Growing Prevention Community Chats

Cost: FREE | When: various dates, March-April | Location: Virtual (Zoom)

Overview: Our Hot Beverage Chats are BACK! These FREE community convenings were so popular in 2023, we've brought them back for another round! As April is Sexual Assault Action Month (SAAM) and Child Abuse Prevention Month (CAPM), the Oregon Sexual Assault Task Force (Oregon SATF) and Prevent Child Abuse Oregon (PCAO) are co-hosting this FREE short learning series to explore creative, overlapping, and innovative violence and abuse prevention efforts throughout Oregon!


Join Oregon SATF and PCAO with your beverage of choice or lunch, and explore new strategies, linkages, and community efforts to prevent abuse and violence across the lifespan. These hour-long chats, throughout March and April, are an opportunity to hear from folks doing work that helps prevent violence and abuse, connect with other people around Oregon working to make our communities healthier and safer for all people, and collect more resources.

Learn with us, share your ideas, and help grow violence and abuse prevention throughout Oregon. 


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*COST: In an effort to ensure that this training, events, and prevention generally, is accessible to people throughout Oregon, we are committed to reducing barriers to prevention, because we all play a role in ending violence and abuse. For this reason we utilize a sliding scale cost model. While there is no minimum cost to access this specific training opportunity, as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, any payment contribution that you are able to make helps us continue to create and provide high quality, widely available content for our shared community of preventionists, advocates, and allied partners. If you are interested and able to contribute for this training, you may do so here: https://donorbox.org/satf-prevention-training.

This series of community chats is offered in collaboration with our partners at

2024 Schedule of events

  • Tuesday, March 5th from 12-1: Prevention and Play

    • Explore how moments of play can be used to help youth & adults learn and practice skills related to healthy relationships and violence prevention.

  • Tuesday, March 19th from 12-1: Prevention and Recreation

    • Explore how access to green spaces, nature, and activities can provide connection, community, education, and belonging.

  • Thursday, April 4th from 12-1: Prevention and Substance Misuse/Suicide Prevention

    • Explore how these other major prevention efforts in our communities impact violence and abuse prevention efforts.

  • Thursday, April 18th from 12-1: Prevention and Music/Art

    • Explore the role music and art can play across the life span in prevention, soothing, healing, connection!

For questions about this event, please reach out to SATF Prevention Coordinator, Meg Foster, at megan@oregonsatf.org; or SATF Training Coordinator, Haley Gates, at training@oregonsatf.org.