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Three Ways Your Company Can Address Sexual Assault This Month
All employees can benefit from a workplace that demonstrates a commitment to addressing and preventing sexual violence. Taking time in this April, which is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, to directly address this issue can be incredibly meaningful to your employees and have a positive impact on your workplace culture. Small actions can make a big difference; in this blog we offer three simple strategies your company can engage in this month.
The Hard Truth
The last few weeks, we’ve been talking and writing a lot about accountability. At JT Consulting we believe accountability is violence prevention. But accountability work isn’t just something we do for others. We have to start with ourselves.
Risk vs. Reward: What Prevents us from Preventing Gender-based Violence?
I challenge all of us to think about the ways we can actively confront attitudes and beliefs that permit violence to occur to so many people. How do we play a role in shifting our company or community norms to silently condoning imbalances of power and gender-based violence to a community that loudly and emphatically condemns it? How do we create communities- or perhaps even a world- where people are held accountable with compassion and survivors are believed and supported.