January 28,2011
UNI Launches WIVP-Supported Violence Prevention Education Program |
October 27, 2010
Community Organizers Target Bullying Concerns with Symposium |
October 16, 2010
ABC's 20/20 Features Lee Hirsh and WIVP-supported Documentary |
October 4, 2010
CNN: A Year-Long Look at Bullying |
April 6, 2010
USA Today features WIVP-sponsored Workplace Bullying Initiative at Sioux City Community School District |
February 28, 2010
Gloria Steinem hosts fundraiser for WIVP-sponsored film, "Private Violence" |
January, 2010
WIVP Supports "The Bully Project: A Year in the life of America's bullying crisis" |
July 14, 2009
Violence Prevention Project Draws National Attention |
June 17, 2009
Siouxland Campaign Targets Teen Dating Violence and Bullying |
June 5, 2008
United Way and Waitt Institute Partner Against Violence |
May 5, 2008
Sioux City Bandits and WIVP Partner on Charity Golf Event |
April 10, 2008
West High School to Feature Nationally Known Workplace Bullying Expert |
March 17,, 2008
Waitt Institute Vice President Judy Stafford Named to Governor's Commission on the Status of Women |
March 14, 2008
Healthy Relationships (NBC) |
March 14,
2008
Students Act to Prevent Violence (Sioux City Journal) |
November 16,
2007
Waitt Institute Honors Boykin |
November,
2007
M.L. Carr and Coaching Boys
to Men comes to Sioux City |
September 28,
2007
WIVP, World Bullying Institute and Zogby Team to Release Study on Workplace Bullying |
July
1, 2007
Renewed Awareness Campaign
by Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention and the Family
Violence Prevention Fund |
March
8, 2007
Iowa Governor Chet Culver
Signs Legislation Requiring State School Districts to
Adopt Stringent Anti-bullying Policies |
March
2, 2007
Author James Howe to Speak
in Sioux City about his book, The Misfits. Howe was
sponsored in part by the Waitt Institute for Violence
Prevention. |
November
16, 2006
Jackson Katz and Alan Heisterkamp
are Recipients of the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention's
Lighting the Way Award |
July
15, 2006
New Awareness Billboards
Promoted by Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention and
the Family Violence Prevention Fund |
June
19, 2006
Founding
Fathers Sign Campaign Ad That Ran in the New York Times |
June
19, 2006
Sioux City Journal Reports
on the Siouxland Men's Coalition Against Family Violence |
June
15, 2006
Sunshing
Lady Foundation and the Waitt Institute for Violence
Prevention Support Groundbreaking Film -- "
Private Violence: the Movement Against Battering in
America” is a two-hour feature documentary about
the history and contemporary face of domestic violence
and the inspiring, extraordinary people who fight against
its corrosive influence. |
June
15, 2006
The Siouxland
Men's Coalition Against Family Violence in partnership
with the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention, are
celebrating this Father’s Day week by announcing
a four- year, research- based public education violence
prevention campaign in Sioux City. The objective of
the campaign is to increase the numbers of adults in Sioux
City who are talking to their children about violence,
with a particular emphasis at this time on men talking
to boys. A program for girls will be implemented at a
later date. |
April,
2006
Waitt
Institute for Violence Prevention, Family Violence Prevention
Fund, and M.L. Carr's WARM2KIDS Partner to Distribute
50,000 additional "Coaching Boys into Men"
Playbooks Nationwide. |
March,
2006
Waitt Institute for
Violence Prevention Ramps Up School-based and Community-wide
Violence Prevention Campaign. The Sioux City School
System and the communiyt of Sioux City will implement
on-going violence prevention programs in all middle
and high schools. |
March
14, 2006
"Private Violence"
-- 21-minute Film Preview Completed with Assistance
from Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention. A
short preview of an expected feature film will be used
to help raise additional funds to bring this to a national
audience. |
January,
2006
Waitt Institute for Violence
Prevention, FVPF and Ad Council Sponsor National Public
Service Announcement. The new ad is entitled, "Father
and Son." |
June
14, 2005
Bold Approach to Preventing
Family and Community Violence -- Gateway founder
and former Chairman Ted Waitt today announced the creation
of the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention, an unprecedented
new operating foundation dedicated to reducing family
and community violence. By focusing significant resources
and expertise on violence prevention in one community,
the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention will develop
a model that others around the country and the world
can replicate. |
March
18, 2005
Family Violence Prevention
Fund's Men's Campaign is Changing Behavior -- The
Coaching Boys Into Men campaign, response from the public
has been overwhelming – the campaign not only
breaks through the clutter, but is changing behavior. |
June
1, 2004
Waitt Family
Foundation Underwrites Founding Fathers Campaign to Mobilize
Men to Take Stand Against Domestic Violence |
May
5, 2004
Men Take Stand to Prevent Violence
Against Women and Children -- Briefing with Senator
Joseph Biden (D-DE) and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) |
May
5, 2004
Siouxland Men's Campaign Against Violence Kicks Off. |
December,
2003
Waitt Family Foundation Donates
$100,000 to Support Becky's House -- a San Diego shelter
for abused women sponsored by the YWCA of San Diego.
|
September
17, 2003
Waitt Family Foundation
Supports 2-1-1 Call Center -- To offer easy access to
services in Sioux City area. |
