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Bold Joyful Sexuality and Repro Justice Action Plan
As advocates and preventionists, we can take steps in our professional roles to create a world where all people experience joyful sexuality and reproductive justice. Let’s practice setting a bold action plan for how we can integrate joyful sexuality and reproductive justice across each level of the Social Ecological Model. Below we’ve provided prompts, as well as examples, to get you started.
This is a fun and flexible activity. You can use it in so many ways: for personal reflection, as an exercise in your staff as team building or in-service, use with community partners when mapping out shared values or potential projects, or in programming with youth and adults.
Me: What will you do as an advocate or preventionist?
Examples: I will donate money to abortion funds; I will know my body better; I will experience holistic pleasure.
My Relationships: What can you do to support survivors and clients?
Examples: I will support the survivors that I work with in dating online/forming new relationships online; I will uplift diverse experiences of pleasure; I will explicitly incorporate consent into my relationships with clients.
My Organization : What can you do in your agency? What about with your agency’s partners?
Examples: I will look into my agency’s policies surrounding dress codes; my organization will form partnerships and collaborate with organizations in my community who are working on issues related to reproductive justice; my organization will offer space and resources to organizations working on reproductive justice.
Our Larger Community/Society: What will you do to make an impact on your larger community and society?
Examples: I will connect with my legislators/advocate for policies that center reproductive justice (e.g., access to abortion care and contraception, comprehensive sexuality education, access to childcare and paid parental leave, etc.); I will push against heteronormative policies.
Budgeting: A Guide for Small Nonprofit Organizations
Budgeting: A Guide for Small Nonprofit Organizations is provided by the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants. This 8-page document provides an overview of the budget development process, including the role of the budget committee, setting budget priorities and realities, preparation timeline, how to use the budget as a management tool. Great resource for new directors and financial managers!
Building Consentful Tech zine
(as originally posted on GutsMagazine.ca on 2/22/2018)
Our data can be so many things: our locations and travel times tracked by Uber, our search and browsing histories on Google, and the words we use frequently in our Facebook posts. Building Consentful Tech prompts tech creators, such as app and platform developers, to reflect on how they can give users more agency and information on how (and whether) they share their personal data.
Building Healthy Futures - Prevention education flyers
The Building Healthy Futures Fund (BHFF) was created to establish a statewide revenue source for local Sexual & Domestic Violence Agencies to implement evidence-informed prevention programming to disrupt the root causes of sexual and intimate partner violence.
These educational flyers were created to assist and support parents and other caring adults in young people's lives with approaching conversations about consent, sexuality, and gender expression and identity. Discussions about these topics are critical to a young person's healthy relationships, identity development, and lifelong well-being. Establishing a safer space to talk through what can be tough topics can open the door for them to ask a trusted adult about more difficult situations such as harm and abuse. We encourage you to explore the resources shared on each flyer or contact us at the Action Alliance if you would like to learn more!
If you would like to support the Building Healthy Futures Fund you can purchase a Peace Begins at Home license plate, Virginia’s only license plate to help fund prevention of sexual and domestic violence, here: bit.ly/peacebeginsathome.
Building Healthy Relationships Across Virginia
The Teen Dating Violence Prevention Facilitator’s Guide began its “life” in February 1996. The project benefited greatly when Cindy Katona agreed to lead the working committee. With her dedication, enthusiasm and remarkable creativity, Cindy inspired an amazing number of people to do an incredible amount of work. She also recruited vast numbers of volunteers from the Winchester area as ad-hoc members of the committee to field test and refine the curriculum. The First Edition of the guide, titled “Virginia Responds: Teens Building Violence-Free Relationships,” was published by VADV in early 1997, and was welcomed by a diverse range of professionals working with teens.
The year 2004 marked the official beginning of VSDVAA and a greater focus on primary prevention work. It was in this environment that dating violence prevention work with
teens became a priority, and VSDVAA took on the formidable task of revamping the Teen Dating Violence Prevention Facilitator’s Guide. Drawing upon the expertise and
enthusiasm of members of VTDVP Taskforce, VSDVAA staff member Brad Perry was able to obtain invaluable feedback about how the First Edition of the guide was being
used and how a subsequent edition should be modified in order to maximize functionality. Dozens of meetings and countless work hours later, a new, more streamlined
guide began to take shape with a greater focus on activities.
