Today sexual and intimate partner violence prevention programs are so distinguished from advocacy and intervention, prevention is its own field and movement.

As prevention continues to grow and occupy its own space, a growing number of preventionists and advocates have started to ask at what point does our separation go from helping us, to potentially holding us back?" 

Different as we may be. we often have more in common than we realize. And it is in those commonalities that we find our through lines and our strength

For this episode of PreventConnect, we hear from two long-time friends in the anti-violence movement. Ashleigh Klein Jimenez. who you know as the other face of PreventConnect and Giovanna Martinez, Associate Director of Domestic Violence Programs at the YWCA San Gabriel Valley. Ashleigh and Gio could not be doing more different work, but their decades-long friendship and camaraderie goes back to their first jobs in the movement,  doing local community engagement and advocacy work in southern California.

We're exploring the role healing plays in primary prevention and the connections that often get lost in our movement, all through the lens of a long-lasting friendship. 

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2024: Heal, Hold and Center
DVAM 2024 Instagram Live: Honoring Advocates in our Lives
DVAM 2024 Linkedin Live: Creating Safe Spaces for Older Adult Survivors
Healing: A Key Piece to Preventing Domestic Violence for Future Generations
YWCA San Gabriel Valley
Housing and Prevention Podcast