ADDRESSING SEXUAL VIOLENCE PREVENTION THROUGH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Tri-County Women’s Centre is proud to announce the start of a new project titled Addressing Sexual Violence Prevention through Civic Engagement and Resource Development. The project is being funded through Status of Women Canada.
This 18 month project will continue the work started in 2008 and 2009 to address sexual violence prevention and intervention against women and girls in South West Nova Scotia.
The three project leaders will be working with young women and men to develop their thinking and leadership around hypersexualized media messaging that both young women and men have to cope with.
These distorted messages about female and male sexuality and gender stereotyping is dangerous and has a direct impact on adolescent girls and women’s safety.
There are four key parts to this project:
1) Engaging youth, both female and male, at many different levels so they may have a voice and training to be peer leaders in their schools and community around the issues of hypersexualization of youth and prevention of sexual violence.
2) Organizing a youth centred forum for young women and service providers to develop a “blueprint of services and programs” to prevent and address the harm from sexual violence against young women.
3) Developing a “tool kit” for all schools and other agencies throughout the tri county community, so they have resources to continue to discuss and develop critical thinking as part of sexual violence prevention.
4) Establishing Sexual Assault Response Teams (SART’s) in each county within the context of a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program that would cover all three counties.
The four key activities will generate positive partnerships and collaboration between youth, service providers and key stakeholders within our three counties.
The end goal of this project is to prevent incidences of sexual violence in the lives of everyone, and in particular women and girls who are the most vulnerable, and implement appropriate intervention services.
Anyone who would like to be involved in the project or would like any further information is encouraged to contact the project leaders through the Tri-County Women’s Centre 742-0085 or 1-877-7420085 or via email.
Gayle Allen: gayle@tricountywomenscentre.org
Doris Landry: doris@tricountywomenscentre.org
Patricia Vanaman: patricia@tricountywomenscentre.org
This 18 month project will continue the work started in 2008 and 2009 to address sexual violence prevention and intervention against women and girls in South West Nova Scotia.
The three project leaders will be working with young women and men to develop their thinking and leadership around hypersexualized media messaging that both young women and men have to cope with.
These distorted messages about female and male sexuality and gender stereotyping is dangerous and has a direct impact on adolescent girls and women’s safety.
There are four key parts to this project:
1) Engaging youth, both female and male, at many different levels so they may have a voice and training to be peer leaders in their schools and community around the issues of hypersexualization of youth and prevention of sexual violence.
2) Organizing a youth centred forum for young women and service providers to develop a “blueprint of services and programs” to prevent and address the harm from sexual violence against young women.
3) Developing a “tool kit” for all schools and other agencies throughout the tri county community, so they have resources to continue to discuss and develop critical thinking as part of sexual violence prevention.
4) Establishing Sexual Assault Response Teams (SART’s) in each county within the context of a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program that would cover all three counties.
The four key activities will generate positive partnerships and collaboration between youth, service providers and key stakeholders within our three counties.
The end goal of this project is to prevent incidences of sexual violence in the lives of everyone, and in particular women and girls who are the most vulnerable, and implement appropriate intervention services.
Anyone who would like to be involved in the project or would like any further information is encouraged to contact the project leaders through the Tri-County Women’s Centre 742-0085 or 1-877-7420085 or via email.
Gayle Allen: gayle@tricountywomenscentre.org
Doris Landry: doris@tricountywomenscentre.org
Patricia Vanaman: patricia@tricountywomenscentre.org
