Perpetration: Reducing the Likelihood of Sexual Assault

Session Four: Strategies for Working with
Boys and Men to Prevent Perpetration
By Jackson Katz, Ed.M.
When: March 10, 2003 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
How to call in: 1-800-311-3437
Conference Code: 945383

In session four, Mr. Jackson Katz will
discuss strategies for inspiring boys and young men to be allies in
anti-sexist education and to actively prevent gender violence. These
concrete strategies have grown out of the work that Katz and his colleagues
have done over the past decade with racially and ethnically diverse
populations of college and high school students, including student-athletes;
college men, including fraternity members and student-athletes; U.S.
Marines; and others. Katz will discuss how both women and men can more
effectively reach boys and men with gender violence prevention messages.
Mr. Katz is one of America's leading
anti-sexist male activists. In 1993, he founded the multi-racial,
mixed-gender Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Program, at Northeastern
University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society. MVP is the first
large-scale attempt to enlist high school, collegiate and professional
athletes in the fight against all forms of men's violence against women.
Today, MVP is the most widely utilized gender violence prevention program in
college athletics. It has been implemented in over 85 colleges and
universities. MVP is also being used by the New England Patriots football
club. Since 1997 Katz has been directing the first worldwide gender violence
prevention program in the history of the United States Marine Corps. He is
a member of the Secretary of Defense's Task Force on Domestic Violence in
the military.

Over the past two years, Katz and his
colleagues have been implementing MVP in high schools throughout Jefferson
County, Colorado, including Columbine High School. Mr. Katz is the creator
of an award-winning educational video for college and high school students,
entitled "Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity."
Tough Guise was named one of the top ten young adult videos for 2000 by the
American Library Association. His new video, "Wrestling With Manhood," was
just released by the Media Education Foundation.

Jackson Katz has published widely in
academic journals and popular newspapers. He is frequently quoted in the
national media, and has appeared on numerous radio programs in the U.S. &
Canada, as well as TV programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning
America, Montel Williams, the CBS Evening News, MSNBC and ABC News 20/20.
The dates for the fifth call in the series,
Featured Community Programs Working with Boys and Men, are being determined.
If you have any questions about this series,
please contact Cassandra McNeil at cmcneil@... <mailto:cmcneil@...>
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Rebecca K. Odor, MSW
Director, Sexual Violence Prevention
Center for Injury and Violence Prevention
Virginia Department of Health
1500 East Main Street, Suite 105
Richmond VA 23219
Phone: (804) 692-0406
Fax: (804) 786-0917
Email: rodor@...
web: www.vahealth.org/civp/sexualviolence