Courage is Contagious
The Giants are dedicated to promoting healthy relationships, preventing violence and supporting survivors of Violence.
The problem is real.
At least one of every three women globally will be beaten, raped or otherwise abused during her lifetime.
Women ages 20 to 24 are at the greatest risk of experiencing nonfatal intimate partner violence.
15.5 million children in the United States live in families in which partner violence occurred at least once in the past year.
The problem is real in the baseball community.
Mickey Callaway Omar Vizquel Jared Porter Sam Dyson Domingo German Julio Urias Odubel Herrera Addison Russell Roberto Osuna Brandon Taubman Jose Torres Steven Wright Derek Norris Jeurys Familia Hector Olivera Jose Reyes Aroldis Chapman Trevor Bauer Marcell Ozuna
*Examples since 2016
What can you do?
Recommended Videos
“Locker Room Talk”-Alexis Jones(TedTalk), Masculinity and Rape Culture, Consent is Like Tea (Espanol), Boys Won’t Be Boys-Ben Hurst(TedTalk), What it’s like to be Cyberbullied as Sexual Assault Survivor.
Recommended Content & Articles
Forms of abuse, Red flags of abuse, FAQs about domestic violence, 10 tips to have an informed conversation about domestic violence, Technology Safety/Privacy - a toolkit for survivors, Financial abuse, Financial abuse toolkit (Espanol), Student Action Guide to Stop Sexual Assaults in School, FAQs on Title IX, Dan Harmen Sexual Harassment Apology (18-30min mark)
Recommended Movie
AUDRIE & DAISY is an urgent real-life drama that examines the ripple effects on families, friends, schools and communities when two underage young women find that sexual assault crimes against them have been caught on camera. It takes a hard look at American’s teenagers who are coming of age in this new world of social media bullying, spun wildly out of control. World premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
https://www.audrieanddaisy.com/ is an extremely well done resource guide for watching the film as a family or in a group setting. There are additional resources for educators, professionals, and coaches. Note from director: “Talking to survivors, their families, and their communities, we found hope amid the disturbing epidemic of sexual violence. We want to create conversation around this issue and explore some potential paths towards change.”
Quote from Daisey: “….the words of my enemies aren’t as awful as the silence of our friends.” Survivors need us to listen, support and stand with them.
Recommended Book & Speaker
Peggy Orenstein is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Waiting for Daisy and Boys & Sex. Peggy sits down with the Armchair Expert to discuss her research in talking to young boys, why parents need to be open with their kids about sexual realities and the impact of pornography. Dax asks how boys can stand up to injustice without losing their social capital and Peggy talks about the uncoupling of pleasure and sex. The two talk about the double standards that exist in the way we perceive young males and young females, how gay communities navigate sex and the misconceptions boys and girls hold about the opposite gender.
Leading Organizations Making a Difference
Love is Respect (English) & El Amor Es Respeto (En Espanol) engages, educate and empower young people to prevent and end abusive relationships. Highly-trained peer advocates offer support, information and advocacy to young people, concerned friends, family, counselors, teachers, law enforcement and other professionals who have questions or concerns about their dating relationships. Free and confidential phone, live chat and texting services are available 24/7/365.
Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN Espanol) is the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800-656-4673) in partnership with more than 1,000 local sexual assault service providers across the country.
ProtectHer believes that in order to safeguard the dorm rooms, we first need to activate the power and influence of the locker rooms. There is no better way to do that than by positive storytelling highlighting the incredible guys doing it RIGHT.
Futures Without Violence provides groundbreaking programs, resources, trainings, toolkits, policies, and campaigns that empower individuals and organizations working to end violence against women and children around the world.
Coaching Boys Into Men in example of one of Futures innovative programs, where middle school and high school coaches teach young mail athletes healthy relationship skills and that violence never equals strength.
National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) provides state-by-state information about domestic and sexual violence coalitions, action networks and laws (Espanol). They address the complex causes and far-reaching consequences of domestic violence through cross-sector collaborations at the state, national, and international levels with an ultimate goal of changing the way our society addresses and works to prevent domestic violence.
What the Giants are doing?
Strike Out Violence Day - Working closely with our community partners for over 20 years, the Giants continue to host an annual Strike Out the Violence day at the ballpark with a goal to bringing awareness and raise resources for organizations supporting survivors and ending violence. Additionally through the Junior Giants we have developed a Strike Out Violence speaker program and Strike Out Bullying Program.
Leading As Giants: As a development partner with Futures Without Violence, we have created a discussion based curriculum for minor league players to process what it means to truly respect someone and provide non-violent strategies to work through relationship issues. Our 2021 pilot program, consisted of 12 Giants staff led discussions with two minor league teams during the season.