“Imagining the Solution” is the e-newsletter for the Tauiwi Prevention Project of TOAH-NNEST. It focuses on primary prevention strategies, activities and programmes to help build communities free of sexual violence.

Imagining the Solution NSAC 2013

• Covers the Calcasa 2013 National Sexual Assault Conference (NSAC) in Los Angeles, California.  The theme of NSAC 2013 was “Inspire a Movement; Invest in Change; Imagine…..”

Imagining the Solution July 2013

• The latest from the Tauiwi Prevention Project
• Pink Loves Consent at FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture
• The latest “Wrap” from The Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault (ACSSA)
• Congratulations to the family violence prevention It’s not OK Campaign team, winners of the Prime Minister’s Award at the annual Public Sector Excellence Awards for a second time.

Imagining the Solution May 2013

• Release of the primary prevention stocktake results
• National Rape Crisis and Rape Awareness Week
• New Zealand Disability Strategy summarised
• Preventing sexual violence in queer* communities
• Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2013

Imagining the Solution February 2013

• ECPAT, Netsafe, People First and Pacific Pathways to Prevention
• Don’t be that guy campaign from Edmonton, Canada
• Prevent Connect’s child sexual abuse prevention webinar series
• Circle of 6 mobile phone app

Imagining the Solution November 2012

• Full coverage of the Tauiwi and Bicultural stream of Whai ki te Ara Tika Imagining the Solution, the first national sexual violence primary prevention hui in Aotearoa New Zealand
• Launch of the Imagining the Solution Facebook page

Imagining the Solution September 2012

• Desire, negotiation and consent – sex positive approaches
• White Ribbon Men’s Hui
• Disability and Child Sexual Abuse
• RAASC, Shakti and Rainbow Youth

Imagining the Solution July 2012

• Preventing child sexual abuse, CAPS Hauraki and Right2BSafe
• Preventing sexual violence in hospitality environments with RPE and WSAN
• Rape Crisis Scotland’s approaches to social change
• Mentors in Violence Prevention’s Bystander Intervention Conference
• Scarleteen and consent

Imagining the Solution April 2012

• Sex n Respect website for young people
• Healthy Relationships resources from Kidpower Fullpower Teenpower Trust
• Tell Someone resource from the Health and Disability Commission
• Flirting is not Consent campaign
• Links between homophobic bullying and sexual violence

Imagining the Solution Feb 2012

• Who Are You? ethical bystanding campaign
• National Rape Crisis SAVE programme
• Wellington Hollaback
• Book review – What You Really, Really Want