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IMPACT Administrators' Toolkit

Men As Peacemakers

A 6-step guide to saftey & gender equity in sports.

This toolkit includes resources for Executive Directors, Club Presidents, Coaching Directors or other leaders of community athletic organizations. The resources included will teach your coaches to promote safety, respect, and gender equity with all players. This guide is meant to provide examples and a framework for the development of your organization’s policies and procedures. Our previous work with the Minnesota State High School League, Arrowhead Youth Soccer Association, Winona Youth Soccer Association, and other sports organizations, has taught us that every organization is unique. We encourage you to work with us directly to tailor your approach to your specific community of coaches and players. Contact Men As Peacemakers at info@menaspeacemakers.org or 218-727-1939 to get started.

Attachment: Administrators-Toolkit_9-25.pdf

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A CALL TO COACHES Training Events

A CALL TO MEN

A CALL TO COACHES is a series of educational training events where coaches are empowered to build young men of character, to promote healthy, respectful manhood, and prevent violence and discrimination against all women and girls.  Often in partnership with members of the sport community, these events speak to sport leaders in a language that can be understood and used in a sport setting. 

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All Pro Dad Campaign

Family First & Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Family First and the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence (FCADV) partnered to take a stand against domestic violence throughout Florida. The partnership provides the opportunity to collaborate and share common messages about domestic violence prevention, strong families, and healthy relationships, focusing on engaging boys, men and especially fathers.Family First is a national nonprofit organization that reaches millions of parents each day through its three primary programs: All Pro Dad, iMOM and the Family Minute with Mark Merrill. 

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Branded a Leader Training

Institute for Sport and Social Justice

Branded a Leader, created in 2008 by the National Consortium for Academics & Sports (NCAS),now officially the Institute For Sport & Social Justice (Institute SSJ) was developed in partnership with Michigan State University. Michigan State’s Student Athlete Support Services was seeking a training that would engage their student-athletes in educational discussions on key issues such as: Violence Against Women, Alcohol & Drugs, Hazing and Responsible Computing. The Southeastern Conference (SEC) adopted BAL as a conference-wide training initiative beginning in 2008.

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Champions Building Champions

Men As Peacemakers

Champions Building Champions is a highly successful athletic mentoring program that connects Duluth youth with college athletes. With the help of our partners, Arrowhead Youth Soccer Association, UMD athletics, the Boys and Girls Club, and Duluth Parks, we run weekly sports sessions for youth. Our activities are free and open to everyone. We provide athletic opportunities for all youth, regardless of economic background.

All activities are facilitated by collegiate athletes who focus on building constructive relationships with the youth involved.  By providing kids with strong male and female role models we strive to instill positive values: respect, gender equity, commitment, and leadership.

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Character Initiative Grant (InSideOut Program)

InSideOut Initiative, Arlington School District, and Dallas Cowboys (NFL)

InSideOut Initiative began in January 2016 with the the Dallas Cowboys in coordination with the NFL Foundation on a character education program that has been endorsed by the UIL and the Texas High School Coaches Association. The Cowboys have helped host three InSideOut meetings with key superintendents and athletic decision-makers across the start to help bring awareness to this initiative.

Subsequently, the Arlington ISD was awarded nearly $30,000 in grants from the Gene and Jerry Jones Family Arlington Youth Foundation to support a character training initiative for 375 AISD secondary coaches with Joe Ehrmann, former NFL Colts player and co-founder of the InSideOut Initiative and Jody Redman, InSideOut Initiative co-founder and Minnesota State High School League associate director.

For more on the national InSideOut Initative, visit https://insideoutinitiative.org/

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Cleveland Says NO MORE Campaign

Cleveland Browns (NFL), Domestic Violence & Child Advocacy Center, and City of Cleveland's Division of Police

The Cleveland Browns partnered with the City of Cleveland’s Division of Police as well as the Domestic Violence & Child Advocacy Center to help create awareness for Domestic Violence during the month of October (2016) and to support efforts locally in Cleveland.  This included support of the Division of Police’s Cleveland Says NO MORE initiative, and the DVCAC’s programming and services offered to those affected by DV. Throughout the month of October, the City, community partners and sponsors hosted weekly events to raise awareness about domestic violence and ask Clevelander’s to join in the City’s campaign efforts to end violence.

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Coaching Boys into Men Program

Futures Without Violence

FUTURES’ Coaching Boys into Men (CBIM) program facilitates these connections by providing high school athletic coaches with the resources they need to promote respectful behavior among their players and help prevent relationship abuse, harassment, and sexual assault")

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Coaching Boys into Men Video Series

Futures Without Violence & FISA Foundation

This site provides video resources to supplement the Coaching Boys Into Men dating violence prevention program for high school athletic coaches to use with their male athletes. If you have the curricula, you can proceed to Getting Started videos to help you prepare to deliver CBIM, or use the menu to skip to any of the topics in the card series. FISA Foundation, in partnership with The Heinz Endowments and the United Way of Allegheny County developed Southwest PA Says No More to showcase the important prevention-focused work happening here, and to make it easier for individuals and organizations to take action to stop gender-based violence. One area of focus is Sport and Athletics.

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Coaching For Change

Men As Peacemakers

Coaching for Change is an interactive on-line training that provides coaches on the ground examples of how to recognize and address issues of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, teen dating violence, and domestic violence.  The training focuses on the primary prevention of these behaviors by introducing skills and strategies which create a team culture of gender equity and respect. This is a mandated training by the Minnesota State High School League for MN state high school coaches’ licensure.

This free training is available to all- Just sign in with your email address and city/state and you'll receive access. 

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Dating Violence Education Workshop

One Love Foundation & Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL)

The Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL) partnered with their local United Way and One Love Foundation to help bring awareness of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault to high school age students throughout the Jaguars community.

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Domestic Violence Awareness Month Events

New York Jets (NFL), Jersey Battered Women's Services, & OneLove Foundation

During Domestic Awareness Month (October 2016), the New York Jets partnered with the Jersey Battered Women’s Services (JBWS) and the One Love Foundation to participate in two very important events. NY Jets hosted an Escalation Workshop on dating violence.  The Atlantic Health Jets Women’s Organization (AHJWO) visited the Jersey Battered Women’s Services emergency safe house on Tuesday, preparing new and donated designer handbags for the silent auction fundraiser called the “Old Bags Luncheon.”

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DV Program & Local Team Partnership

Buffalo Bills & Family Justice Center - Erie County

The Buffalo Bills partnered with the Family Justice Center - Erie County to help expand their services to victims and use technology to combat the tactics being used by perpetrators.  Includes education to the community to help safely identify DV victims and provide personal alarms for DV victims, computer screening for clients, stalking brochures and healthy relationship brochures

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DV Shelter Donations

Indianapolis Colts (NFL) & Sheltering Wings

The Indianapolis Colts and Meijer team-up to provide families involved with Sheltering Wings, an organization that provides emergency housing for victims of domestic violence, a $300 gift card to help stock-up on food and clothes for the winter in 2016.

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Fear 2 Freedom Packaging Event

Fear 2 Freedom & Washington Redskins (NFL)

Washington Redskins (NFL) rookies, veterans and staff members on Monday assembled care packages for victims of domestic violence.  The kits include new clothing, toiletries, childrens' toys, a "Freedom Bear" and storybook that serves as a counseling tool. The afternoon began in the auditorium at Redskins Park, where all team representatives listened to a survivor of sexual assault prior to assembling the kits. The F2F kits assembled by the Redskins players and staff will be distrivuted to the Inova Health System Ewing Forensic Assessment and Consultation Teams (FACT) and other local domestic violence shelters.

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Game Change: The Patriot's Anti-Violence Partnership

New England Patriots (NFL) Charitable Foundation, MA Attorney General's Office, and Robert Kraft

Robert Kraft (New England Patriot's owner) and the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation teamed with Attorney General Maura Healey to create Game Change: The Patriots Anti-Violence Program. The program works with anti-violence organizations to provide support to victims of domestic violence, while also providing anti-violence training to students.  The goal of the program is to build the capacity in 98 area schools to implement effective violence prevention education for students, coaches and faculty.  Game Change is a multi-year, multi-phased initiative with a budget of $650,000 ($500K of which was provided by Mr. Kraft and the Patriots, $150K provided by the AGO).

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Great Think - Youth Safety

Boys and Girls Club of America

In September 2014, more than 80 experts from federal agencies, associations, corporations and nonprofit groups gathered for the Youth Safety Great Think. Participants discussed critical youth safety topics and identified areas of focus and action to protect and safeguard our youth. It marked the start of an important national dialogue about how to keep youth safe in out-of-school time settings.

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Huddle Up to End Gender Based Violence

Institute for Sport and Social Justice

Huddle Up leverages the transcendent power of sport to eradicate gender violence, in all of its forms, and the sexism underpinning this abuse. In sport, the huddle is a powerful symbol of togetherness, a place where many become one. In the huddle, teammates convene to reinforce their union, challenge & support one another, and communicate strategy. In the huddle, teammates forget past set-backs, galvanize conviction, and always have a unified front against the opponent. Huddle Up harnesses that power by challenging, educating, and empowering participants to be "all-in" to defeat our opponent – sexist abuse.

Huddle Up addresses the full continuum of abusive behaviors and empowers participants to understand how misogynistic language, sexual harassment, gendered bullying, sexual assault, rape and domestic violence are linked together. This understanding inspires participants to have the courage to challenge behaviors on all levels of the continuum.

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IMPACT Prevention Resources

Men As Peacemakers

This guide is designed to help coaches like you promote respect and equality, reduce violence and identify signs of abuse among your players.

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InSideOut Initative

InSideOut Initiative

To reclaim the educational purpose of sports, school communities must work together to redefine the purpose, and intentionally align key stakeholders around this purpose. It’s critical that school leaders and communities have an in-depth understanding of the purpose of education-based athletic programs, and use a shared common language. The InSideOut System provides a pathway for systemic change—moving educational communities through a four-part process centering on Awareness, Alignment, Action, and Accountability. 

• Awareness – Defines the purpose of education-based athletics
• Alignment – Instills a common language
• Action – Provides education, resources and tools
• Accountability – Establishes clear expectations, policies and procedures

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