Men As Peacemakers

Don't buy it project (dbip): dbip is a community-level primary prevention program that engages Men and people of all gender identities As active change agents to end the demand for all forms of commercial sexual exploitation and to create the conditions for all in the community to thrive. Dbip includes downloadable community education and awareness resources, online training videos, and a dbip curriculum with facilitator training for community programs who want to engage its members in learning about the root causes of trafficking and how to identify their own role in preventing exploitation. In 2023, dbip revised the curriculum and trained 15 dbip facilitators, and through the Men and masculine folks network (mmfn) to conduct 15 virtual male engagement sessions called kitchen table conversations that had a total of 601 views.

Domestic violence restorative circles: this program recruits and trains community members As reentry circle volunteers for repeat domestic violence offenders. Map has designed these circles with local domestic violence organizations to help increase victim safety and involve the community in creating greater accountability and potential for change for repeat domestic violence. This program connects the Men who cause harm to a community accountability system that recognizes their human dignity, but simultaneously demands that they act nonviolently and operate with genuine honesty. Separate from the offender track, this program also offers intensive one-on-one advocacy healing circles and wrap-around support for the survivors of the violence. In 2023, dvrc served 18 participants, 21 victim/survivors, and 23 dependents and engaged 12 volunteers for a total of 370 donated hours.

Making equal genders awesome program: an in-school community mentoring program for 4th-12th children and youth of all gender expression in five isd 709 schools. In the younger programming, the program connects caring adults in local elementary schools to help broaden their understanding of masculinity and to make better connections with themselves, their schools, and their community. These connections help them succeed both academically and socially, and support the development of boys into leaders in preventing violence and oppression. In 2023, mega served 388 students across 5 schools in the duluth school district.

Best campus sexual violence prevention program: best is an innovative and comprehensive approach to campus sexual violence prevention, which includes the best party model, an 8-week environment-shaping curriculum that goes beyond bystander intervention and engages students in prevention of sexual violence in the context of campus social settings, the best alternative response program for students accused of sexual violence, the best virtual campus institute, best first year orientation programming and events, and specialized training, technical assistance, and resources for staff and administrators. In 2023, best served 1980 participants, and conducted 2 best party model facilitator trainings, 2 best facilitator shadow programs, 2 statewide conference workshops, 1 ra training, 3 first year orientation sessions, 1 athlete session, 1 homegrown training, and 1 orientation leader session. Best also conducted alternative response educational sessions with 5 students. Maps we are all connected framework for prevention integrates each communitys unique practices around healing, wholeness, and thriving in order to increase the capacity of community-based programs, leaders, and core staff to sustain the important work of sexual and gender-based violence prevention. This category of programming includes local and statewide events and trainings specifically centering healing, wholeness, and thriving, and in 2023 reached213participants. Men and masculine folks network (mmfn): through collaboration with pheng thao,mmfn centers the leadership of Men from traditionally marginilized communities in statewide gender-based violence prevention efforts. Throuygh the mmfn statewide network, the mmfn summit, mmfn leadership institute, livestreamed "kitchen table conversations" with diverse panelists, and other tools and resources, this program strengthens connections and relationships among members, cultivates capacity and leadership, and creates opportunites for Men to envisiopn and play a role in the creation of communities free from gender-based violence. Mmnf operates in collaboration with, but autonomous from Men As Peacemakers' leadership structure. In 2022, mmnf connected with 11,575 participants through online meetigns and website activity. Other primary prevention youth restorative justice: serves juvenile offenders (all levels), family members and victims using the circle process to repair harm caused by crime and violence. Through the circle process, map strives to repair and foster the kind of connections a healthy community is built upon while holding juvenile offenders accountable and creating a safe space for people to heal and rebuild realtionships that have been broken. The programming focuses on the participant's connections to the community, repairing the harm they have done, and restoring them to a place where they feel energized to move forward in a way where their offense does not continue to follow them through the rest of their lives. In 2022, yrj served 125 participants through two 12-step sessions online for northern and southern st. louis county.