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“Can We Talk About That?” Partnership Blog

The Partnership envisions this blog to be a thoughtful space for questions, dialogue and reflections on our domestic violence movement in California.

What is at the core of our work? How do our enduring values inform our current strategies and future directions? Where do we need to do some critical thinking and take some risks? How do we re-envision this movement? What leadership do we need? How do we foster strategic alliances?

Here in this blog, we seek to foster conversations about the ways intersecting social justice issues impact our work and our communities. Transformational thinking, innovation and inspiration will guide our dialogue.

Blog post By Nilda Valmores, Executive Director

Finding Financial Independence in the My Sister’s House “Women to Work” Program

My Sister’s House is the Central Valley’s only domestic violence shelter that focuses on the needs of Asian and Pacific Islander women and their children. In recent years, we’ve noticed that the accessibility of the internet and the ease of international travel has increased the number of abusers who find their wives, girlfriends and victims in other countries. Our client May* was such a woman. 

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DELTA FOCUS: Policy analysis and development

The DELTA FOCUS Project develops and disseminates evidence-informed model dating abuse prevention policies, protocols, procedures and other resources for state agencies (governmental and non-governmental) to disseminate to schools, school districts,  and other stakeholders within the education system.

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DELTA FOCUS Project Planning

Resources to Support DELTA FOCUS California Project Planning 

Informing Policies, Procedures and Protocol:

Aspen Institute Advocacy Progress Planner 

Aspen Institute Advocacy Progress Planner definitions

Blog post By Kelsey Bardini, MSWSocial Worker/“Money Matters Diva” at Women’s Empowerment

At Women’s Empowerment Survivors Rebuild Finances from the Ground Up

When a woman decides to leave a violent relationship, she often has no place to turn and very few resources to draw upon. With the lack of affordable housing in California, many women are faced with the daunting choice between staying in a violent relationship or becoming homeless. At Women’s Empowerment, a Sacramento service agency for homeless women, 85% of our participants are survivors of domestic violence.

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Helping Survivors Prepare for the 2013 Tax Season

Tax season is upon us! As an advocate, one way you can assist survivors in improving their financial management skills is to make sure they are aware of the tax benefits and tax assistance available to them. With the 2013 Tax Season underway, the Partnership has gathered several tools to help you assist survivors in preparing their taxes. This tax season will be a little different from last year’s due to several changes in the law (American Tax Relief Act of 2012), but here are a couple things you should know: 

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Youth Leadership

The Partnership is committed to youth development and youth leadership. Youth and young adults play particularly vital roles in dating abuse prevention as active participants in the creation of their own health and well-being, and as current and future organizers, leaders and parents. 

Youth leaders have participated in planning, implementing and evaluating a variety of Partnership policy, systems change, communications, capacity-building and network-building activities.

Youth leadership in the DELTA FOCUS project is facilitated in three primary ways: 

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Health care providers and advocates: together we’re stronger

On September 30, 2011, Lisa Fujie Parks, the Partnership’s Prevention Program Manager, had the opportunity to speak at the Kaiser Permanente’s Family Violence Prevention Program’s 10th anniversary Family Violence Prevention Conference on a panel on community advocacy response to domestic violence.

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KQED State of Health covers STAND for Families Free of Violence and Contra Costa County’s county-wide dating abuse prevention initiative

In the blog post, Teenagers, Love and Abuse, Grace Rubenstein sheds light on the realities of dating abuse in the lives of adolescents in Contra Costa County, and what the community is doing about it: “Now STAND and Contra Costa County are joining forces to mount a county-wide effort, bringing in other agencies and schools and aiming to involve adult and youth leaders side by side.”

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Teen dating violence prevention through policy change: Opportunities for advocacy at the local and state levels

Below is the Executive Summary included in the proceedings.

Background

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Restorative justice in schools: an exploratory conversation about application to dating abuse

The Partnership’s Prevention Peer Network Web Conference on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 1:30-3:00 PM will explore restorative justice in schools.

To prevent dating abuse and support young people in having healthy, nonviolent relationships, families and communities need ways to stop abusive behaviors and decrease the likelihood of future perpetration. 

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City Visions Radio Presents: “Understanding and Preventing Teen Dating Violence in the Bay Area”

Listen to the show that aired live on Monday June 11, 7:00 pm, KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco. 

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New York Times: Middle School Matters for Promoting Healthy Teen Relationships and Preventing Dating Abuse

The New York Times drew national attention to dating abuse and what middle school programs are doing to prevent through a feature and a parenting blog post. New York Times reporter Jan Hoffman focuses on Start Strong Idaho, one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships grantees, which targets 11- to 14-year-olds and engages the entire community in innovative ways to promote healthy relationships and stop dating violence and abuse before it starts. New York Times Learning Network followed with a

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The President, Vice President, Joe Torre, and high profile athletes call upon men to step up and speak out against dating violence

The President, Vice President, Joe Torre, and high profile athletes call upon men to step up and speak out against dating violence

Vice President Biden, Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett and White House Advisor on Violence Against Women Lynn Rosenthal hosted an event on June 21, 2012 to launch a new Public Service Announcement (PSA) about dating violence, as part of the Vice President’s 1 is 2 Many campaign.

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A public health approach to intimate partner violence prevention

Since 2003, with support from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence and local California communities have participated in the Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA) Project to enhance and lead intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention in California to greater effectiveness.

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The Partnership awarded “Core Competencies for Domestic Violence and Teen Dating Violence Primary Prevention” contract

The California Partnership to End Domestic Violence (the Partnership) has been awarded an important statewide contract from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to develop, implement and evaluate core competencies for domestic violence and teen dating violence primary prevention efforts.

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The federal government will now model what schools accross California should also do – put policies in place to address abuse in intimate relationships

On April 18, 2012, the Obama Administration announced new efforts to help address and prevent domestic violence in the federal workplace.

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Our goal is to prevent dating abuse on middle school and high school campuses in California.

“Our schools need to be safe havens for all students, and it is critical that we provide school leaders with tools and resources to help them become stronger partners in reducing teen dating violence and other forms of gender-based violence… Like bullying, teen dating violence has far-reaching consequences for the health and life outcomes of victims. We need to do everything we can to make sure all students are safe.” - US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

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New study finds teen dating violence behaviors and risk factors common among 7th-grade students

A new study of 1,430 7th-grade students released today reveals that many 7th-graders are dating and experiencing physical, psychological and electronic dating violence. More than one in three (37%) students surveyed report being a victim of psychological dating violence and nearly one in six (15%) report being a victim of physical dating violence. 

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Mika’s story

Mika is a dating abuse survivor and an advocate and educator for healthy relationships and dating abuse prevention.

My name is Mika Sasaki and I live in San Francisco. 

My first relationships in high school were emotionally abusive and controlling. My boyfriends told me where I could go and who I could hang out with, and yelled and called me names if I didn’t do what they told me. This became normal for me.

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Lawrence’s story: “Adopting and implementing dating abuse policies is beneficial and practical for school districts, even in a tough fiscal environment”

As an administrator in the area of student and family support services, Lawrence Shweky has learned about teen dating abuse directly from young people, as well as from many school staff that have expressed concerns about these issues. 

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