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College Athletics Role in SV Prevention Report

NCAA

This best practice guide for athletics administrators and campus partners provides recommended approaches to prevent or reduce the incidents of sexual assault and other acts of interpersonal violence on college campuses.

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Escalation Workshop

One Love Foundation

OneLove Foundation's Escalation workshop is a powerful, emotionally-engaging 90-minute film based workshop that educates your community about relationship violence and empowers you to work for change. This workshop is research based and is facilitated by students. Access to this resource is FREE. Additionally, athletes and other leaders can be trained as facilitators of this workshop. 

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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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Girls on the Run Program

Girls on the Run

Meeting twice a week in small teams, Girls on the Run programs (local) teach life skills through fun, engaging lessons that celebrate the joy of movement. The curriculum is taught by certified Girls on the Run® coaches and includes three parts: understanding ourselves, valuing relationships and teamwork and understanding how we connect with and shape the world at large. Over the course of the program, girls will develop and improve competence, feel confidence in who they are, develop strength of character, respond to others and oneself with care, create positive connections with peers and adults, and make a meaningful contribution to community and society. 

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Guidelines for Administrators, Coaches, and Athletes

Women's Sports Foundation

Officials who are responsible for the administration and oversight of coaches and athletic programs should implement a policy prohibiting any ritual verbal, psychological or physical abuse of any player by a coach or fellow teammate that assaults, belittles or demeans. Suggestions for action and definitions of abuse are outlined here. 

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Handout for Dads

All Pro Dads

All Pro Dad is committed to building strong families and partnered with the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence to create this handout that encourages dads to teach their sons how to treat a girl. 

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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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Impact Toolkit

Men As Peacemakers

Coaches already serve as one of the most important role models in the lives of your players. We want to help ensure coaches are leaving a lasting, positive impact on your players. The Impact Coaching Toolkit provides coaches with tips, examples, and methods for promoting respect and gender equity and recognizing signs of harassment and abuse.

THE TOOLKIT

• Awareness Guide- a pocket reference that gives you the tools necessary to recognize harm and take appropriate action
• Coaches’ Insert- a preventative guide to promoting messages of respect and gender equity with your players
• Clipboard
• Bag-tag

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Impact Training Program

Men As Peacemakers

Impact Training Program trains coaches to actualize their potential as a key role model in the lives of their players.

Our programs drive a process of change through:

• Key note speaking engagements
• Online courses
• On-the-ground trainings
• Impact Coaching Toolkit
• Action plans, policies, procedures, and mission statements for athletic organizations
• General technical assistance

The Impact project shapes equitable athletic environments free from sexism, harassment, and harm. We are utilizing the power and influence of sports to prevent violence against women and children. 

Impact provides tools for athletic organizations and coaches to ensure they are leaving a lasting, positive impact on players.

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Key Actions Handout/Video for Parents and Coaches

Positive Coaching Alliance

These materials for youth and high school sports parents and coaches can help prevent sex abuse. These resources were developed through PCA's partnership with Kidpower International, a leading non-profit in teaching personal safety to all ages and abilities and in protecting young people from bullying, violence, and abuse worldwide since 1989. They include support by Green Bay Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy, a PCA National Advisory Board Member.

Murphy said of these resources: “Abuse prevention is critical to providing children a positive, character-building youth sports experience. That’s why the Packers and I support this effort by PCA and its partners. The more we can spread these abuse-prevention resources, the safer our kids will be.”

This document includes key actions for parents and coaches and is accompanied by this video. You’ll learn about common warning signs of sexual abuse as well as what you can do in your role.

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List of Therapists for Athlete Survivors of SV/DV

Safe4Athletes

Safe4Athletes suggests seeking appropriately trained and credentialed professionals for athletes when seeking help when an athlete may have encountered sexual abuse, bullying and harassment.  

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LIVERESPECT Training Program

A CALL TO MEN

A CALL TO MEN’s Curriculum,  LIVERESPECT™ Coaching Healthy & Respectful Manhood, offers coaches, educators, mentors and youth advocates the tools to build young men of character.

The curriculum, ideal for middle and high school age boys:

• promotes healthy, respectful manhood
• decreases language and actions that degrade women, girls and other marginalized groups
• challenges harmful cultural and social norms 
• decreases instances of bullying and homophobia

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LostBoyz Program

LostBoyz

Lost Boyz Inc.'s mission is to decrease violence, improve the social and emotional conditions, and provide financial opportunities among the youth in Chicago's South Shore community. With baseball training and competitive participation as our core drivers, our mission is achieved through high-intensity mentoring, intervention, and social entrepreneurship activities. We also incorporate cultural awareness, service learning, and civic engagement. We use this combination of programming and direct interaction to positively and permanently impact the lives of school age youth, resulting in life-altering character development and improved decision making.

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MEND Toolkit For Coaches

MEND

The MEND Toolkit is just that, a toolkit. Think of this resource as a box of tools through which you can pick and chose which tool you want to use. As you complete each module, a new tool will be added to your “toolbox.” Once the entire Toolkit is completed, you should have all the tools you need to educate boys and change the culture that supports violence.

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MEND Training

MEND

Powered by the YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee, MEND works to end violence against women by engaging and educating men. The YWCA has extensive experience treating the symptom, but violence against women is truly a man’s problem that desperately needs a cure. When men understand how our culture supports violence, they become a major part of the solution.

Objectives of this training include:

• Raise awareness about the prevalence of violence against women
• Uncover subtle ways our society reinforces sexist and objectifying biases
• Connect the dots between harmful jokes and actions
• Unpack the difference between healthy and unhealthy masculinity
• Empower attendees with situational examples and strategies to step up and speak out against negative cultural norms
• Challenge attendees to help create a community that respects and values women and girls

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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 Playbooks & Trainer's Guide

Mentors in Violence Prevention Strategies

Sets of MVP playbooks and trainer’s guides are currently available for purchase on a sample basis. Items available include:

For High Schools

- MVP Playbook for High School Males
- MVP Trainer’s Guide for Working With High School Males
- MVP Playbook for High School Females
- MVP Trainer’s Guide for Working With High School Females

For Colleges

- MVP Playbook for College Males
- MVP Trainer’s Guide for Working With College Males
- MVP Playbook for College Females (coming soon)
- MVP Trainer’s Guide for Working With College Females (coming soon)

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myPlaybook

Prevention Strategies

myPlaybook is a collection of online lessons used to promote the health and well-being of student-athletes in high school athletics as well as NCAA and NAIA collegiate athletics. 

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