Our Winter 2016 Newsletter
Posted on January 25, 2017 with 0 Comments
We are keeping our finger on the pulse of violence prevention issues…...
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Punishment’s Hidden Lessons
Posted on July 12, 2016 with 0 Comments
Children who were punished experience reverberations in later life....
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Anger Management 101
Posted on June 30, 2016 with 0 Comments
Before you lose it with your kids, learn ways to dial back the escalating emotions....
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What Do You See When I Say Abuse?
Posted on May 22, 2016 with 0 Comments
Domestic violence encompasses more than battery. Sexual violence encompasses more than rape. It's time to see all the forms that abuse can take....
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Ad Exec Joe Baratelli Joins Picture Alternatives Board
Posted on July 13, 2014 with 0 Comments
by Holly Bridges, executive director, July 13, 2014 We’re excited to welcome Joe Baratelli, executive vice president and chief creative officer at RPA, as the newest member of our Board of Directors. RPA is one of the largest independent advertising agencies in the country. Throughout his stellar 27 years with the company, Joe has helped ...
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Picture Alternatives Wins Three More Nat’l Awards
Posted on April 29, 2014 with 0 Comments
By Holly Bridges, executive director We garnered three prestigious 2014 Communicator Awards, including the highest Award of Excellence in the category of online videos by a nonprofit organization. Winners were announced by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts in New York on April 29. With over 6,000 entries received from across the US and ...
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Picture Alternatives Wins National PSA Contest
Posted on September 6, 2013 with 0 Comments
Our 60-second public service announcement about teen-dating violence won first place in a nationwide competition held by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Announced on September 6, the first-place spot in our category (Violence Prevention Professionals) went to “The Two Sides,” where a young woman’s light side and dark side dialogue about dating ...
Read MoreCounterintuitive Campaign Reduces School Violence
Posted on July 24, 2013 with 0 Comments
In a desperately poor, dangerous part of town, one school ditches metal detectors and steel bars with brilliant results. Violence dropped by 90%. The police predicted chaos, but they underestimated these students. Read the article . . ....
Read MoreThe more violence, the less revolution
Posted on April 24, 2013 with 0 Comments
by George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence, March 6, 2012 In the discussion within the Occupy movement on whether violence is necessary for making change in the United States, the debate has so far conflated three of the movement’s possible goals. Are we talking about using violence to produce regime change? Or do we really mean “regime ...
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Child Abuse Expert Weighs in on Belting Video
Posted on June 12, 2012 with 0 Comments
Astrid Heger, M.D., executive director of the Violence Intervention Program in Los Angeles, offers her observations on the controversial videotape of a stepfather beating a child with a belt for dropping a baseball in a game of catch. Interviewed by Larry Mantle on KPCC-FM. (For audio interview, fast-forward to 10:30 on the time counter.) You ...
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