Friday, March 30, 2012: 10:40 AM-12:00 PM
Yerba Buena Salon 1-3 (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the utility of theater as prevention/educational tool
- Discover the application of audience response system to sociocultural tailoring of interventions
This report illustrates the use of theater and audience response system as innovative tools for sociocultural tailoring of intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention programs. We created and evaluated PeerFormances, a teen dating violence prevention program for local Asian communities, using Form Theater, assessment of audience response, and involvement of peer educators. Forum Theater and audience response systems provide a unique opportunity to address a major gap in research—examination of effective and socioculturally relevant prevention intervention approaches.