Nov 14, 2014
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Strong Oak Lefevre from the New England Learning Center for Women in Transition describes the community-based prevention work of Visioning Bear Circle to prevent sexual violence in Native American communities. This program was featured in the 2011 report Innovations in Prevention from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
About: Recording of an interview with Strong Oak Lefevre who operates a culturally sensitive sexual violence prevention program for Native American communities in Western Massachusetts. Major components of the BEAR Circle program are the program is community-driven with consensus decision-making, community outreach, use of storytelling as a primary prevention technique that targets several generations (toddlers through elders), training community members so they can in turn train the community, and with a focus on healing for EVERYONE involved with sexual violence (including perpetrators) so everyone can stay in the community if possible to prevent rifts within the community. Application for INENAS Project: The BEAR Circle program is an excellent learning tool for us to use when developing our program. We could model our program after this one but tweak it so it is representative of tribal communities in our service area.