Several studies have provided promising evidence on the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of adapting programs for men and boys across ages and cultures. The Coaching Boys Into Men (CBIM) program was established in the United States and then adapted for India. Both programs have been evaluated and demonstrated significant impacts on bystander intentions and behaviors, as well as attitudes towards gender.
About the Program
The CBIM program recognizes that athletics and coaches play a unique and influential role in the lives of boys, rendering coaches uniquely positioned to impact positive attitudes and behaviors. The program provides coaches with resources to promote positive attitudes and behaviors among athletes and to help prevent abuse, harassment, and assault.
The CBIM curriculum consists of trainings that illustrate approaches to model respect and promote healthy relationships, and to integrate themes of teamwork, fair play, integrity, and respect into athletes’ day-to-day habits and choices.
A cluster-randomized evaluation sought to identify changes in attitudes toward and acceptance of gender inequality and intimate partner violence, changes in the prevalence of intimate partner violence, improvements in responses to women experiencing violence, and decreases in high-risk sexual behaviors.
Photo courtesy of Coaching Boys into Men/Futures Without Violence
The evaluation found that there was a clear shift in behaviors, with the experience and perpetration of physical intimate partner violence significantly decreasing in intervention communities.
Learn More:
This spotlight was pulled from “What Works to Prevent Sexual Violence Against Children,” a systematic review of proven solutions and best practices to prevent and respond to sexual violence against children and youth (SVAC). The review was completed in collaboration with a group of experts and allied organizations and highlights evidence-based solutions from around the world. Read the whole set of #SVSolutions Program Spotlights here.
Program Overview
- Program: Coaching Boys Into Men
- Organization: Futures Without Violence
- Strategy: Norms & Values
- Intervention Type: Working with men and boys to challenge stereotypes, toxic masculinity and norms that justify violence
- Ranking: This intervention is categorized as PROMISING
- Location: United States/India
- Age Group: Early and late adolescence
- Gender: All
Read More Solutions Spotlights
Back to school: COVID-19 and the opportunity to build safer learning environments
Back to school: COVID-19 and the opportunity to build safer learning environments Understanding the relationship between schools, violence and the pandemic By Chrissy Hart, Senior Advisor, Together for Girls Over the past several years, Together for Girls has conducted secondary analyses of the Violence Against Children & Youth Surveys to understand the prevalence, consequences, and [...]
Highlights from the Solutions Side Event – “Safe: Preventing Gender-Based Violence in and Through Schools”
Highlights from the Solutions Side Event - Safe: Preventing Gender-Based Violence in and Through Schools On June 17, Together for Girls and partners hosted a Solutions Summit side event, Safe: Preventing Gender-Based Violence in and Through Schools. The event was convened with UNGEI and Safe to Learn, in collaboration with Global Affairs Canada, USAID, the [...]
VidaNyx: Accelerating Child Abuse Prevention, Healing, and Justice
VidaNyx: Accelerating Child Abuse Prevention, Healing, and Justice By Natalie Brown, Communications Officer, Together for Girls VidaNyx is the leading cloud-based Digital Video Evidence Management solution that works to address the needs of the Child Advocacy Centers in the U.S. that help over 700,000 children survivors of abuse and neglect every year. Together for Girls [...]
SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER AND UPDATES
