The Guidelines
Guideline 9
Delivered Creatively and in a Variety of Settings
Effective strategies utilize creative settings (e.g., sports, arts, gaming, nature, etc.) to deliver primary prevention messages that will sustain engagement from different people and communities.
Prevention staff employ different methods to deliver messages and to engage the audience. A wide variety of techniques are used to appeal to different learning styles, including activities, experiences, creative arts, media, and robust dialogue.
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Safe Bars helps bars, restaurants, breweries, and other alcohol-serving spaces create safe and welcoming cultures for patrons, and safe and respectful workplaces for staff. Safe Bars offers three programs: active bystander skills, empowerment and self-defense, and de-escalation for hospitality professionals.
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In the blog 10 Inspiring Ways Sport Drives Culture Change to End Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, author Lindsay McDaniel Mapp outlines the role that sport can play in preventing sexual and domestic violence.
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In the web conference Reimagining Gender for a World Without Violence: Art and Storytelling Led by Black Organizers, organizers with the Wakanda Dream Lab outline how they have used popular culture like “Black Panther (2018),” and various expressions of art and storytelling to heal and activate for ending gender-based and racial violence.
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In the web conference Moving Power: Authentically Engaging Youth in the Community to Prevent Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence, presenters discuss how they involve youth from historically marginalized and disadvantaged communities in civic engagement, build trusting relationships with youth for development and program leadership, and create space for youth to lead prevention and social justice efforts by being effective, authentic, and accountable adult allies.
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Need guidance on facilitation? This handout from Training for Change offers tips for meeting facilitation. Training for Change’s People-Centered versus Curriculum-Centered Design is a helpful resource for prevention staff who are putting together workshops or meetings.
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