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ItsOnUs Video PSAs

ItsOnUs

Access over 20 ItsOnUs PSAs with celebrities or create your own PSA by downloading the PSA script here. 

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Kings Over Violence Awareness Campaign

LA Kings & Peace Over Violence

Kings and Peace Over Violence (POV) will create a promotional campaign entitled “Kings Over Violence” in an effort to create a platform to significantly increase awareness against violence. Within this campaign, the Kings will seek to support the goals of POV, which is dedicated to building healthy relationships, families and communities free from sexual, domestic and interpersonal violence.

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Local YWCA & NFL Team Partnership

Cincinnati Bengal & YWCA of Greater Cincinnati

Cincinnati Bengals  partnered with the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati to help reduce incidents of domestic violence.  Bengals provided support for the YWCA to purchase Domestic Violence Inventory assessments that they were unable to afford due to limited funding.  These DVIs were administered to individuals who do harm to their significant others (e.g., intimate partner violence) to help determine their level of risk for repeat behaviors.   

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Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Strategies Training Program

MVP Strategies

MVP provides the leadership necessary, within sport and beyond, to address the global issues of sexism – especially men’s violence against women. In our advocacy efforts and training programs, we educate, inspire and empower men & women to prevent, interrupt and respond to sexist abuse.

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Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policies (MAAPP) Microsite

U.S. Center for SafeSport

The U.S. Center for SafeSport launched the Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policies (MAAPP) Microsite. This Microsite organizes dozens of resources that break down safety principles specific to parents, adult athletes, coaches, and others who can prevent abuse against young athletes.

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MVP Program Evaluations

MVP Strategies

MVP has been independently evaluated in high school, college, professional and military settings and has been proven to have statistically significant positive changes in participant knowledge, attitude, and behavior. View a list of these reports on this site. 

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National Leadership Conference

Play Like A Champion

Every June, coaches; athletic administrators; school superintendents, principals, and teachers; pediatricians; child psychologists; and civic leaders concerned about child welfare across the United States and around the world will gather at Play Like a Champion Today’s National Sports Leadership Conference to set an inclusive, value-driven agenda for the future of youth and high school sports.

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NCAA Sexual Violence Prevention Toolkit

NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association)

The NCAA Sexual Assault Task Force convened in 2015 to provide clear direction on a curriculum that will help athletics departments engage in education, collaboration and compliance surrounding sexual violence issues. This tool kit, initiated by the task force, builds on critical elements outlined in the fall 2014 NCAA publication “Addressing Sexual Assault and Interpersonal Violence: Athletics’ Role in Support of Healthy and Safe Campuses.” The toolkit focuses on 5 areas of commitment with checklists and implementation tools:

1. Leadership

2. Collaboration

3. Compliance and Accountability

4. Education

5. Student-Athlete Engagement 

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NO MORE

NO MORE

NO MORE aims to raise public awareness and engagement around ending domestic violence and sexual assault. Launched in March 2013 by a coalition of leading advocacy groups, service providers, the U.S. Department of Justice, and major corporations, NO MORE is supported by hundreds of national and local groups and by thousands of individuals, organizations, universities, and communities who are using its signature blue symbol to increase visibility for domestic violence and sexual assault.

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Nudge Program Tip Sheet

YMCA of Central Ohio

We as YMCA staff, members, community members and volunteers need to build on the work we’ve done and develop the three habits in child abuse prevention:

1. We Know: when we understand the common practices of those who harm you and the best practices to stop them.
2. We See: when we can recognize the warning signs or behaviors that signal abuse or risk for abuse.
3. We Respond: when we take action in response to behaviors we recognize as being inappropriate or questionable.

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Nudge Program White Paper

YMCA

Abstract - Preventing child sexual abuse (CSA) continues to be an emerging field of inquiry. With limited evidence-based practices in the primary prevention of CSA, there remains a Call to Action for new approaches to protect children ("Pillars for Prevention," 2015, p. 2, "Stop it Now!," 2010, p. 4). This paper explores the introduction of libertarian paternalism (LP) theory of nudging human behaviors, with a goal to impact adults in CSA prevention behaviors by the use of visual heuristics images, starting with youth-serving organization (YSO) personnel and beyond in their communities. Although similar approaches in prevention have not yet been applied in protecting children from sexual abuse, a cautious approach to this form of prevention is worth consideration for future study as an innovative way to empower all adults to develop behaviors that prevent CSA.

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One Love Foundation

One Love Foundation

It is the goal of the One Love Foundation to honor Yeardley Love, a unversity-level Lacrosse player beaten to death by her ex-boyfriend, by bringing an end to Relationship Violence by educating, empowering and activating campus communities in a movement for change. We know that, given the chance, Yeardley certainly would have wanted to help.

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Partner in Prevention Program

Darkness to Light

Organizations that apply and are approved are recognized as a Darkness to Light Partner in Prevention for a period of one year. The organization is given a dated Partner in Prevention emblem to display at their facility, place on their website, and use on printed materials. The emblem is a sign to the community that the organization has made a commitment to prevention and has put measures in place to prevent child sexual abuse in their organization and in their community.

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Partner in Prevention Training

Darkness to Light

Organizations that apply and are approved are recognized as a Darkness to Light Partner in Prevention for a period of one year. The organization is given a dated 
Partner in Prevention   emblem to display at their facility, place on their website, and use on printed materials. The emblem is a sign to the community that the organization has made a commitment to prevention and has put measures in place to prevent child sexual abuse in their organization and in their community.

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Podcast on media coverage of SV/DV

ESPN Radio

Sarah talks to Keri Potts about the role the media plays in covering sexual and partner violence.

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Positive Coaching Alliance Workshops

Positive Coaching Alliance

Typically, an individual school or youth sports organization hosts a Leadership workshop for its directors, a separate Double-Goal Coach workshop for all its coaches, and a separate Second-Goal Parent workshop. A Triple-Impact Competitor workshop is available for teenage athletes in the school or organization. PCA also offers Partnerships that include workshops for school districts, conferences, park-and-recreation organizations, leagues, and youth sports consortiums in all 50 states and several other nations. Each workshop takes anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours and is led by a PCA Trainer with deep athletic and coaching experience (usually at least three years at the high school level or above). The Trainer explains PCA's three key principles -- Redefining "Winning" as Mastery of Sport, Filling Emotional Tanks and Honoring the Game -- and leads attendees through a series of interactive exercises based on common youth sports scenarios. The result is that the group of leaders, coaches, parents or athletes begins to explore different approaches for success and establishes a common vocabulary for use in providing athletes a positive, character-building youth sports environment.

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Practical Guide for Youth Serving Organizations

Enough Abuse

A capacity building grant from the Ms. Foundation for Women and a seed grant from The Boston Bruins Foundation supported the development of our "GateKeepers for Kids: A Practical Guide for Youth Service Organizations" program. Its objective is to educate these institutions about the basics they must have in place to strengthen their child protection policies and practices. This 12-page Practical Guide details the latest training, screening and reporting strategies in the field and a set of Fact Sheets on training, screening, reporting, steps to develop a code of conduct so inappropriate behaviors can be identified early before they escalate to abuse, how to assess and modify physical spaces to reduce opportunities for sexual abuse to occur, etc.

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Protecting Children From Violence in Sport Report

UNICEF

In recognition of this, the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre commissioned a review of the available empirical research and policy initiatives on this subject. The research resulted in a wealth of information, now published in this report. ‘Protecting Children from Violence in Sport: A review with a focus on industrialized countries’ defines the many aspects of the issue, provides examples of both good and poor practice, and makes suggestions for sport organizations to assist them in their violence prevention work. In particular, the study recommends improvements in:

• Data collection and knowledge generation about violence to children in sport

• Development of structures and systems for eliminating and preventing violence to children in sport

• Education, awareness-raising and training on this subject

• Promotion of ethical guidelines and codes of conduct as part of the prevention system.

It is anticipated that by addressing these gaps, significant improvements will be realized for the promotion and protection of the rights of children in sport.

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Refuse to Abuse

Seattle Mariners (MLB) & Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence

The basics

Refuse To Abuse® is a statewide community education program that helps prevent domestic violence. The program is sponsored by the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Seattle Mariners, with significant assistance from the advertising firm Craters of the Moon. Television, radio, and print public service announcements have been produced featuring prominent Mariners players and managers, including Felix Hernandez, Jamie Moyer, Raul Ibañez, and Kyle Seager. An annual Refuse To Abuse® 5K at Safeco Field draws Mariners fans, runners, walkers, and community supporters, giving a broad audience the chance to join the Mariners and “refuse to abuse.”

Purpose

Refuse To Abuse® aims to raise awareness and help prevent domestic violence. High profile athletes and recognized community leaders are speaking out against domestic violence and asking for a commitment from others in the community to join them.

Why the Mariners are involved

Few professional teams have chosen to take such a public stand against domestic violence. For the past 21 years the Seattle Mariners have done more than just talk about helping raise awareness about this issue, they have stood firm in their leadership role. Having credible, professional male athletes speak out on this issue helps send a powerful message to young people.

About the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WSCADV)

WSCADV is a non-profit network of nearly 70 community domestic violence programs. We improve how communities respond to domestic violence and work to create a social intolerance for abuse. 

Attachment: Refuse To Abuse.pdf

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Right to Play Child Protection Policy

Right to Play

This resource is Right to Play's Child Protect Policy template, which includes procedures for responding to sexual abuse reports. 

Right To Play is an international humanitarian and development organization that uses sport and play to improve health and life skills, and foster peace for children and communities in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the world. We recognize that we have a fundamental duty of care towards children and we acknowledge our responsibilities to keep children safe while engaged in our programs and activities.

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