Webinar July 8, 2021
Healthy Masculinity and Engaging Boys and Men
Most people have different ideas about what it means to be a man, and we develop these ideas from the many influences in our lives. Some are from people we know, others we see in the media. Some of them taught us positive lessons and others showed us what not to do. And just about everyone has received mixed messages about what makes up a “real” man. This workshop helps participants critically examine the messages they receive about masculinity and violence against women, highlight the positive messages and ultimately build skills to apply a strength-based approach to engaging boys and men in primary prevention through healthy masculinity.
Free for members / $25 for non-members
Participants will learn:
1. The connections between masculinity and violence against women and other forms of violence
2. How healthy masculinity can help all boys and men work toward preventing violence
3. How to overcome personal resistance and social messages that confine men
4. The ways other men have integrated healthy masculinity into their interactions with others
5. The connections between primary prevention and healthy masculinity.
All registrants will receive a recording of this webinar offering. Closed captions will be provided during the webinar. A transcript will be sent to all registrants afterwards.
SPEAKERS
Jeremy Hardy is a Training and Technical Assistance Manager for Men Can Stop Rape (MCSR) and joined the organization in 2017. In this role, Jeremy facilitates MCSR’s primary prevention trainings, workshops and projects as well as community conversations with professionals, students and community members both domestically and internationally. Jeremy also provides comprehensive federal technical assistance and prevention training to grantees and partners of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women Campus program and Children and Youth & Engaging Men program. Jeremy brings to MCSR and the Serving Our Youth teams experience as a former scholarship Student-Athlete with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Goucher College. Using his experience, he designs and creates new training content emphasizing social and emotional intelligence and mental health approaches to engaging boys and men. Jeremy also conducts and coordinates MCSR’s nationally recognized three-day Healthy Masculinity Training Institute, which is the nation’s most comprehensive healthy masculinity training for professionals from around the world.
Pat McGann, Ph.D. has been involved with Men Can Stop Rape since the organization’s inception in 1997. Pat oversees the licensing of Strength Media - Men Can Stop Rape's groundbreaking media initiative - which is widely recognized as the nation's best-designed and most effective public service advertising campaign of its kind. He brings 19 years of university teaching and 15 years of nonprofit experience to his position at Men Can Stop Rape (MCSR). As Director of Strategy & Planning, he creates effective long term and short term strategy and planning for current and future developments regarding gender-based violence prevention. In 2008 he co-authored a comprehensive Sexual Assault Prevention Strategy for U. S. Department of Defense, which is still used to coordinate Service Branches’ prevention efforts. As part of MCSR’s additional work with the military, he served as project director from 2009 – 2011 for the creation of two public service announcement (PSA) campaigns. Materials were distributed to U.S. military installations worldwide. Since 2006, he has overseen Strength Media, which houses MCSR's groundbreaking PSA campaigns – Where Do You Stand? and [YMOST] Young Men of Strength. The campaigns are widely recognized as the nation's best-designed and most effective public service advertising (PSA) sexual-assault-prevention outreach to young men. During the course of his 15 years with MCSR, he has presented at conferences throughout the country on the theory and practice that drive the work of the organization and has conducted hundreds of workshops and trainings with youth and youth-serving professionals. His presentations include such highlights as the National Sexual Assault Conference, the Texas Crime Victims Services Conference, the University of Chicago, the University of Tennessee, the Army Sexual Assault Prevention Summit, and the National Guard Sexual Assault Prevention Summit. He currently serves on MTV’s A Thin Line Advisory Board and the Mobilizing Men for Violence Prevention (MMVP) Advisory Council. Dr. McGann’s Ph.D., from the University of Illinois at Chicago, is in Language, Literacy, and Rhetoric, and many of his publications address the politics of masculinity in connection with written language.