Seizing Opportunities to Advance a Prevention Frame through the Media

Thursday, March 29, 2007 2:00-3:30 pm EST

Presenters: Larry Cohen, Rachel Davis, Greta Tubbesing Prevention
Institute.
Host: David Lee, Prevention Connection

Following recent school shootings in which girls were specifically
targeted, the primary response was to call for school safety generally
without attention to the gender of the victims or the implications. In
the wake of announcements for OJ Simpson's book on how he would have
committed murder, there was an outcry and plans were scrapped. But did
we miss an opportunity to bring attention to the need for prevention?
Working from two background readings in reaction to these events, this
web conference will examine how we can be better prepared to advance a
prevention frame through the media in light of public events in
violence against women and girls. We will share input and
recommendations from the recent Prevention Connection web dialogue on
this issue ("Where's the Prevention Frame?" held on January 23, 2007)
and explore further what an effective prevention frame might look like
and how we can advance it.

The same interactive technology used for previous web conferences will
be used for this event. Space will be limited to the first 450 registrants

Register at www.PreventConnect.org

Cost: Free

For more information:
Visit our web site
www.PreventConnect.org

Contact:
David S. Lee, MPH, Prevention Connection Manager
david@...
888-922-5227 x309; 916-446-8802 (TTY)

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an on-line workshop by calling on your phone and watching a
presentation from your computer screen using only your regular
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participate on-line answering polls and sending messages. If for some
reason you are unable to join on your computer, you can print out
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information on how MacIntosh users can participate.

What is a Web Dialogue?A Web Dialogue is a small interactive on-line
workshop to explore principles of prevention. Each Web Dialogue is
limited in size and to participants whom had attended a previous
Prevention Connection session.

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Coalition Against Sexual Assault and is sponsored by U.S. Centers for
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