Men Rally For Change

03/21/2014

This is similar to our Game Changers initiative promoting respect and healthy relationships through youth sports. Interested in helping promote respect to youth in your community? Contact [email protected].

I’d like to make the case make for intentional mentoring in all youth settings, but I’ll start with a an example from youth sports. The National Council on Youth Sports (NCYS, 2008) estimates that more than 35 million youth between 8 and 19 participate in some form of youth sports each year, represe...

09/18/2013

A poignant new ad from Guinness flips the switch by presenting a group of athletic, beer-drinking men who are defined as much by their kindness as their physical strength.

A new ad for Guinness positions the product as the beer for men of kindness and character.

09/17/2013

Great message on how sports can create a respectful and positive culture. Our Game Changers program in Austin, Texas seeks to build respectful, nonviolent relationships through sports. Contact us if you want to know more or get your kids involved!

Videos: Dartmouth College "When we strip down to being who we are as people...that's when the trust begins." One of the oldest establishments of higher learning in the United States, Dartmouth College has been educating since 1769, and it becomes one of the first to join You Can Play in promoting eq...

09/17/2013

Respect challenge

09/16/2013

It takes everyone to end violence against women.

When you have the "avoid getting r***d" conversation with your daughter, it is difficult, as you don't want to imagine her as a victim. The idea of having the "don't r**e" conversation with your son is more difficult as you don't ever want to imagine him as a perpetrator. Do it anyway.

09/12/2013

The media sensation of this event may have subsided but the opportunity to talk to your children never does.

If you have ears, you've heard Robin Thicke's hit "Blurred Lines." If you've had any amount of spare time in the past few days and have access to the internets, you've heard about Thicke's performa...

08/27/2013

Game Changers, a project of SafePlace and the Men Rally for Change intiative, spent an evening at the Round Rock Express game last week talking with fans about the program. Thanks to everyone who stopped and the Round Rock Express for hosting us! For info about Game Changers email [email protected].

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08/27/2013

So what does back-to-schol mean for children exposed to Domestic Violence?

What does the back-to-school season have to do with domestic violence and child welfare? A lot. We know that child abuse reports increase during the school year, especially in the fall at the beginning of the year.

08/20/2013

08/15/2013

“We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody’s.”
—Kifah Shah

08/14/2013

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/are-you-a-slut-shamer-the_b_1093045.html

I'm not saying girls should be "like boys" (whatever that means) or that I think promiscuity is a good thing. I'm saying there should be the same standard of behavior for both sexes.