Coaching boys into men: A gender-based violence prevention program

Saturday, March 31, 2012: 2:10 PM-3:30 PM
Yerba Buena Salon 1-3 (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Speakers:
Brian O'Connor, MS, Futures Without Violence
Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Authors:
Ravi Verma, PhD, International Center for Research on Women
Madhumita Das, PhD, International Center for Research on Women

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Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:
  1. Identify strategies for engaging men and boys and to introduce a social norms change and bystander intervention program to prevent gender-based violence through involvement of coaches and student athletes
  2. Explore evaluation results from the US and India of the Coaching Boys into Men program which point to changes in intentions to intervene, recognition of abusive behaviors, bystander behaviors, and abuse perpetration
  3. Identify ways to approach school administrators, athletic directors and coaches and utilize lessons learned in implementation of this program
Description:
This session will highlight strategies for engaging men and boys and to introduce an evidence-based social norms change and bystander intervention program to prevent gender-based violence through involvement of coaches and student athletes.