Men Can Stop Rape’s Men Creating Change Chapters are the nation’s most comprehensive strategy to engage college and university men in preventing violence against women, developing and supporting healthy masculinity, and sustainably organizing to create campuses and cultures free from violence.
Men Creating Change accomplishes these goals by supporting student groups, faculty and staff on college campuses, both men and women, who are working to end violence against women. We provide training, organizing tools and technical assistance based on our experience of more than a decade as a national leader in the prevention of men’s violence against women.
Men Creating Change is based on Men Can Stop Rape’s core organizational values: prevention, nonviolence, redefining masculinity, male positive and gender equity. Members of our chapters examine and challenge masculinity as it relates to themselves and society, rejecting harmful aspects of traditional masculinity in favor of individual masculinities that affirm their unique realities and experiences. This positions them to create healthier, safer, and ultimately happier lives for themselves and the men and women they care about.
Members also take this knowledge and apply it throughout their campuses and communities in many ways, including: - Mentoring and role modeling healthy masculinity
- Partnering with campus and community women’s groups
- Conducting peer education
- Sponsoring social and educational events
- Engaging in activism
- Exploring the many ways men can be allies of women and girls
In these and other ways, Men Creating Change members raise awareness of the important roles men can play in preventing violence against women and promote positive versions of masculinity.
Men Creating Change allies include: - DC Consortium of Universities Addressing Sexual Assault
- Greeks Against Sexual Assault
- North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault
- Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN)
- Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER)
- U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Women’s Health
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