2012 Annual Report--Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance Published August 2013 | Page 8

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DO YOU: Building Youth Assets through Creative Expression
After 3 years in development, we piloted our new “Do You” dating violence prevention campaign with teens ages 13-16. Pilot data show promising results for our campaign goals: • Developing greater empathy; • Learning to model fairness and equality; • Feeling valued by one’s community; • Learning media literacy tools to critically analyze and deconstruct messaging related to strict gender roles; • Learning about the four components to healthy sexuality; • Practicing respectful communication skills. We can’t wait to put the finishing touches on this campaign and launch it to the world in 2014!

of our most exciting achievements in 2012

ction Alliance staff and members work every day to strengthen survivor services, public policy, public awareness, prevention, and partnerships. It is no easy task to pare down all of this meaningful work to a top 10 list. These highlighted projects reflect the tireless efforts of our many volunteers, supporters, and brilliant staff. We are grateful for all you do to make the Action Alliance Virginia’s leading voice on sexual and domestic violence.

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Advancing Racial Justice
We developed and delivered a 2-day Dismantling Racism training curriculum to examine how to address and prevent sexual and intimate partner violence through a racial justice lens and trained our Governing Body as well! We included racial justice in our agency mission. Our membership established a new Racial Justice Task Force to promote racial justice work among local programs.

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Project Connect Partnership: Reproductive Coercion Screening
We worked with the Virginia Department of Health and several local Sexual & Domestic Violence Agencies to pilot a new screening and assessment tool to help identify and provide resources to victims of intimate partner violence who have experienced sexual coercion. Four local agencies acted as pilot sites to test the new screening and assessment tools. Post-training data shows providers are more prepared to screen for coercion and patients feel safer and more supported.

2012 ANNUAL REPORT

VIRGINIA SEXUAL & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION ALLIANCE

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