PreventConnect

Collaboration with youth-serving organizations is essential to prevention work.  The good news? A key prevention resource, Preventing and Responding to Child Sexual Abuse in Youth-Serving Organizations , has been newly updated!  Amber McKeen, Praesidium, Inc., and Maggie Ingram, Center for Violence Prevention Research, Two of the resource’s primary authors, sit down with host Ashleigh Klein-Jimene...

What happens when a rural elementary school starts reimagining accountability through connection, care, and community support instead of punishment? K-12 educator Jessica Harris joins PreventConnect to explore prevention efforts happening beyond traditional sexual intimate violence prevention spaces to share the story behind CLIMB -- Children Learning to Independently Manage Behavior. In part 2 of...

What happens when a rural elementary school starts reimagining accountability through connection, care, and community support instead of punishment? K-12 educator Jessica Harris joins PreventConnect to explore prevention efforts happening beyond traditional sexual intimate violence prevention spaces to share the story behind CLIMB - Children Learning to Independently Manage Behavior. In part 1 of...

Jayla Murdock and Mo Lewis from Respect Together sit down with PreventConnect to talk about Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM)! This year, SAAM is celebrating its official 25th year anniversary of being recognized during the month of April, and Respect Together is honoring it with their theme 25 Years Stronger: Looking Back, Moving Forward .   Listen in as Jayla, Mo, and Ashleigh talk about wha...

From new reports to web conferences, we’ve had a busy start to the year! Sit down with Ashleigh Klein-Jimenez as she shares what PreventConnect has been up to so far in 2026.  Listen to learn about our web conferences, blogs, and new resources we’re loving for preventionists to continue creating safer, healthier communities. 

Part 2 of our conversation with Community Leader Rebeca Melendez closes out our 20th Anniversary Season!  If you haven’t listened to Part 1, we highly recommend that you listen to the episode first to hear an excerpt from Rebeca’s plenary speech at the 2025 National Sexual Assault Conference®.  In Part 2, Rebeca sits down with Ashleigh Klein-Jimenez to talk about navigating belonging, finding comm...

In our second excerpt episode for our 20th Anniversary Season, Rebeca Melendez, Associate Director of the East Los Angeles Women’s Center (ELAWC), shares her plenary speech from the 2025 National Sexual Assault Conference® (NSAC)! Join the 1,600+ participants who attended NSAC 2025 and listen to Rebeca’s plenary on the importance of culture and working with and for your community to prevent violen...

Welcome to the 20th Anniversary of PreventConnect! Today’s episode is an excerpt from a not-yet-released conversation between VALOR’s Leah Aldridge and David S. Lee, and one of their mentors, Billie Weiss. Billie’s research, inclusion of community, and connecting violence prevention to public health are foundational parts of modern prevention practices. In these excerpts, Billie, Leah, and David d...

Welcome back to PreventConnect's 20th anniversary year and our ongoing reflection on Billie Weiss’s influence on public health and prevention. If you haven’t listened to Billie’s excerpts from a not-yet-released conversation with VALOR’s Leah Aldridge and David S. Lee, check out “Prevention Then and Now: Reflections from Long-Time Practitioners with Billie Weiss.” In this follow-up episode, Ashlei...

Welcome to the 20th Anniversary of PreventConnect!  In this episode, Josef Canaria, Preventionist and Manager of Programs & Strategic Initiatives at Act To Change, shares his 2025 National Sexual Assault Conference® (NSAC) keynote speech. Join the 1,600+ participants who attended NSAC 2025 and listen to Josef’s plenary on the messiness of prevention and the importance of community to end gende...

Welcome back to PreventConnect and episode 2 of Ashleigh and Josef Canaria discussing the messy nature of preventing gender-based violence.  If you haven’t listened to Part 1, we highly recommend that you listen to the episode first to hear Josef’s keynote speech from the 2025 National Sexual Assault Conference®.  In Part 2, Josef and Ashleigh reflect on Josef’s plenary and the hopes that preventi...

Welcome to the 20th Anniversary of PreventConnect!  Today, Ashleigh Klein-Jimenez sits down with Alex Pecoraro, the Prevention Strategist at the Nebraska Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence. Although Alex proclaims she is still “new,” she started her journey in prevention work as a peer educator in college, taking the skills and topics she learned into her local direct service advocacy a...

Welcome back to PreventConnect and Part 2 of Alex Pecoraro and Ashleigh sitting down to talk about prevention with a fresh perspective. If you haven’t listened to Part 1, we highly recommend that you listen to the episode first. Alex shares how she started learning prevention skills as a peer educator, and key differences between direct service and coalition-level prevention work.  In Part 2, Alex...

Welcome to Part 2 of Tonjie Reese sitting down with Ashleigh Klein-Jimenez for PreventConnect! If you haven’t listened to Part 1, we highly recommend that you listen to the episode first. Tonjie shared how she came to prevention as a high school student and the importance of meeting youth where they are to increase connections. Their conversation picks up with Tonjie sharing how their understandin...

Welcome to the 20th Anniversary of PreventConnect!  Today, Tonjie Reese sits down with PreventConnect’s Ashleigh Klein-Jimenez. Tonjie was drawn to harm prevention serendipitously through a theater class she enrolled in during high school and is now the founder of Eleven24, a program that provides training and education to decrease violence. Listen in as Tonjie and Ashleigh talk about how she came...

Welcome to the first episode celebrating 20 years of PreventConnect!  In this conversation, host Ashleigh Klein-Jimenez is joined by Jody Sanborn. Jody has been in the movement to prevent and end sexual violence for over 20 years. Currently, she is the Training and Technical Assistance Director with the Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, where she has been for the last...

Welcome to part two of Ashleigh Klein-Jimenez’s conversation with Jody Sanborn! If you haven’t listened to part one, we highly suggest listening to the episode first. Jody shared how she first stepped into prevention work, what keeps her committed, and what it takes to do prevention well in rural communities. This episode picks up the conversation with a focus on the Rape Prevention and Education...

PreventConnect turned 20 this year! That’s two decades of advancing prevention and working toward a world free from sexual and intimate partner violence -- together.  Join us as host Ashleigh Klein-Jimenez sits down with researchers, practitioners, and community leaders who are showing us what prevention looks like in action. Welcome to the 20th anniversary season of PreventConnect.

Dear Prevention Communtiy, We Love you. And we are so honored to do this work with you.  Sincerely, The PreventConnect team.