February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. The month provides a great opportunity to raise awareness about abuse in teen and young adult relationships and promote programs that prevent it – because dating violence is more common than you might think. In fact, girls and young women between the ages of 16 […]
Earlier this month, CASS collaborated with Mic on a new video promoting our Safe Bars program. The innovative Safe Bars program teaches bar staff via a flexible, two-hour training to respond to sexual harassment and prevent it from escalating to assault. Since the program’s inception, over twenty bars in DC have stepped up as Safe […]
At CASS, we are dedicated to building spaces that treat all individuals with dignity and respect. We work every day to challenge power imbalances that enable the unequal treatment of people in public spaces. It’s an especially important time to recognize the importance of countering state violence — violence enacted by a government or its institutions—in […]
We love this story about a bystander intervention at the 801 bar! If you witness a positive bystander intervention, we’d love to hear about it! A couple weeks ago I was at 801 when a somewhat drunk male patron who I was making friendly conversation with went to reach for something at the bar and […]
This year has been a whirlwind. But I don’t look back at 2016 as a year of failures and tragedies. I see how many challenges we’ve overcome and how many new activists are stepping up and mobilizing for safe spaces. The hardest lesson I’ve learned in 2016 has been about the prevalence of racism within […]