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Kevin Vowles

Kevin Vowles

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Kevin Vowles is a healthy relationships/violence prevention program delivery specialist, and program creator. He has a combined fourteen years of experience as an educational practitioner working with youth, communities, and disenfranchised members of society around issues of social justice, education, health promotion and violence prevention. Kevin has worked in Africa, Toronto and British Columbia.  

 

As a Master’s student at Royal Roads University, his specific research areas of interest include: child and youth participation, youth participatory action research, theories of aggression and hyper-masculinity as they relate to cyberbullying, youth exposure to pornography and corresponding sexualized violence increases, leadership, sustainable community development, and effective violence prevention education. He is presently finishing a Master’s research project examining levels of violence in the social lives of youth on Salt Spring Island. Kevin plans to start a PhD program in 2016, to examine the emotional reasons why adolescents are accessing pornography, and develop a comprehensive educational intervention.

 

Kevin has recently created a peer support program at Royal Roads University for Students Against Violence, focusing on Gender-Based Violence, and is on UNICEF rosters to do freelance writing and reporting in South Sudan, and educational consulting on violence prevention education in Central and Eastern Europe. Kevin has created and facilitated violence prevention professional development for the BC Teacher’s Federation, and has gone on to train trainers in this process. He is a public speaker, writer, facilitator and a feminist.

Peter and the Whimper Whineys Coloring Book

Peter and the Whimper Whineys Coloring Book

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<p><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;">This coloring book version of the best-selling “whine-stopper” children’s story was designed for kids to enjoy reading the rhyming, as well as being able to illustrate their own version of Peter’s nocturnal adventure into the woods.</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;" /><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;" /><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;">Peter’s mother warns him that if he doesn’t stop whining and crying, he’ll have to go live with the Whimper-Whineys. His adventure continues as he later hops into the woods and finds lots of frightening Whimper-Whineymen! He discovers that the Whimper-Whineys are very ill-mannered and rude, and that everything is sour in Whimper-Whineland. He decides his mother was right. If only he can get back home!</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;" /><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;" /><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;">According to a recent critique, “I cannot imagine any parent or guardian not wanting to read this book to their child! ... Parents everywhere applaud you!”</span></p>

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