Early Childhood Educators Curricula

http://www.barcc.org/information/educators/ece

The Future is in our Past: Report from Ending Child Sexual Abuse web conference

http://preventconnect.org/2012/05/the-future-is-in-our-past-report-from-ending-child-sexual-abuse-web-conference/

New national plan to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation

http://preventconnect.org/2012/03/new-national-plan-to-prevent-child-sexual-abuse-and-exploitation/

In the News

Senate judiciary committee endorses controversial contraceptive bill
http://www.statepress.com/2012/03/12/senate-judiciary-committee-endorses-controversial-contraceptive-bill/

How Can We Help Kids Define What Is and Isn’t Healthy Sexuality?
http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/03/i_had_one_of_my.html

Film Reveals “The Invisible War” on Women in Our Military
http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/01/film_reveals_the_invisible_war_on_women_in_our_military.html

Anti-Abortion Bill Could Tax Rape Victims
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/kansas-abortion-bill-sales-tax_n_1327301.html?ref=womens-health

Building Your Self Care Toolbox: Feldenkrais clinic for parents and teachers

Low-Cost Feldenkrais® Community Clinic hosted by Project Commotion

Offering 1-on-1 Functional Integration® (FI) lessons to members of our community. This service is targeted towards parents, caretakers, mothers-to-be, and teachers of young children.

Summer clinic hours: Tuesdays, June 7 through July 26

Times: 12:15pm and 1:15pm. Sessions generally run 40 minutes – 1 hour.

Sliding scale fee $5 - $40. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Location: Project Commotion, 2095 Harrison Street at the corner of 17^th Street, San Francisco.

Please call 415-252-8059 or email susan@projectcommotion.org to schedule an appointment.

Please wear comfortable clothing that allows you to move and bring a pair of socks!

The Feldenkrais Method® is a mind-body approach to learning, developing awareness, and discovering comfort and fluidity through movement. FI sessions are hands-on individual lessons that use gentle, guided touch and verbal instruction to explore movement, reveal habits, and discover new possibilities and choices that can help you:

• Increase body awareness, comfort, mobility, balance, and flexibility. • Relieve stress. • Improve sleep and breathing. • Reduce pain from injury or repetitive stress. • Address challenges that can result from neurological conditions, chronic pain, arthritis, and other conditions.

This clinic is made possible by Project Commotion and a group of Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioners^CM from the Institute for the Study of Somatic Education San Francisco IV training.

Project Commotion (PC) is a community space where children, families and educators are invited to learn and grow together through movement, sensory experiences, and play. We aim to impact the community through our work by offering free or low-cost services to children and families in financial need.

PC offers classes that incorporate movement, tumbling, music, play, dance, and martial arts as a means of fostering healthy development, self-awareness and self-expression. Private, semi-private and small group classes are available for children, and community workshops are offered for adults. PC serves as a foundation of support and information for parents, educators, and other professionals working with children, by providing seminars, workshops, and hands-on experiences in movement. By increasing the level of awareness throughout our community, Project Commotion brings about a vital change in the way that adults can support children's learning and development.

Please contact us if you have questions.

Project Commotion 2095 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Ph 415-252-8059 Fx 415-252-9829 www.projectcommotion.org

Training: Revolutionary Youth Media Education

RYME- Revolutionary Youth Media Education for youth 12-19 years old.

The RYME program includes radio, video and on-line journalism (blog) production as well as poetry, performance and theatre, organizing and consciousness on poverty, racism, migration, police brutality and liberation

All classes are taught bi-lingually and include lunch

Full scholarship and stipends offerred to low-income youth.

Program begins June 7th-Space is limited. Registration deadline is May 15th.

Applications can be downloaded here: http://www.poormagazine.org/node/3854

For more information contact us by email at deeandtny@poormagazine.org

Article: Get An Education, Get Sexually Harassed

A 14-year-old female honor roll student is being forced to choose between her education or her safety as a result of school district budget cuts. The Twin River Unified School District has decided to discontinue its school bus service that picks students up at predetermined locations and takes them to their local high schools. Without the bus service, the young girl must leave home at 6:30 a.m. — usually before sunrise — to walk approximately 2.4 miles to get to school by 7:30 a.m. On several occasions men have stopped while driving their cars to proposition the young girl regarding sexual acts. Some of these men proceeded to follow her for several blocks hurling insults at her because she ignored and rejected their advances.

Read More Here: http://calcasa.org/calcasa/get-an-education-get-sexually-harassed/

Resource Spotlight: Oakland Sister Circle Zine

Check out this great local resource!

oaklandsistercircle.org

Here is the link to the "normal" version: http://www.swashdesign.com/SHARE/dropbox/OSCv1-draft20100622.pdf
Here is the link to the version that you would print to make a booklet: http://www.swashdesign.com/SHARE/dropbox/OSCv1-draft20100622-booklet.pdf

Youth Roots! Oakland State of Mind

Film: Beyondmedia Education - Doin' It: Sex, Disability and Videotape

The Empowered Fe Fes, a peer group of young women aged 16 to 24 with different disabilities, strike again with their second video production, an insightful investigation into the truths about sex and disability. In the video, the Fe Fes educate themselves about sex from many angles by talking with activists and scholars. The viewer tags along on a date between a woman with a disability and her able-bodied boyfriend, exploring relationship issues of dating with a disability over a candle-lit dinner. To purchase the full version visit our website www.beyondmedia.org.

Article: Teenager Forced to Apologize to Her Church for Being Raped

http://womensrights.change.org/blog/view/teenager_forced_to_apologize_to_her_church_for_being_raped

Preventing sexual abuse in youth sports

"Two Seattle Times staff reports wrote an article titled Coaches Who Prey, in which 159 coaches in the state of Washington have been fired or reprimanded for sexual misconduct ranging from harassment to rape. At least 98 of those coaches continued to coach or teach somewhere else."

http://calcasa.org/calcasa/preventing-sexual-abuse-in-youth-sports/

Mama said Knock YOU Out

This is a parol from the womyn's contingent of the 2009 parol festival, San Francisco, CA.

Mama said Knock YOU Out A Mixed-Race Indigenous (Pacific Islander) woman's journey of chasing the "American" Dream and the lies that come with it... sadya maalam

http://www.poormagazine.org/index.cfm?L1=news&category=35&story=2464

Article: American Apparel Hits Rock “Bottom”

American Apparel has such a history of sexist ad campaigns that we’ve often wondered if their marketing team is made up of teenage boys lacking creativity and common sense. But their latest endeavor takes the cake. American Apparel is looking for the best bottom in the world to be the "face" of their new ad campaign. They're inviting girls to upload pictures of their butts to the website (wearing AA underwear or body suits, of course) and then asking people to judge the submissions with a score of 1-5 and the option to add snarky comments. It’s low budget and lowbrow. For girls, however, it’s high stakes.

Read More here:
http://hghw.blogspot.com/2010/02/american-apparel-hits-rock-bottom.html

Article: When Partner Abuse Leads to Pregnancy

When Partner Abuse Leads to Pregnancy
Men Who Abuse Their Partners Often Sabotage Birth Control, New Research Suggests

In some abusive relationships, men may use strategies to force women to become pregnant, including sabotaging their birth control, researchers say.
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Nearly 20 percent of women at family clinics across northern California reported that their partner tried to coerce them into having a child, sometimes using methods such as poking holes in condoms or flushing birth control pills down the toilet, Dr. Elizabeth Miller of the University of California Davis and colleagues reported online in the journal Contraception.

"It was stunning to have this many women seeking reproductive health services saying, 'this has happened to me,'" lead study author Miller said. She added that the reasons men would want their partners to bear children vary "from things like wanting to leave a legacy, to a straightforward desire for attachment, to having absolute control over her body... There are all of these elements to it."

Read More Here:

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/domestic-abuse-abusive-men-sabotage-birth-control/story?id=9639340&page=1

Article: Captured by the Clueless

Last week, the Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report that revealed about 12 percent of youths nationwide held in state-run, privately run or local facilities reported some type of sexual victimization including forced sexual activity with other youth and staff. Staff sexual misconduct was higher in state-run facilities.

It was the first report of its kind by the Justice Department, and the prevalence of sexual abuse by staff, particularly female workers, shocked even advocates. At our offices, we drew a deep breath and acknowledged the report as an addition to a growing list of reminders that incarcerating youth - the majority of whom are locked up for nonviolent offenses - is expensive, unproductive and harmful.

Read More Here.

Article: Shaniya's Shame

The murder of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis highlights a disturbing and growing trend in the U.S.: the trafficking of young girls into sexual slavery.

• By: Malika Saada Saar

Read More Here

The Exploitation of Sexual Victimization for Political Agendas

Powerful statement regarding the sexual assault in Richmond that has been in the news.

http://www.sfwar.org/pdf/SexualVictimizationPoliticalAgendas.pdf

Multi-Racial Mamaz against criminalization of our migrant youth

PNN-TV
Multi-Racial Mamaz against criminalization of our migrant youth
A cross cultural, cross-generational press conference and speak-out by mamaz against the recent rejection of the due process legislation for migrant youth (our children) by Mayor Newsom.

Watch the two parts of the videos on PNN-TV:
Part One
Part Two

Women of Color Resource Center Hosts Forum on Richmond Tragedy

Greetings folks,

This is an invitation to both attend and support an upcoming forum on Monday night of next week- 6:30-9:30 pm- at the Women of Color Resource Center in Oakland. We are hosting an open-forum to discuss, make meaning of, and strategize about solutions to address the protections of women, youth, and community members following the tragic rape of a young woman in Richmond last week. We are working to get a facilitator who will join us from a community-based non-violent communication organization which specializes in advocacy for women and girls.

The facilitator comes at a cost of $400 for the evening and we are trying to pull together the funds quickly to be able to hold space for a very important community matter.

Can you please spread the word to friends and colleagues letting them know about this forum, and our need for their urgent support to make sure that the session happens?

Please contact me for more information or if you are able to contribute something. Every little bit will help. The space will be youth friendly as well.

Anisha

Anisha Desai
Executive Director
Women of Color Resource Center
415/515/3816