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Coaching Boys into Men - a Proven Strategy to Prevent Violence

By RaymondBrandes.

North America : Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Futures Without Violence (formerly known as Family Violence Prevention Fund) shared a feature story on their website (www.futureswithoutviolence.org/content/features/detail/2487 ) that a study published online in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that their programme Coaching Boys into Men (CBIM) is proven effective to reduce abusive behaviors among male athletes who have participated in the programme.

Link to the attached Study: http://www.ajpmonline.org/webfiles/images/journals/amepre/AMEPRE_3795-stamped-043013.pdf

The Randomized Controlled Trial of Coaching Boys into Men conducted from 2009-2011 had a 12-month follow-up to examine the longer-term effectiveness of the programme meant to prevent dating violence targeting high school male...

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Boys and men must be included in the conversation on equality

Posted by RaymondBrandes | 21.03.2012 | Often branded hazardous or hopeless, boys and men are part of the development equation and can help tackle gender equality. Girls are cool. Girls can save the world. Girls can – according to the colourful stickers produced by the Nike Foundation – pull off miracles... | [read more]

Boys and men must be included in the conversation on equality

Posted by xiano | 21.03.2012 | An article by Andrea Cornwall, arguing that men and boys are part of the development equation and can help tackle gender inequality. See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/mar/21... Girls are cool. Girls can save the world. Girls can... | [read more]

Ground-breaking Research on Gender Based Violence in Pakistan

Posted by RaymondBrandes | 29.02.2012 | In March 2012 Rutgers WPF will present the research report ‘Gender Based Violence in Pakistan’. This is an ground-breaking study: never before have Pakistani women been approached directly and asked to be interviewed individually. Ground-breaking The Rutgers WPF... | [read more]

Training Afghani Imams to End Violence Against Women

Posted by RaymondBrandes | 21.02.2012 | Daisy Khan, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, and Fazeela Siddiqui, WISE Program Manager, write in the Huffington Post about the Imam Training Program, a collaborative program that works to end violence against women in Afghanistan... | [read more]

Happy Valentine’s Day: Real Men Don’t Abuse Women

Posted by RaymondBrandes | 14.02.2012 | If Valentine’s Day is to celebrate passion and romance, let us pause for a moment to think beyond the commercialism of glib cards and gifts and reflect for a moment on a darker side of passion, love and sex; namely, sexual and gender-based violence. Whilst essential... | [read more]

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