Partnered with a Survivor: David Mandel and Ruth Reymundo Mandel
This podcast is a series of conversations.
What started as a series of intimate conversations between Ruth and David that ranged from personal to professional experiences around violence, relationships, abuse, and system and professional responses which harm, not help, has now become a global conversation about systems and culture change. In many episodes, David and Ruth are joined by a global leader in different areas like child safety, men and masculinity, and, of course, partnering with survivors. Each episode is a deep dive into complex topics like how systems fail domestic abuse survivors and their children, societal views of masculinity and violence, and how intersectionalities such as cultural beliefs, religious beliefs, and unique vulnerabilities impact how we respond to abuse and violence. These far-ranging discussions offer an insider look into how we navigate the world together as professionals, as parents, and as partners. During these podcasts, David and Ruth challenge the notions which keep all of us from moving forward collectively as systems, as cultures, and as families into safety, nurturance, and healing.
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Partnered with a Survivor: David Mandel and Ruth Reymundo Mandel
Season 4 Episode 9: The Last Drop Film: A Revolutionary New Tool for Professionals Working with Young People Around Coercive Control
The problem of dating violence and coercive control among young people has been sorely overlooked, and educational resources are hard to find. In order to make coercive control visible to youth and to fill a gap in professional education materials and intervention strategies for young people, we have partnered with the revolutionary new abuse prevention film The Last Drop. In this episode, Ruth and David chat with Adam Joel, the writer and director of the film.
In this interview, David, Ruth, and Adam speak about:
- How this film came to be, how a diverse group of Lived Experience Experts informed the film, and what he hopes the film’s impact will be
- Why the way we tell the story of abuse is vital to preventing and intervening with abuse
- How messaging and advocacy about domestic violence needs to include a focus on coercive control, not just physical violence
- How youth populations have unique patterns of coercive control, often invisible to adults, like digital coercion related to the social media world that is so important young people
- Safe & Together Institute’s role as Executive Producer on the film including producing an Ally Guide as a companion to The Last Drop to provide professionals with strategies and tools when working with youth experiencing or perpetrating coercive control
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