You are a family member

As family members, brothers, uncles, grandfathers, or father figures, you have the ability to positively influence your younger male family members.  Promoting gender equality and teaching the young boys in your life about healthy equal relationships helps you do your part in building healthy families and strengthening family bonds.

Other Resources

Youth Education and Action Kit
In-class lessons with school-wide projects to raise awareness about violence against women, and to promote ideals about gender equality and healthy relationships.
www.whiteribbon.ca/educational_materials/

White Ribbon Campaign in a Box
Set of fully interactive exercises designed to help teach and promote healthy equal relationships among boys and girls in grades 5-8.
www.whiteribbon.ca/ciab/

Boys Conference
A full day conference for boys in grades 6-8 to help promote healthy equal relationships, in partnership with Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario.
info@whiteribbon.com for more information.

National Clearinghouse on Family Violence
Canada’s resource centre for information on violence within relationships of kinship, intimacy, dependency or trust.
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ncfv-cnivf/index-eng.php

Working with Men and Boys Toolkit
Readings, case studies, handouts, exercises, and community-building tools.
http://toolkit.endabuse.org/Home.html

Tools For Change
Resources that promote healthy equal relationships, for grades 3-9.
www.toolsforchange.ca

Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia
Anti-homophobia peer education activities in high schools and community settings.
www.ppt.on.ca/anti-homophobia_teach.asp

XY Online
Website focused on men, masculinities, and gender politics.
www.xyonline.net

Tough Guise:  Media Images and The Crisis in Masculinity
Video geared toward college and high school students examining the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities.
www.jacksonkatz.com

Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Video with an in-depth look at representations of manhood, sexism and homophobia in hip-hop culture.
www.itvs.org/outreach/hiphop/

RePlay: Finding Zoe
Resource for boys and girls dealing with healthy relationships. Information in English and French about how to use RePlay as a discussion starter for kids.
http://www.metrac.org/programs/info/replay.htm

Agassi, Martine. Hands Are Not for Hitting. Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Publishing, 2000.

Biddulph, S. Raising Boys. Sydney: Finch Publishing, 1997.

Coloroso, Barbara. The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander. Toronto: Harper Collins, 2002.

Coltrane, S. Family Man: Fatherhood, Housework and Gender Equity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Cooper, Scott. Speak Up and Get Along! Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Publishing, 2005.

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