This module provides a strong case on why it is important to engage and mobilize men in gender-based violence prevention. It also highlights key barriers impeding men’s participation while also offering 13 pragmatic tips to overcome these challenges, with an emphasis on the importance of framing calls to action that are strength-based. This module was … Continue Reading
This course provides a strong case and rationale on why we need to engage men in our violence prevention and gender justice efforts. It also highlights key barriers of what is getting in men’s way to participate and how we can overcome these barriers. The course provides pragmatic strategies to get ourselves ready to work … Continue Reading
This module aims to help participants better understand four mental models that are getting in the way of our efforts to stop violence before it starts. Participants will learn how to examine our specific thought processes that are getting in the way of prevention efforts and how we can shift our perspective to move upstream … Continue Reading
This module supports participants to engage in a transformational learning process so that they can effectively advocate for violence prevention. Activities and tools are offered throughout the module to support participants to integrate transformational learning approaches with others so, together, we can stop violence before it starts.
This module advances participants’ understanding of the root causes of domestic and sexual violence. Participants learn different strategies on how they can focus their time and advocacy efforts on addressing risk factors for violence. Using the work in Alberta as a case example, the module provides tools and resources that can be effectively applied anywhere … Continue Reading
This module focuses on the importance of public policy and why it is essential to use a human rights and social justice approach when developing policies to prevent domestic and sexual violence. Participants will learn about the stages of the public policy process while learning how public and social policies can stop the perpetration of … Continue Reading
This module provides participants with a strong foundation in primary prevention. It covers the concept and importance of primary prevention, the prevalence, cost, and complexity of domestic and sexual violence, as well as the dominant theories and approaches used to address and prevent these forms of violence. Whether you are a policymaker, a leader or … Continue Reading
Welcome to our fifth module together called Shifting our perspectives: Understanding and tackling the mental models that create tensions in our primary prevention efforts. This is one of five modules that we have designed to help build your capacity to advance primary prevention approaches throughout Alberta. Click on Course Content to start the Module.
Welcome to our fourth module together called Changing Us First, to Change the Root Causes of Violence. This is one of five modules that we have designed to help build your capacity to advance primary prevention approaches throughout Alberta. Click on Course Content to start the Module.
Welcome to our third module together called Going upstream: Understanding root causes to stop violence before it starts. This is one of five modules that we have designed to help build your capacity to advance primary prevention approaches throughout Alberta. Click on Course Content to start the Module.
Welcome to our second module together called Understanding public policy, social policy, and why Alberta needs a primary prevention framework to prevent domestic and sexual violence. This is one of five modules that we have designed to help build your capacity to advance primary prevention approaches throughout Alberta. Click on Course Content below to start … Continue Reading
Welcome to our first module together called Stopping Violence Before It Starts: Why Primary Prevention Matters Learning Module. This is one of five modules that we have designed to help build your capacity to advance primary prevention approaches throughout Alberta. Click on Course Content below to start the Module.