Young Women's Support Group: Join Shawn Harris and Talcott Broadhead as they facilitate this 6 week support group for young, homeless or street dependent women who are survivors of sexual violence and young women who are interested in violence prevention. Group begins Tuesday, January 6th from 4:00 - 5:00 pm in the Goldburg Room at Community Youth Services. Snacks provided!
Youth Group Meetings: Our Violence
Prevention Educator is planning on hosting a series of weekly meetings to find out what participants would like to focus on next. A project? An on-going weekly discussion group? Participants
identify topics of interest related to the prevention of sexual
assault, domestic violence and child abuse. Past projects have included
the development of Public Service Announcements for radio and
television, a zine and an informational booklet on the Washington State
Rape Laws (due to be released this winter). Click here to view our most recent project! To find out when and where we are meeting, check out our Calendar or contact us at 360-357-4472 or
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Recent Events
Open House!
We are excited to announce that Partners in Prevention Education is
planning to host an Open House and you're invited! This will be a great
opportunity to see our new offices, met the staff, board and youth
participants. We're still trying to figure out the details and date, so
please check back for more information. Or if you'd like to receive an
e-mail reminder contact us at
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Alternative Gift Fair, December 6th, 2008 ~ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm At the Olympia Center. Thanks to your generous contributions during last year's Gift Fair, we raised nearly $500 at this annual event
designed to provide an opportunity for community members to shop for
holiday or seasonal gifts which are intangible: gifts of a donation
made to a non-profit local, national or international organization.
This year PiPE's table will be staffed by our both members of our Board and staff. We look forward to the
opprotunity to meet donors and provide more information about Partners
in Prevention Education, our services and how your donations support
local youth and young adults affected by sexual assault, domestic
violence and/or child abuse.
Click on the Calendar tab for a complete listing of up-coming events!
Event Planning Meeting: Calling all local youth and young adults!!!!
PiPE organized an Event Planning
meeting on September 9th to find out what youth would like to do. Want to
have a dance? Organize a haunted house? Plan a field trip to somewhere
special? We'd like to support you in making your event a reality.
Domestic Violence Awareness Presentation to Stonewall Youth: November 28th, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm. This presentation addressed the continuum of behaviors that constitute domestic violence, the legal definition of domestic violence in Washington State and the statistical prevalence of D.V. among both the "straight" and "queer" communities. PiPE and Stonewall Youth also have plans to develop training for the Olympia Police Department on Responding to Domestic Violence among Same Gender Couples.
Thurston County Domestic Violence / Sexual Assault Training Summit: As a member of the Thurston County Domestic Violence / Sexual Assault Taskforce, Partners in Prevention Education worked with the Thurston County Prosecutor's Office, Adult Protective Services, Law Enforcement and other local service providers to organize this event. With over 90 local service providers and emergency responders, this event was a huge success! Utilizing video, theater, power point presentations and a town hall discussion, this interactive training followed one composite family's experience from the initial disclosure of adolescent sexual abuse, the subsequent eruption of domestic violence, and through out their process of accessing services for both the victims and perpetrator. Training evaluations overwhelmingly indicated participants increased their understanding of the various roles of those who respond to incidents of both domestic violence and sexual assault in Thurston County! The town hall and evaluations also indicated a strong desire among service providers to refocus future trainings and public education on the prevention of these forms of violence.
Olympia Police Department Oral Interview Panel: August 9th & 10th. Partners in Prevention Education staff member Rosalinda Noriega joined four OPD personnel and Davy Long (Safeplace) to sit on the panel to interview new applicants for the Olympia Police Department. This was an exciting opprotunity to get to know potential new officers in our community! We look forward to seeing the new officers in our community. Click here to view the letter received from Cmd Nelson, Olympia Police Department following the interview process.
Night Owls March in the Procession of the Species This year Partners in Prevention Education hosted mask-making workshops for youth, young adults and youth advocates to make owl masks. Participants marched as Night Owls to silently bridge a connection between our right to freedom from violence and our love for the environment and our community. Click here to view a picture from one of the workshops held at Rosie's Place Resource Center at CYS.
In-Service Training for Olympia Police Department
This two-hour training introduces law enforcement officers to the causes and consequences of youth homelessness; identifies the impact and correlations between sexual violence and homelessness; and identifies appropriate community resources available to street-dependent youth and young adults.
Homelessness: Choice or Chance? Free Workshop at the Evergreen State College. February 8, 2007 4:00 - 6:00 pm in Seminar II, Building C, Room 1107
Ever wonder why there are so many homeless youth and adults roaming the streets of our community? In this presentation participants will be introduced to the concept of "street culture", learn tools for culturally appropriate outreach, and identify strategies for becoming allies to individuals affected by homelessness. Participants will learn about the reasons both youth and adults end up on the streets, including the connections between homophobia, sexual abuse, domestic violence and homelessness.
Sponsored by Student Groups at the Evergreen State College including: WashPRIG, Carnival, EPIC, VOX, Women's Resource Center, PAC, and the Evergreen InfoShoppe.
Presentation to the Washington Women Lawyers Organization, a brief introductory presentation to local attorney's interested in offering PRO-BONO legal assistance to street-dependent youth and young adults.
Glad Tidings We Bring Holiday Concert Series, performed by the Olympia Choral Society and the Olympia Youth Chorus at the North Thurston Performing Arts Center, December 8, 9, and 10. The show was a huge success with hundreds in attendance. Donations raised at this event benefit totalled $5,000. To learn more about OCS visit thier website by clicking here .
Donut Dialogue, a series of weekly meetings between Olympia Police Department and Street-dependent youth aimed at incresing communication and understanding between these two groups, while decreasing misperceptions. These meetings were organized by Ameri-Corps Volunteer, Johanna Culter, who has since enlisted PiPE staff to facilitate these discussions. For more information, visit our calendar for upcoming meeting dates.
Community Planning Meeting on September 20, 2006
5 - 6:30 pm at Rosie's Place
We began to formulate a media awareness campaign aimed at huminizing the face of homelessness. This is one of many strategies identified at the Dream the Dream forum as one step in ending homelessness in our community. In order to prevent homelessness, we must first understand what leads to homelessness and rally our community to get involved! If you would like to learn, to share, and to continue to dream the dream of ending homelessness in our community, please
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for the next meeting times and location!
Best Practices in Addressing Domestic Violence: A Coordinated Response Conference
September 29th, 2006 (Tumwater, WA)
PiPE staff presented, "Understanding Why OUR Youth are on the streets" This event was sponsored by the Thurston County Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Taskforce, Thurston County Presecuting Attorney's Office, Thurston County Sheriff's Office, State Farm Insurance, Safeplace, Washington State Office of Crime Victim Advocacy, and the Washington State Crime Victim Compensation Program. Workshop attendants included representatives from local sexual and domestic violence programs, juvinile justice, law enforcement, child protective services and many more! If you'd like more information on available presentations, please
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us.
Latino Youth Summit
at Saint Martin College
Friday, October 13, 2006
This annual event is open to high school students in Grays Harbor, Mason, Lewis, and Thurston Counties. www.hispanicroundtable.org/LYS.htm
Recent Screening of "Downtowners"
October 26, 2006 Presented to the Olympia Police Department Volunteers and Downtown Ambassadors.
August 30, 2006 Presented to the Washington State Attorney General's Office, as a part of the Diversity Training Series
March 22, 2006 at YES YES Alliance Creative Healing Space for those Affected by Violence as part of the Creative Intervention Festival. This space provided community members who've been affected by violence, to design a t-shirt to contribute to the kick-off of the Downtown Oly Clothesline Project. For more information about the Clothesline Project visit their website.
The premier of "Downtowners" & Community Forum at the Capital Theater, January 13, 2006 . For more information about this event click on: Documentary Video tab at the top of this page. October 5-7, 2005The Partners in Prevention Education presented at the "Building Healthy Futures: Tools to Prevent Sexual Assault and Domestic/Dating Violence" conference hosted by the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance in Richmond, VA. For more information go to: http://www.vsdvalliance.org July 9th, 2005Fundraiser for Rosie's Place Drop-In Center"Voices of Reason: Exploring Youth Homelessness and Sexual Violence"Despite some techincal set backs, the show must go on!Thankfully we live in a supportive, resourceful, & well connected community.
Much appreciation to The Voyer Resturant for lending us the use of their theater space & projector when our projector over-heated. And thanks to the Midnight Sun for loaning us their chairs!!!!! We had over 30 people in attendence to watch the documentary and stay for the Q&A session that followed.
May 17, 2005.
Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs (WCSAP) Annual Conference in Bellevue, WA.
Several youth and community partners involved in the Partners in Prevention Leadership Team and Speaker's Bureau be presented "Perspectives of Stakeholders and Allies". In this workshop, participants examined the importance of identifying community characeristics in creating sexual violence prevention strategies. Footage from the S.A.Y.M. documentary video was also presented, followed by a question & answer session.
May 18, 2005.
Survivors' Art Show
The Evergreen State College
5 p.m. Documentary Film Showing
It was estimated that nearly 200 people filed through the Art Show!
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