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Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence: Overview of an Online Toolkit

Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence: Overview of an Online Toolkit. Juan Carlos Areán Family Violence Prevention Fund October 19 th , 2005 CDC Web-Conference. FVPF Four Prevention Strategies.

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Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence: Overview of an Online Toolkit

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  1. Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence: Overview of an Online Toolkit Juan Carlos Areán Family Violence Prevention Fund October 19th, 2005 CDC Web-Conference

  2. FVPF Four Prevention Strategies • Early supports and services to children who have witnessed violence in their home or community • Early supports and services to young families

  3. FVPF Four Prevention Strategies • Community building efforts that cultivate indigenous leaders and devise culturally-appropriate, strengths-based solutions to DV • Social norms change by reaching men and boys with violence prevention messages

  4. Online Toolkit for Working with Men and Boys http://toolkit.endabuse.org/Home • Commissioned by the CDC in 2004 for the DELTA Program • Contributors included: James Lang, Jackson Katz, Paul Kivel, Michael Kaufmann, Michael Flood, Gary Baker, Pat McGann, Alan Grieg, Donna Norton and Juan Carlos Areán

  5. Online Toolkit for Working with Men and Boys – Work Plan • Introduction to the issues • Why work with men and boys? • What?: Get to work • How?: Build partnerships • Discussion board • Resources

  6. Why work with men and boys? • Top Ten Reasons • A Comprehensive Approach • Countering Objections • Making the Case to Men and Boys

  7. Countering Objections • Men will resist this work because they do not want to lose their power and privilege • There are few opportunities and there is little permission for men to get involved in preventing gender-based violence • It is hard to know which men to target • "Boys will be boys": men will not change because they cannot

  8. What?: Get to Work • Good Practices • What Men & Boys Can Do • Apply a Comprehensive Approach • Work with Young Men • Work Through Schools

  9. Work with Young Men • What we know about young men and violence • How boys become men • Ways to engage young men in violence prevention

  10. Work Through Schools • Reasons to work through schools • Challenges to working through schools • Practices for effective school partnerships • Good practices for school-based work • Eight steps for getting started

  11. How?: Build Partnerships • Organizational Alliances • Faith-based • Media • Cross-Cultural Solidarity • Workplace Partnerships

  12. THANK YOU! http://toolkit.endabuse.org/Home

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