Sexual Violence Prevention

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Overview

In order to prevent sexual violence, we must understand and address risk and protective factors at the individual, relational, community, and societal levels. Click here to learn more.

Prevention strategies focus on reducing the likelihood that a person will engage in sexual violence. These strategies can be found in  Sexual Violence Prevention Resource for Action (English, Spanish)

Source- CDC

Community prevention programs

Sexual Violence Prevention Resource for Action
  • Safe Dates: Program designed to prevent the initiation of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse in adolescent dating relationships.
  • Shifting Boundaries: Program designed to reduce dating violence and sexual harassment among adolescents.
  • Green Dot: Bystander-based prevention program designed to reduce sexual and other forms of interpersonal violence perpetration and victimization.
  • Second Step: Student Success Through Prevention (SS: SSTP): School-based program aimed at reducing bullying, peer victimization, and other problem behaviors.
  • Coaching Boys Into Men: Dating violence prevention program that uses the relationships between high school athletes and their coaches to change social norms and behaviors.
  • Bringing in the Bystander: Bringing in the Bystander is a bystander education and training program designed for male and female college students
  • Erin’s law- Mandated child sexual abuse prevention for schools
CDC Rape Prevention and Education Program

The RPE program works to prevent sexual violence by providing funding to state and territorial health departments in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and state, territorial, and tribal sexual assault coalitions. 

To connect with your state, territory, and tribal sexual assault coalition, click here.

Community member response
  • Men Can Stop Rape (MCSR): Educate men to use their strength for creating violent free cultures, especially violence against women.
  • No More- Increases awareness, inspires action, and fuels culture change to end domestic and sexual violence

Data collection surveys for professionals

  • Measures of Sexual Victimization–  Four major data collection systems that measure sexual victimization in the U.S. include:
    • National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
    • National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS)
    • Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
    • Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR).

To learn more about the surveys, click here.

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