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Prevention conference: 11 October 2018

Violence against Women and Girls: Leadership for Prevention

** Now fully booked **

At Zero Tolerance our vision is of a world free of violence against women and we work to achieve this through primary prevention - challenging the social attitudes and structures which permit this violence to occur. On 11 October Zero Tolerance will bring together leaders, professionals and policy-makers across a range of sectors to explore primary prevention at a one day conference.

With presentations, workshops and discussions, this event will be a unique opportunity to meet leaders and change makers, hear from experienced professionals and discuss opportunities for embedding, or further embedding, primary prevention into your work.

Date: Thursday 11 October

Location: Easter Road Stadium, 12 Albion Pl, Edinburgh EH7 5QG

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Agenda

9:00 – 9:30 Registration

9:30 – 9:50 Rachel Adamson, Zero Tolerance: Welcome and Introduction

9:50 – 10:10 Christina McKelvie, MSP: Prevention and Parliament

10:10 – 10:40 Emma Ritch, Engender: Policy and Practice with a gender lens

10:40 – 11:15 Break for tea and coffee, networking, and a chance to view the Violence Unseen exhibition.

11:15 – 12:00 First round of workshops

1. Leading Whole Schools Approach: Education as Engagement with Equality by Rape Crisis Scotland and Zero Tolerance
2. What about the men?: Involving men in prevention work by White Ribbon Scotland
3. Preventing sexism and misogyny in Muslim and BME communities by Amina

12:15 Presentations on two pilot projects:

• Catriona Kirkpatrick, Engender: Disabled Women - Our Bodies Our Rights
• Susie Heywood, Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership: Gender Friendly Nurseries

12:45 – 13:45 Lunch, networking, and a chance to view the Violence Unseen exhibition.

13:45 – 14:15 Sharing and Building the evidence:

• Perceptions of violence in the media – new research by Zero Tolerance
• Learnings from past prevention campaigns – presentation by Rape Crisis Scotland

14:15 – 14:45 Presentation from Rape Crisis on learnings from previous prevention campaigns

14:45 - Short break and time to get into second round of workshops

1. What about the men?: Involving men in prevention work by White Ribbon Scotland (repeated)
2. Intersections of violence against women and violence against LGBT people facilitator by LGBT Youth
3. Sugar and spice and all things sexist: Working with the early years to challenge gender stereotyping by Zero Tolerance

15:45 – Rachel Adamson, Zero Tolerance: Closing remarks

16:00 - Day end