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COVID-19 and Health Equity: How this Van is Meeting Survivors’ Needs During COVID-19

When Black Women’s Blueprint purchased their Sistas Van in 2019, their original plan was to use it as a mobile healing unit that would help survivors of sexual violence access support, healing, and reproductive care. But when the COVID-19 pandemic began, Black Women’s Blueprint saw that there was an increased need for essential supplies like food, clothes, and hygiene products, so the Sistas Van shifted their services to meet the immediate needs of their community. 

In the second episode of our COVID-19 and Health Equity series, NSVRC’s Louie Marven talks with Sadé Swift, Sista’s Van Coordinator, about how Sistas Van adapted in the wake of COVID-19 in order to meet their community’s needs.

For more information and transcripts visit www.nsvrc.org/podcasts. 

COVID-19 and Health Equity: What are the Connections?

In the first episode of our COVID-19 and Health Equity series, NSVRC’s Yolanda Edrington, Louie Marven, and Mo Lewis discuss what they are looking forward to learning throughout the series. They also talk about the connections between health equity, sexual assault prevention, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

For more information and transcripts visit www.nsvrc.org/podcasts. 

What is an Askable Adult?

Are you interested in centering the needs of youth and providing tools for adults to meet those needs by becoming askable adults? An askable adult is someone who is approachable and easy for children and teens to talk to about anything that is on their mind. In this episode, NSVRC’s Sally Laskey discusses Vermont’s Askable Adult prevention campaign with Chani Waterhouse and Amy Torchia from the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, along with the project evaluator Rebecca Gurney. Learn how research informed their process, the components of the campaign, and how they evaluated their program.

For more information and transcripts visit www.nsvrc.org/podcasts. 

Sex Ed: The Truth About Pornography

In the 4th episode of our Sex Ed series, NSVRC’s Jen Grove builds on the conversation in the second episode in our Sex Ed series, "Sex Ed: Teaching Porn Literacy," about the research on porn literacy and development of The Truth About Pornography curriculum. In this episode, Jen talks with Nicole Daley and Jess Alder, who facilitate the curriculum as part of the Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships Initiative at the Boston Public Health Commission. Listen as they share their experiences working and collaborating with young people on this important topic. 

For more information and transcripts visit www.nsvrc.org/podcasts. 

Designing Environments to Prevent Sexual Violence

Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED, or “situational prevention”) is an established criminological theory that has recently found a new life in sexual violence prevention. How can CPTED concepts be used to change the physical environment of an area to help prevent sexual violence? 

In this episode, we explore how a coalition in  Kansas City, Kansas is designing environments with the goal of preventing sexual assault. Listen as NSVRC’s Sally Laskey talks with Vanessa Crawford Aragon, Community Prevention Coordinator from the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault and Dr. Natabhona Mabachi, an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, about their goals, partners, and how the project is evolving during COVID-19.

Want to learn more about creating protective environments? Listen to episode #10.

For more information and transcripts visit www.nsvrc.org/podcasts. 

Connecting Communities to Prevent Sexual Violence

In this episode, NSVRC’s Prevention Team talks about the importance of community connectedness. Community-level prevention work moves us beyond individual approaches – it’s about collective action, building partnerships, and creating access to resources to support community health. Listen as they discuss ways that communities are mobilizing to prevent violence.

For more information and transcripts visit www.nsvrc.org/podcasts. 

Sex Ed: Teaching Sexual Health During a Pandemic

In the third episode of our Sex Ed series, NSVRC’s Mo Lewis talks with Kari Kesler, one of the lead authors of the FLASH curriculum, about the ways FLASH focuses on sexual violence prevention, the important ways sexual health education can be adapted during this pandemic, and results from their recent evaluation. Listen as they discuss the connection between this classroom-based sexual health education curriculum and preventing sexual violence.

For more information and transcripts visit www.nsvrc.org/podcasts. 

Sex Ed: Teaching Porn Literacy

In the second episode of our Sex Ed series, NSVRC’s Jen Grove talks with Boston University School of Public Health professor Dr. Emily Rothman about what it means to be porn literate and how we can help young people think critically about what the research says about pornography. Listen as they discuss the connection between porn literacy and preventing sexual and dating violence. 

For show notes, transcripts, and more information visit www.nsvrc.org/podcasts. 

• More about porn literacy and The Truth About Pornography: A Pornography-Literacy Curriculum for High School Students Designed to Reduce Sexual and Dating Violence
• How Porn Changes the Way Teens Think About Sex – a TED Talk by Dr. Emily Rothman
• Event: The Truth About Pornography curriculum online training, December 4, 2020
• Sex Ed: Curricula, Critical Thinking, and Using Technology to Teach Sexuality Education
  
  

A Conversation with the Creators of Green Dot Community

Back in Episode 2, we talked about Green Dot Community, a program that depends on the power of bystanders to prevent violence. In this episode, NSVRC’s Sally Laskey and Jennifer Benner dig deeper into everything the program offers in a conversation with Melissa Emmal of Alteristic, the organization that created Green Dot Community.

Sex Ed: Curricula, Critical thinking, and Using Technology to Teach Sexuality Education

NSVRC’s Evaluation Coordinator Sally Laskey talks with sexuality educator Dr. Elizabeth Schroeder about using technology and social media to teach healthy sexuality and why it's so critical for sex ed to be comprehensive and inclusive of gender identity, sexual orientation, and more. They also discuss Rights, Respect, Responsibility — the first-ever K-12 sex ed curriculum that fully meets the National Sexuality Education Standards.