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Join us for a powerful day of connection, confidence, and community at Olympus Boxing Club.
Date: Saturday, July 26
Location: Olympus Boxing Club
Who: Women and girls of all experience levels are welcome.
Come as you are. Leave stronger, connected, and inspired.
Hosted through the partnership between Strong Roots Initiative and Pivot Society, the FORGE × Gloves Not Guns experience brings women and girls together to build strength—both inside and outside the ring. Through introductory boxing and meaningful conversation, participants will explore self-awareness and personal growth in a welcoming, supportive environment.
Whether you're trying boxing for the first time or simply looking to connect with an empowering community, this event is designed to help you challenge yourself, support one another, and leave feeling stronger than when you arrived.
Past Events
Crime Prevention Through Connection:
A Community-led Values-based Approach
This six-hour interactive workshop challenges traditional, status-quo approaches to crime prevention by centering community voice and values-based practice. Grounded in a longitudinal case study, participants are invited to examine how systemic gaps, rigid mandates, and siloed responses often fail young people and communities experiencing victimization—frequently increasing risk rather than reducing it.
Through storytelling, facilitated reflection, and multi-disciplinary group work, the session explores how unmet needs, lack of support, and unhealed trauma can contribute to cycles of harm—not by choice, but by circumstance. Emphasis is placed on understanding victimization and ongoing care as critical components of crime prevention.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to reframe crime prevention as a collective responsibility by committing to collaborative, values-driven actions that reduce harm and interrupt cycles of victimization.
This presentation is applicable to all attendees. Crime prevention takes a collaborative community approach
