Back to School Training Series
As the school year approaches, parents and educators are gearing up for another transition. NYSCADV (New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence) along with their partners in prevention, the New York State Coalition against Sexual Assault (NYSCASA,) is pleased to present a 3 part webinar training series focusing on parent engagement strategies for back to school season. Sessions within the training series will offer valuable support for prevention educators that are engaging parents, especially fathers and father figures as well as teachers, enabling them to engage with children, teens, and young adults in discussions about healthy relationship behaviors during various life transitions.
Training dates and descriptions are included below:
Back to School Series: So, You Want to Work with Youth?
Wednesday, August 9, from 1:00 - 2:30 PM
Featuring: Lorien Castelle, NYSCADV Director of Prevention and Brittni Gulotty, NYSCADV Public Policy Coordinator
Preventing domestic and sexual violence is a community responsibility that relies on a collaborative, coordinated community response. Sustainable social change is possible but only when resources, education, training, and services, are available to all community members, including youth. After all, youth are exposed to and experience domestic and sexual violence at rates equal to that of adults and yet the parameters around serving young people who have been victimized are often murky.
Join NYSCADV for a learning exchange focused on working with youth and addressing some of the challenges we face. Don’t forget to bring your experiences, best practices, and questions!
*This session is open to NYS based Rape Crisis Advocates and staff of private, nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations and programs that primarily provide shelter and supportive services to adult and youth victims of family violence, domestic violence, sexual violence, or dating violence, and their dependents. This includes programs that are licensed by the NYS Office for Children and Family Services or have local NY Department of Social Services contracts to provide domestic violence services, either residential or nonresidential.
Engaging Dads with their Sons in Mind
Wednesday, August 16, from 1:00 -2:30 PM
Featuring: Rus Ervin Funk, MSW, CSE and George Kilpatrick, Director of Prevention and Education at Vera House
Fathers have a powerful role they can play in efforts to prevent gender-based violence, but are rarely considered as a specific audience for community-based prevention initiatives. Regardless of where they are in the parenting life cycle (new parents, fathers of tweens, teens, college-aged kids), where they are positioned (stay-at-home dads, dads who are in the homes with their kids, step-dads or foster dads, or dads who live separately from their children) the sexuality or gender identity of themselves or their kids, all people who father help support and shape their children's attitudes and behaviors in regards to flirting, dating, relationships and promoting the development of healthy communication behaviors.
Join us for this webinar, where we discuss the role of fathers and strategies to engage fathers in community-based efforts to prevent gender-based violence effectively. Rus Funk and George Kilpatrick are both fathers themselves (Rus the parent of a teen, George a parent of older kids) and long-time organizers for engaging men in their respective communities. They will share not only their personal experiences of becoming engaged and how being a father informed their work; but also share concrete strategies for meaningfully reaching, recruiting and mobilizing fathers.
Who Should Attend: Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence Prevention Educators & Advocates, Youth Advocates, Coaches, Youth Community Activity Leaders, Athletic Directors, School Administrators, School Counselors, Parents, State Partners, Funders
Engaging Men in the Digital Age
Wednesday, August 23, from 1:00 - 2:30 PM
Featuring: Adam Dodge, Founder of EndTAB and The Tech-Savvy Parent
Violence against women online is viewed by many as a 'women's issue.' It isn't. The reality is that abuse has become increasingly gendered online - underscoring the need for all of us, especially men, to examine how we got here and what we can do engage men to be part of the solution. This session discusses issues like rejection violence in online spaces, cyber-flashing and cyberstalking.
Who Should Attend: Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence Prevention Educators & Advocates, Youth Advocates, Coaches, Youth Community Activity Leaders, Athletic Directors, School Administrators, School Counselors, Parents, State Partners, Funders
