Our missionThe Violence Prevention Program is a sub-team under Monsoon Asian and Pacific Islanders in Solidarity. Monsoon provides direct services, community outreach and education, and violence prevention to victims and survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse in Asian and API communities in Iowa.
"To end all forms of gender-based violence."
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Monsoon's Violence Prevention Program is guided by community change strategies such as mass mobilization, social action, public advocacy, empowerment theory, and participating action research. The program focuses on API youths from middle and high schools in central Iowa. Youth are vital to the movement to end gender-based violence and the best source to tap into for the prevention of sexual violence.
A Youth-Led Prevention Program.
This program piloted in 2008, and since then, numerous youths from high schools around Des Moines have joined. They take up roles such as interns, peer-to-peer advocates, volunteers, and participants. Through internships, in-school and after-school programs, and community education events, there has been an increase in awareness about sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. In-school and after-school programs focused on analyzing culture, histories of oppression, forms of violence, and violence prevention in API communities. Youth interns at Monsoon have also attended national conferences and made presentations as well as received training.
A Youth-Led Prevention Program.
This program piloted in 2008, and since then, numerous youths from high schools around Des Moines have joined. They take up roles such as interns, peer-to-peer advocates, volunteers, and participants. Through internships, in-school and after-school programs, and community education events, there has been an increase in awareness about sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. In-school and after-school programs focused on analyzing culture, histories of oppression, forms of violence, and violence prevention in API communities. Youth interns at Monsoon have also attended national conferences and made presentations as well as received training.