey, Program Assistant, Health

Paige is a Program Assistant with the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence (HRC). She received her Bachelor’s in Politics from Willamette University, where she was both a sexual assault peer advocate and a …

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Anisa Ali

Program Manager, Health

As a Program Manager at FUTURES, Anisa provides training/technical assistance and develops educational materials for the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence to improve the health care system’s response to violence and abuse, and promote prevention. …

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Living Our Values: Supervision and Feedback for Survivor-Serving Organizations

This webinar will discuss the prevalence of opioid use and addiction. Presenters will also talk about how it intersects with those affected by domestic violence, particularly children. There will be a strong focus on concrete harm reduction strategies that providers can use with adult and child survivors of domestic violence.
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Tiffany Garner

Policy Advocate for Children & Health

Tiffany Garner, MA, MPA

Tiffany Garner currently serves as the Policy Advocate for Children & Health at Futures Without Violence in Washington, DC. Prior to her time at Futures, she focused on preventing further …

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Future of Work: Sustainable Career Development for Youth Survivors (4.27.2022)

This workshop explores practical and accessible tools for supporting the work readiness and career development of youth survivors. Expertise from DOL WIOA + Youth Collaboratory and Covenant House New Jersey

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Learn More – Startstrong

Eager to learn more about how you can apply the lessons and facts you’ve learned on this site to your everyday work in your community? Follow the links above to get practical tips from people who were working on-the-ground at …

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4 Elements Of Success

There are many ways to structure teen dating violence prevention programming, but our experience and research have shown us that four key elements prove especially crucial to ensuring the success of prevention efforts; engaging those who influence middle schoolers; educating …

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Why Middle School Matters- new

Middle school is a critical time for kids. They begin to see themselves and their relationships with others in new ways—shaped by a unique set of influences and changes that arrive in their lives.

We all know how critical these …

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Start Strong

About Start Strong Initiative

Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships (Start Strong) was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in collaboration with Blue Shield of California Foundation (BSCF) and Futures Without Violence. From 2008 to 2012, …

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Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

Congress passed the first bipartisan federal gun legislation in decades and Biden signed it into law on June 25th, 2022. The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act allocates funding and support for initiatives including mental health programs, improving access to services and telehealth under Medicaid and CHIP, crisis intervention programs, expansion and implementation of red flag laws, penalizing gun trafficking and straw purchases and partially closing the boyfriend loophole.
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WIOA

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) was implemented to help job seekers access job training and education, gain high-quality employment, and receive critical tools and services in order to succeed in the labor …

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Economic Justice

Economic Justice at Futures Without Violence

At Futures Without Violence (FUTURES), we believe economic justice is gender-based violence prevention and child abuse prevention for marginalized communities.

FUTURES takes an integrated and intersectional approach to creating a world without gender-based violence,

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Anisa Ali

Program Manager, Health

As a Program Manager at FUTURES, Anisa provides training and technical assistance for National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence, including on the Campus Leadership Program, the Survivor Leadership Cohort, and California state policy work. She was …

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Webinar

Living Our Values: Supervision and Feedback for Survivor-Serving Organizations

This webinar will discuss the prevalence of opioid use and addiction. Presenters will also talk about how it intersects with those affected by domestic violence, particularly children. There will be a strong focus on concrete harm reduction strategies that providers can use with adult and child survivors of domestic violence.
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Webinar

Living Our Values: Supervision and Feedback for Survivor-Serving Organizations

This webinar will discuss the prevalence of opioid use and addiction. Presenters will also talk about how it intersects with those affected by domestic violence, particularly children. There will be a strong focus on concrete harm reduction strategies that providers can use with adult and child survivors of domestic violence.
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Tiffany Garner

Children & Health Policy Advocate

Tiffany Garner currently serves as the Policy Advocate for Children & Health at Futures Without Violence in Washington, DC. Prior to her time at Futures, she focused on preventing further firearm violence and homicides through …

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Health Partners on IPV + Exploitation, a project of Futures Without Violence, and Alianza Nacional de Campesinas developed a new resource on intimate partner violence, health care access, and prevention. The safety card, You’re Not Alone: HEALTH, HEALING, AND …

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The Stronger Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act

CAPTA:

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act is the cornerstone of the nation’s efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect. First passed in 1974, CAPTA provides grants to states to prevent child abuse and neglect, improve how systems respond …

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Team: Changing Minds – Winner of Open Minds Initiative!

Team: Changing Minds is a national mental health response network …

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Take Action For Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women 2022

Cross-posted with permission from the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center.

In recognition of the 2022 National Week of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence hosted by FUTURES and the National

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Samantha Daniels

Samantha Daniels

Samantha, mother, advocate, author, domestic violence and trauma survivor.  My Faith gives me the strength I need to continue to push through.   I love to help others through encouragement and service.   I have been working at an amazing …

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Ronisha Wyndon

Ronisha Wyndon

Hey my name is Ronisha but I go by Roni.

I currently work in the non profit organization for YWCA helping men and women with resources, case management, and multitude of services.

I love what I do and …

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Mona Muro

Mona Muro

Mona Muro is a public health and economic justice thought partner. During her career, she has championed anti-gender-based violence work with grassroots organizations, and community members, and fought to keep survivor voices at the heart of the movement. …

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Beth Workman

Beth Workman

Beth Workman is an advocate and leader in combating domestic violence and violence in the community. She is a strong member of the Lexington, Kentucky community involved in her neighborhood and the anti-violence movement. Her personal experience with …

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Alison Fields

Alison Fields

Alison Fields (she/her) is an activist, advocate, and writer living in NYC. Her work focuses on supporting fellow trauma survivors as well as writing and speaking on topics spanning intersectionality, disrupting rape culture, mental health, and dismantling white …

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Survivor Leadership Cohort

Centering the voices and experiences of survivors is foundational to the work of preventing and healing from violence. In our effort to be led by survivors and value their lived experience as expertise, the National Health Resource Center on Domestic

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Not Broken Parents: Why Teaching Parents to Parent Isn’t the Solution Our Children Need

I have an ACES score of 9. That means I grew up with 9 of the 10 categories of Adverse Childhood Experiences that Drs. Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda found to be highly correlated with health risk

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Child Care as a Domestic Violence Issue

This brief details the importance of domestic violence survivors having access to affordable, reliable, and flexible child care. Research shows that the inability to access affordable, reliable, and flexible child care can keep survivors out of the workforce, force them …

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Research – Teen Economic Abuse

The 107 question survey explored topics ranging from experiences and use of economic abuse within relationships, to views on economic sabotage, control, exploitation as abusive behavior, to gift giving expectations, and to the impacts of economic insecurity on relationship decisions.…

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Resources – Teen Economic Abuse

Teen economic abuse is common among teens who reported being in abusive relationships and those who did not report being in abusive relationships. The impact of this behavior can have detrimental impacts on their career trajectories and future financial independence. …

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Take Action – Teen Economic Abuse

Teen economic abuse is common among teens who reported being in abusive relationships and those who did not report being in abusive relationships. The impact of this behavior can have detrimental impacts on their career trajectories and future financial independence. …

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Toolkit – Teen Economic Abuse

Economic abuse among teens has been overlooked for far too long. Help raise awarness and start the conversation today with their social media resources.

 

 

Social Media Toolkit

Click to explore hashtags, tag-able accounts, graphics, links, and sample tweets.…

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Afghanistan and Keeping Girls in School

Statement of Esta Soler,

President and Founder,

Futures Without Violence

March 28, 2022

Contact: Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1999

 

Taliban’s Broken Promise to Educate Girls Is Cruel and Heartbreaking for Girls, Families, and for Afghanistan’s Future

 

“We are deeply disappointed …

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Teen Economic Abuse

As 13 to 19 year-olds move toward adulthood and independence, they begin making decisions without parental or guardian involvement, have their first romantic relationships, hold their first job or internship, and start to handle their own money. This time of …

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The Strong Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act

CAPTA:

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act is the cornerstone of the nation’s efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect. First passed in 1974, CAPTA provides grants to states to prevent child abuse and neglect, improve how systems respond …

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Webinar

Lessons Learned About Survivor-Centered Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Title: Lessons Learned About Survivor-Centered Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic (3-part Webinar Series)

Dates: March 23th, 2022, 11AM PST/ 2PM EST
April 27th, 2022, 11AM PST/2PM EST
May 25th, 2022, 11AM PST/2PM EST

Register for all three sessions here.

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FUTURES is committed to building the field and supporting the movement to end violence against women. Through innovative training programs, we offer organizations and professionals opportunities to develop their leadership and skills in preventing violence.

We believe that everyone has …

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Collaborating with Culturally Specific Community-Based Programs to Support Survivors of Human Trafficking, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Title: Collaborating with Culturally Specific Community-Based Programs to Support Survivors of Human Trafficking, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Date: March 24th, 2022 @11AM PST/ 2PM EST

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Resources for Parents and Caregivers – Connected Parents, Connected Kids

Parent Favorites Series
Visit ZERO TO THREE Parent Favorites Series.

There is no such thing as a perfect parent, and many things that might seem intuitive about your child’s behavior and development can be hard to figure out on …

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From Mandatory Reporting to Mandatory Supporting: Top 3 ways Medical Mandatory Reporting Laws Can Harm Survivors

Did you know that when survivors seek health care for an injury caused by domestic violence in California, health providers are required to make a report to law enforcement – even if it goes against the wishes of the survivor?

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Fatherhood and Domestic Violence Webcast Series & Resources

How can fatherhood be used to meaningfully engage people who use violence?

Juan Carlos Areán and Wendy Mota explore this topic in a series of pre-recorded webcasts presented by Promising Futures and the Quality Improvement Center on Domestic Violence in

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