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10/11/2010

The success of Day One's 2010 Benefit to End Dating Violence Among Youth could not have been achieved without host Tamron Hall's compelling voice. Her personal connection to the issue and her powerful presence propelled many to take a deeper look into the issue. Check out this article she wrote in honor of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month for Grio.com.

Check out Executive Director Stephanie Nilva and Youth Voices Network Coordinator Jean Sung on News Nation with Tamron Hall on MSNBC.

The Youth Voices Network at Day One is searching for poets, short story writers, essayists, and other creative writers to showcase the power of New York City high school students in speaking out against domestic violence.

WINNERS WILL BE PUBLISHED ONLINE AND RECEIVE BARNES & NOBLE GIFT CERTIFICATES.

This Cycle's Theme:
REWRITING RELATIONSHIPS

Submission Guidelines:

• Write a poem, short story, or essay of no longer than 10 pages that rewrites a relationship you have seen on TV, in a book, or in a movie.
• Clearly title your submission.
• Send your submission along with a completed submission form (attached) via email to YVNWritingContest@gmail.com as Microsoft Word documents.
• Deadline for Fall 2010 edition is Friday, October 29th, 2010.

Please contact Jean Sung at jsung@dayoneny.org with any questions.

Rights – Upon acceptance, Day One acquires the rights to permanent inclusion of the work in Day One's electronic archive and the right to reproduce the work in print and electronic media.

• Click here to download a submission form in Microsoft Word format.
  
• Click here to download a submission form in PDF format.

Day One's new blog, One Voice, has launched! Day One is working to expand our abilities to reach youth. As technology changes the way we communicate, One Voice is our latest effort to engage our community in building safer futures for youth.

Day One and the Youth Voices Network recently participated in the GlassBook Project and helped develop an issue brief on addressing intimate partner violence on college campuses. Click here to read the full brief.

Day One has created a teaching tool about the song and video "Love the Way You Lie" by Eminem, featuring Rihanna, to help support teachers in classrooms. Please click here to download the document.

Executive Director, Stephanie Nilva, was recently interviewed about Eminem and Rihanna's "Love the Way You Lie" music video.

Click here to watch the video on MTV.com.

City Limits magazine recently profiled Day One's Community Education program. Click here to download the article.

Please join us for Day One's seventh annual benefit to end dating abuse among youth.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2010
at
THE PUCK BUILDING
295 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 

For more information, please visit our benefit webpage.

On October 7, 2008 the New York City Council presented Day One with a proclamation to commemorate our Fifth Anniversary of working with youth to prevent domestic violence. Right, Executive Director Stephanie Nilva, with the rest of the Day One staff, accepts the proclamation from City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and Council Members Diana Reyna and Melissa Mark-Viverito at City Hall.

As of July 2008, New York State extended access to civil Orders of Protection to domestic violence victims in dating relationships.  Since 2004, Day One advocated to grant the same legal protection to all victims of relationship abuse. Day One celebrates this achievement with the many advocates who have been working on this issue for two decades. On behalf of the young survivors we assist, we thank the many legislators whose efforts contributed to this success, including Governor David A. Paterson, Assembly Member Helene E. Weinstein, Senator George H. Winner, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others.