MEGA (Making Equal Genders Awesome) - Youth of all gender identities are invited to talk about race and gender equity through games, art, discussions, and activities.

Healthy masculinity and social emotional learning are integral to MEGA. To learn more, click here.

Hear Us (We Are All Connected for Youth) - As part of the We Are All Connected approach to community-level prevention, Men As Peacemakers worked with local middle and high school students to conduct a 4-part dialogue about community-connectedness. By fostering a space for shared learning and exploration, student participants shared their perspectives on four key principles:

Inherent Dignity and Belonging

Collective Care

Responsibility to One Another

Wholeness

Youth insights were incorporated into a resource for teachers, parents, youth workers, and students themselves to deepen their own connections to one another, and to explore what it means to say “We Are All Connected.”

“Hear Us” includes an online Facilitator Training and a print or digital Practice Guide. To learn more, click here.

BEST (BEST = Be Equal, Safe, and Trustworthy)- The BEST Party Model is an innovative environment-shaping program designed to empower students with the awareness, relationships, and skills necessary to shape the campus environments they occupy and influence. This 8-week program targets high risk environments for sexual violence, engaging student leaders and other influential student groups (athletic teams, Greek houses, clubs and associations) in community-building and making grassroots, student-driven changes to campus life and culture. BEST also supports school administrators, coaches, and staff in implementing proven prevention models in order to create the safe, equitable, and fulfilling campus experience all students want and deserve. To learn more, click here.

BEST - The BEST Party Model is an innovative environment-shaping program designed to empower students with the awareness, relationships, and skills necessary to shape the campus environments they occupy and influence. This 8-week program targets high risk environments for sexual violence, engaging student leaders and other influential student groups (athletic teams, Greek houses, clubs and associations) in community-building and making grassroots, student-driven changes to campus life and culture. BEST also supports school administrators, coaches, and staff in implementing proven prevention models in order to create the safe, equitable, and fulfilling campus experience all students want and deserve. To learn more, click here.

BEST Campus Institute - The BEST Campus Prevention Institute is a 5-Part Virtual Series that combines live presentations, interviews, and panel discussions with opportunities to interact with the content, engage the presenters, and receive personalized recommendations for creating and implementing a campus sexual violence prevention plan using BEST tools and strategies. To learn more, click here.

BEST Campus Inventory - To learn more, click here.

DVRC (Domestic Violence Restorative Circles) - The DVRC Program serves people who have used and survived domestic violence. Its primary purpose is to help communities recover from harm, prevent new violence, transform out of dominant norms that enable violence, and thrive. Like all MAP programs, the DVRC Program is based in the belief that people connected to communities are more likely to flourish, treat themselves and each other with care, and respond humanely to anyone who causes or survives harm. To learn more, click here.

BEST BARS (BEST = Be Equal, Safe, and Trustworthy) is a popular community powered process for engaging young professionals and emerging college students in shaping bar and party environments to reflect values of respect, gender equity, human dignity, and safety. BEST utilizes best practice public health models of primary prevention which assess and transform environments for sexual violence prevention. BEST provides bars and patrons with the necessary resources to create and maintain bar environments that promote respect for women and prevent sexual violence. To learn more, click here.

Don’t Buy It Project - We Are All Connected: Creating Exit Ramps from Sex Trafficking into Safety and Healing" is a practice tool created as part of the Don’t Buy It Project (DBIP), a program of Men As Peacemakers (MAP) aimed at engaging men and masculine folks in the prevention of sex trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitation. To learn more, click here.

Don’t Buy It Project - Latinx Communities - "We Are Community: We Belong - We Have a Role - We Are Not Alone" is a culturally specific practice tool for the Latinx community that was created as part of The Don’t Buy It Project (DBIP), a program of Men As Peacemakers (MAP), in partnership with Esperanza United (EU). It is aimed at engaging men and masculine folks in Latinx communities in the prevention of sex trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, and other forms of gender-based violence. To learn more, click here.

Men and Masculine Folks Network - A hub where men and masculine folks from diverse communities and organizations across Minnesota are connected and moving towards a collective goal of ending gender-based violence. To learn more, click here.

The We Are All Connected Project - A project providing practical tools, resources, and trainings, to help organizations, agencies, and systems make community-connectedness an organizational practice. To learn more, click here.

Community Ecosystems Training Series - Building off Deepa Iyer’s Social Change Ecosystem Work, this video series invites viewers to understand communities as ecosystems of which they, too, are a part.Within the community ecosystem, everyone has a role to play in the prevention of all forms of sexual violence. To learn more, click here.

Community Connectedness and the Prevention of Sex Trafficking - A video series was created by the North Dakota Council on Abused Women’s Services (NDCAWS) in partnership with the North Dakota Human Trafficking Task Force (NDHTTF) and Men As Peacemakers (MAP) as part of the VOCA regionalization grant; Empowering Providers to Empower Survivors, funded through the Office for Victims of Crime. To learn more, click here.

Community-level Primary Prevention Report and Toolkit - A community narrative based report and toolkit highlighting the expertise and experiences of MDH Injury and Violence Prevention grantees and other community-based prevention organizations across the state. To learn more, click here.