Small Moments in the Community
I Am Not Defined By
Albion Fellows Bacon Center believes that everyone deserves healthy and respectful relationships. We accomplish this through our primary prevention initiatives by addressing root causes of violence, building skills, promoting healthy relationships, and shifting cultures to promote respect. By encouraging and building safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments, we can prevent all forms of violence and build a thriving community to live, work and play.
Albion Fellows Bacon Center’s prevention program is strategically focused working on initiatives to build connectedness based on findings from past community needs assessments. We are working to build a community where everyone feels safe, seen, heard, supported, significant, and cared for. One of our efforts included producing a video that explores how labels both support and limit how we connect with one another.
Contact:
Sophia Blaha, MSW
Primary Prevention Coordinator
Albion Fellows Bacon Center
P.O. Box 3164
Evansville, IN 47731
812-422-9372
This video is the product of a focus group facilitated by our prevention team with local college students to discuss what norms they have seen that enable violence in their community. Through this discussion, a theme came to light; that labels placed on them from early on to present, have created excuses for violence. We wanted to craft the strong message that small moments, such as taking the time to get to know someone versus immediately labeling them, can have a large impact. If we uncouple these labels and assumptions, we can start to relate to people without judgement. We can then prevent harm by establishing respectful relationships and interactions as the expected norm in our families, organizations, and communities.
