Gender-based Violence Prevention

WISE is an advocate against all forms of violence against women, including intimate partner violence, dating violence, and domestic violence. While we do not provide direct services to victims, we are dedicated to sharing the knowledge and tools to bring awareness to violence against women and to prevent it from being replicated across generations.

 

WISE works with immigrant and refugee women and girls in our Healthy Relationships program to learn how to identify unhealthy relationships and how to utilize safe strategies to intervene when you see dating violence and sexual assault. We believe that by educating our young people on prevention and awareness strategies, we can take a substantial step towards putting an end to violence against women. Prevention strategies include:

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• Education on gender norms, gender roles and societal impacts

• Adopting and practicing bystander intervention methods

• Identifying signs of an unhealthy relationship

• Creating and sharing multi-lingual resources (i.e. programs, learning tools, events, etc.)