Healthy Masculinity Action Project

The Healthy Masculinity Action Project (HMAP) serves as an international catalyst for examining the intersections of masculinity and violence and for advancing healthy, non-violent masculinity.

Every day we hear violent news stories that can be linked to masculinity. Rarely, if ever, do we hear the other side of the story. It is time to highlight the positive.

Led by MCSR, seven esteemed national organizations in the gender-based violence prevention field – MCSR, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, Men Stopping Violence, Break the Cycle, Coach for America, Women of Color Network, and A CALL TO MEN – launched HMAP in 2012 with the National Healthy Masculinity Summit. Through traditional and social media as well as events and webinars, HMAP messages have reached more than 60,000,000 people. Since 2012, MCSR has continued to implement HMAP programming, sparking an international healthy masculinity movement, and setting a standard for building a new generation of male leaders who model strength without violence.

Based on a public health approach, the desired outcomes of HMAP have been shaped by a logic model that serves as a guide for planning and assessment. All the components of MCSR’s HMAP together constitute a unified and comprehensive whole that positively engages boys and men in prevention at all the levels of the social ecological model.

A plenary conversation at the Healthy Masculinity Summit, October 2012 in Washington, DC

READ THE NEW 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE 2012 HEALTHY MASCULINITY SUMMIT REPORT

The Healthy Masculinity Summit was a first-of-its-kind effort to highlight and explore how healthy masculinity positively impacts society. The summit advanced new ideas for how to spread healthy masculinity in all areas of human activity—athletics, faith, technology, business, youth development, education, parenthood, gender-based violence, and more—by engaging subject-matter experts and non-traditional partners alike with an intentional focus on the many ways these areas also intersect with race, gender, class, and identity. Read the full report.

HMAP Components:

Email training@mcsr.org to learn more about launching HMAP in your community or campus.

 

The National Healthy Masculinity Conversation Series

The National Healthy Masculinity Conversation Series features creative dialogues facilitated by MCSR that examine healthy masculinity’s presence in all areas of human activity and behavior -- especially in the prevention of men’s violence against women and girls.

 
 

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