Mapping Prevention 2020 was a short-term participatory action research initiative based in Seattle, Washington. Led by anti-violence advocates, Mapping Prevention focused on identifying anti-racist and anti-oppressive approaches to domestic and sexual violence prevention. We interviewed 45+ local community organizers and preventionists about their strategies and identified resources to help expand this work on the ground.
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Conveners
The Coalition Ending Gender-based Violence (CEGV) is a member-based coalition founded in the early 1980s to organize responses to domestic and sexual violence in King Count. CEGV’s mission is to end gender-based violence and promote equitable relationships through collective action for social change, through policy advocacy, training and education, collaboration and service coordination, and mobilizing members and the community to work for lasting change. Since 2017, CEGV has dedicated a part-time staff position for its violence prevention and transformative justice efforts.
The Prevention Coalition (PrevCO) formed in 2010 to bring together prevention professionals and people interested in violence prevention working across sexual assault, domestic violence, sexual health, HIV/AIDS prevention, crime victims’ services, criminal justice, homeless youth services, public health, and government in King County for networking and peer education. Currently, PrevCO organizes as a learning cohort that comes together every summer to build connections, learn, and grow, and deepen practice in building more liberated communities. PrevCo uses anti-oppression frameworks and other best practices in the field to create spaces to learn from each other and share thoughts, ideas, and projects within the group. PrevCO provides a physical (and in 2020 virtual) space to practice cultivating joy, trying things out with an eyes toward moving closer to collective vision of liberation for all.