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• February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month! Join ODVN in observing the first recognized Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. Click Here for additional information on free resources, activity ideas and a special opportunity to support ODVN initiatives

• Connecting the Dots: A Newsletter from ODVN's Prevention Team
• Click Here to view our newsletter about HB 19.
• For more information about HB 19 from the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) Click Here.

• “Is Anybody Listening?”: Advocacy with Survivors who are deaf and using TTY’s to Communicate

  This free half-day training will focus on working with survivors who are deaf or hearing-impaired. Participants will learn about deaf culture and how abusers can manipulate a survivor’s hearing impairment using the deaf power and control wheel. Participants will also learn how to access interpreters and practice using the TTY machine to effectively communicate with survivors who are deaf or hearing impaired. Free TTY machines are available to all ODVN member programs who do not currently have one!

  Four trainings will be held on the following dates:

  • March 15, 2010- Columbus
  • March 16, 2010- Kent

  For more information, contact Krystal Preston at krystalp@odvn.org or 614-781-9651 ext. 226.

• Free Regional Prevention Forums: Registration is now open online for Free Regional Prevention Forums hosted in partnership with local domestic violence programs. For more information and to register please Click Here.

• Pathways in Prevention: A Roadmap for Change

• Everyone has a role: We invite you to identify where your contribution to a safe and violence free Ohio can be made. Drawing upon the rich diversity of Ohio’s population that includes culture, ethnicity, race, religion, age, socio-economic status, ability, sexual orientation, gender and gender identity, each of us has a role in bringing to reality the vision of this plan. The elimination of gender inequality and other systemic oppression are an integral part of sexual and intimate partner violence prevention work. Our ultimate goal is to achieve human rights and social justice for all Ohioans. Our task requires that Ohio’s plan challenges the flawed social norms and raises the consciousness to achieve this vision of social justice and human rights. The authors of and contributors to this plan invite you to accept this as a call to individual and collective action. We invite you to read this plan, its goals, outcomes and actions and become involved with our efforts at the local, organizational, and/or state levels.
  • Click Here to view the Executive Summary of Pathways in Prevention: A Roadmap for Change.
• Click Here to visit the Prevention section of our web site, to learn more about this exciting project, and view Pathways in Prevention: A Roadmap for Change in its entirety.

• Global Issues Resource Center and Library at Cuyahoga Community College is partnering with colleges and universities, and local, national, and international non-governmental and governmental organizations to host the 3rd International Conference on Conflict Resolution Education (CRE), Building Infrastructures for Change: Innovations in Conflict Resolution Education (CRE) and Justice Initiatives to be held March 26-27, 2010 (Pre-Conference March 24-25) in Cleveland, Ohio. (Details are available at: http://creducation.org/cre/goto/3rd).

• Ohio Domestic Violence Network Training Institute Brochure
  • Click Here: One-page glance at trainings scheduled through June 2010
  • Click Here: Download entire TI brochure (1/2010-6/2010)

• Click Here for a referral list of shelter programs around Ohio.

• Click Here for Ohio Domestic Violence Statistics.

The Ohio Domestic Violence Network was founded in 1988 by a coalition of programs in Ohio which serve battered women and their children. The Network organized out of the need to provide coordinated services to improve public understanding of domestic violence. In 1989 the Ohio Domestic Violence Network was incorporated as a nonprofit membership organization.