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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 Juan Carlos Areán Family Violence Prevention Fund October 19th, 2005 CDC Web-Conference
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
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
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
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
Why work with men and boys? • Top Ten Reasons • A Comprehensive Approach • Countering Objections • Making the Case to Men and Boys
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
What?: Get to Work • Good Practices • What Men & Boys Can Do • Apply a Comprehensive Approach • Work with Young Men • Work Through Schools
Work with Young Men • What we know about young men and violence • How boys become men • Ways to engage young men in violence prevention
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
How?: Build Partnerships • Organizational Alliances • Faith-based • Media • Cross-Cultural Solidarity • Workplace Partnerships
THANK YOU! http://toolkit.endabuse.org/Home