Current News & Events
Developing Healthy Relationships Unit: FREE Professional Development Workshop for Delaware Teachers
October 7, 2011 -- Dover Downs Conference Center, Kent Room on 2nd floor (enter by Rollins Center)
Sponsored by: The Prevention Subcommittee of the Domestic Violence Task Force, Delaware Victims' Rights Task Force and the Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence
This FREE workshop is provided for Delaware high school and middle school teachers interested in unit instruction that meets Delaware Health Education standards and new regulations on interpersonal violence prevention. As part of a national CDC program, this five lesson-plan unit has been developed by Delaware domestic violence advocates, curriculum consultants, and community partners using the best evidence available in the field. The unit is designed for primary prevention and promotes gender respect, effective communication and advocacy, and explores media influence on cultural values and social norms. The lessons have been piloted and evaluated in a Delaware high school and adjudicated youth facility for over 5 years. Workshop trainers included local presenters with extensive experience facilitating this unit, who shared tips for ensuring that materials are culturally relevant to students from communities across the state. Approved by Delaware Department of Education for 6.0 hours of CEUs.
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Racing to the Top Against Media Messages: How They Are Hindering the Next Generation
September 16, 2011 -- Delaware Technical Community College, Dover Campus, Conference Center in the Education & Technology Building, Dover, DE 19904
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Sponsored by: The Prevention Subcommittee of the Domestic Violence Task Force of Delaware & Delaware Victims' Rights Task Force, and our partners: Delaware Department of Education, Center for Disease Control & Prevention DELTA Project, and Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth & their Families.
In today's world, our children are bombarded daily by marketing and media messages coming at them 60mph. All too often, these messages offer boys and girls very limited choices about who they are and what they can be. This FREE conference will examine the various ways that culture and the media impact our children's social and emotional development and academic achievement. This conference will include an academically acclaimed keynote speaker, Mark Tappan, as well as breakout sessions that will help participants develop knowledge and strategies to guide boys and girls through these idealized images without always saying "no." As most parents and educators have learned, you can't turn off their world, but you can better understand what is being sold to our children and offer tools and information to help them resist stereotypes, be their unique selves, and overcome barriers to academic success. Delaware Department of Education supported CEUs will be provided and the first 50 people to register will get entered to receive a prize.
Registration ended August 26, 2011, and our conference is full! Email your questions to: safeandrespectful@gmail.com.
Past News & Events
Developing Healthy Relationships Unit: FREE Professional Development Workshop for Delaware Teachers
October 8, 2010 -- Dover Downs Conference Center, Kent Room on 2nd floor (enter by Rollins Center)
Sponsored by: The Prevention Subcommittee of the Domestic Violence Task Force, Delaware Victims' Rights Task Force and the Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence
This FREE workshop was provided for Delaware high school and middle school teachers interested in unit instruction that meets Delaware Health Education standards and new regulations on interpersonal violence prevention. As part of a national CDC program, this five lesson-plan unit has been developed by Delaware domestic violence advocates, curriculum consultants, and community partners using the best evidence available in the field. The unit is designed for primary prevention and promotes gender respect, effective communication and advocacy, and explores media influence on cultural values and social norms. The lessons have been piloted and evaluated in a Delaware high school and adjudicated youth facility for over 5 years. Workshop trainers included local presenters with extensive experience facilitating this unit, who shared tips for ensuring that materials are culturally relevant to students from communities across the state. Approved by Delaware Department of Education for 6.0 hours of CEUs.
To receive information when this workshop will be offered again, please email your name, school, job title, and what subject(s) you teach to safeandrespectful@gmail.com.
COMMUNITIES UNITE: Violence is Preventable! -- Free Violence Prevention Workshop
March 18, 2010 -- University & Whist Club, 805 North Broom Street, Wilmington
Sponsored by: The Prevention Subcommittee of the Domestic Violence Task Force & Delaware Victims' Rights Task Force
Searching for a comprehensive approach that can unite a community? This FREE skill-building workshop explored a new framework that cities across the country are using to prevent violence before it ever occurs. We looked at how public health efforts have shaped our behaviors over the years- from decreasing smoking, to using seat belts, to washing our hands to prevent illness- and what lessons we can apply in our efforts to prevent violence and other harmful social problems.
What do Delawareans think causes violence to be a persistent problem in our cities?
-Broken family structures
-Children being raised by young mothers
-Absent fathers
-A government and community that is more reactive than proactive
-Problems in families, communities, churches and the educational system
-Agencies and people getting territorial and fighting for money and control
-“Growing Audacity Among City Gunmen,” News Journal, September 20, 2009
Visions of Justice X Preventing Violence in Families and Relationships: Creating a Safer Delaware
November 5, 2009 - Embassy Suites, Newark
Sponsored by: Delaware Center for Justice, Child, Inc., Children and Families First, Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Stand Up for what's Right and Just
Featuring David S. Lee, MPH Director of Prevention Services, California Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Manager of Prevention Connection www.preventconnect.org
Promoting Safe and Respectful Relationships: Tools for Moving Beyond Domestic Violence Intervention
October 28th, 2008 - The Duncan Center, Dover, DE
Provided by the Prevention Subcommittee of the
Victim's Rights Task Force and Domestic Violence Task Force
Featuring Rus Ervin Funk, MSW
Published author, activist and trainer who has been working for more than 25 years to address social, racial, gender and sexual justice throughout the country.
"Tools for Change" 2008 Annual Advocates' Retreat
June 9 & 10, 2008
Sponsored by the
Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence
http://www.dcadv.org
Wilmington News Journal: Crossroads
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Battling teen date violence: Local high schoolers write, direct and produce films to educate peers about its dangers.
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Jewish Women International
October 2007 Newsletter
Listen Up!: Messages from Teens" Delaware Public Awareness Campaign.
