Peace Over Violence invites you to

GEAR UP FOR DENIM DAY

We are launching Sexual Assault Awareness Month, celebrating 25 YEARS of Denim Day impact, and acknowledging 25 Champions for Change!

Thursday, March 28th
5—7pm | Program 6pm

POV Metro Office
1541 Wilshire Blvd. 3rd Floor
Los Anheles, CA 90017

Appetizers and Refreshments
Denim Day Archival Display

Paid parking available
ASL Interpreted

Denim Day is a project of Peace Over Violence

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We Protect Each Other

2nd Annual Denim Day Virtual Survivor Rally

Presented by
Peace Over Violence & Denim Day NYC

Hosted by
Maya Jupiter & Aloe Blacc

It’s been a year since COVID-19 transformed our lives in nearly every way, everywhere, as entire cities and countries issued shelter-in-place orders restricting our social interactions to contain the spread of the virus. When doors closed and isolation began, reports of violence against women, femmes, girls, and those who exist outside of the binary, particularly intimate partner violence, began to rise.

Join us on Wednesday, April 28th at 2pm PT/5pm ET for our 2nd Annual Virtual Survivor Rally. Stand in solidarity with survivors and one another to shine a light on the need for funding, essential services, prevention and research to transform our responses and interventions to sexual violence by listening to testimonies from survivors.

Tune in on the POV Youtube Channel:
https://youtu.be/-yywnB_BNgA

Young people are valued members of our society that are often overlooked or not considered when discussing violence prevention. According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 1 in 9 female and 1 in 36 male high school students report experiencing sexual assault within the last year. We know that numbers only tell a small piece of the full story, so we must center young voices and engage together to build safe, healthy, equitable and loving communities.

The examples we set for young people shape the way they think about gender, respect and human rights. This panel will be a conversation between local elected officials, Los Angeles' Executive Task Force on Youth Development and youth leaders from Los Angeles. They will discuss the steps taken to create the city’s first youth development department and the role violence prevention efforts must play in the future of our city. Join us!

Denim Day envisions a world in which all youth can pursue their human right to lives free from violence and harassment. Girls, boys, trans youth, and those who exist outside of the binary all deserve liberation and to live in a world without violence.

Violence is preventable.
If we can learn it, we can unlearn it.
Violence is not healthy for people and other living things.
If we can see it, we can stop it.
Silence is violence.
If we can talk about it, we can change it.

POV YOUTUBE CHANNEL LINK:
https://youtu.be/tt3fK0O5Qig

POV YOUTUBE CHANNEL BITLY:
bit.ly/heartheyouth

Reimagining Healing & Justice

April 14 at 3:00PM PT/6:00PM ET
POV’s YouTube Channel
ASL Interpreted

Panelists

Ericka Dixon, NYC Anti-Violence Project
Patti Giggans, Peace Over Violence
Heima Sritharan, Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
Tinisch Hollins, Californians for Safety and Justice

Moderator

Sanjana Nidugondi, NYC Anti-Violence Project

Communities at large are dedicating time and resources to explore and build alternatives to police and prisons, evolving what we define as justice and centering the experience of marginalized communities impacted by state sponsored violence.

This conversation aims to discuss divestment - pulling resources away from policing and prisons - and also investment - redirecting the majority of the massive police, prison, and military budgets at every level of domestic and sexual violence intervention and prevention programs to proven and transformative alternatives that increase safety and healing. This includes accessible comprehensive physical and mental healthcare, sexual abuse and sexual violence education and prevention, housing programs that help people stay in their homes and acquire safe housing, drug and alcohol programs that support the wellness of individuals instead of criminalizing behavior, economic systems that protect and prioritize survivors, and reproductive care for people across the spectrum of their lives and their choices about building families, just to name a few. 

Centering Young People in the Fight to End Sexual Violence

IG Live @peaceovrviolnce and @denimdaynyc
April 7, 2021 - 3:00pm PT/6:00 pm EST

Young people are valued members of our society that are often overlooked or not considered when discussing the fight against rape culture. According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 1 in 9 female and 1 in 36 male high school students report experiencing sexual assault within the last year. We know that numbers only tell a small piece of the full story, so we must center young voices and engage together. 

The examples we set for young people shape the way they think about gender, respect and human rights. This Instagram LIVE will be an organic bicoastal conversation between four youth from New York City and Los Angeles. They will chat about consent, bodily autonomy, relationships and accountability. We invite you to join us to listen to what they have to say about their experiences. 

Denim Day envisions a world in which all youth can pursue their human right to lives free from violence and harassment. Girls, boys, trans youth, and those who exist outside of the binary all deserve liberation and to live in a world without violence.

Violence is preventable.
If we can learn it, we can unlearn it.
Violence is not healthy for people and other living things.
If we can see it, we can stop it.
Silence is violence.
If we can talk about it, we can change it.

Peace Over Violence is hosting a free taxation clinic in collaboration with Latino Resource Organization. Anyone who meets the eligibility criteria may sign up. This event is by appointment only and screening is required.

Eligibility Criteria:

• Must live in LA County

• Earn no more than $55,000 per year.

Please bring:

• California I.D. or Consular I.D.

• Social security card or ITIN Card

For more information, contact the POV Legal Department at (626) 584-6191

Parents, friends, family, and supporters of our youth are invited to join us in celebrating the outstanding graduates of the 2019 Youth Over Violence Leadership Institute. The graduates will present the results of their internships and share their experiences in the program. Come witness proactivity and positivity in action! 

RSVP today to rashad@peaceoverviolence.org

Parking is available in the school parking lot and nearby metered street parking. 

KID'S EMPOWERMENT SELF-DEFENSE AND SAFETY
Session for kids ages 5-8 is 9:30AM to 10:15AM
Session for kids ages 9-12 is 10:30AM to 11:15AM

Parents can’t always be there when their children face danger. Safe kids are safety smart. They trust their instincts, think on their feet and don’t hesitate to protect themselves. There are ways to train children to be safety smart. Peace Over Violence’s Kids’ Empowerment Self-Defense and Safety provides children with an opportunity to develop critical thinking skills, respect their instincts and cultivate assertiveness.

The program focuses on three components, incorporating age-appropriate role-plays which encourage children take action on their own behalf. Statistics and awareness exercises help children to understand that, while being prepared is important, most people would never hurt a child. Assertiveness exercises and conflict resolution skill building exercises increase the child’s ability to prevent abuse by adults, older children, or peers, and physical techniques build self-esteem and decrease fear.

YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SELF-DEFENSE AND SAFETY
Session for girls ages 13-17 is 12:30PM to 1:15PM

Participants will learn how to be more assertive; how to resolve conflict; to have healthy relationships; and how to execute some physical self-defense techniques. We also offer to communities in and around Los Angeles County, a program that involves youth, working with and empowering other youth, to help prevent violence throughout their communities. Peace Over Violence’s Youth Self Defense and Safety program brings youth leaders, together with adult instructors, to offer Self Defense and Safety training, youth relationship violence prevention education, and mentoring opportunities to youth and youth programs throughout our communities.

Please RSVP