Tools & Resources
Featured Tools & Resources
Advocate’s Guide to Talking to Parents/Guardians About Healthy Relationships and Sexual Violence Prevention for Children and Youth
Learning healthy relationship skills is a vital part of sexual violence prevention and sex education, all of which are most impactful when taught together. Parents/guardians…
Healthy Relationships Activity Book
Stopping sexual violence and other forms of harm can feel like a complicated and overwhelming task. Education is an important form of sexual violence prevention.
What Can We Talk About? Common Rules & Regulations
It is important for all members of a sexual assault response team (SART) to understand one another’s different professional and ethical obligations before the team…
Tools & Resources
Five Core Principles for Working with Sexually Exploited or Trafficked Youth
Working with trafficked or sexually exploited youth is a rewarding endeavor, but it can also be challenging. It is important to think about the values…
Stop SV Technical Package
The CDC’s STOP SV Technical Package highlights five strategies that assist communities in preventing and reducing sexual violence. These prevention strategies focus on protective and…
The Spectrum of Prevention
The Spectrum of Prevention was developed by the Prevention Institute and recognizes that creating widespread changes will take more than increasing…
Risk Factors
Risk and protective factors demonstrate how we can better inform our prevention strategies. Risk factors are associated with a higher likelihood of sexual violence perpetration…
Protective Factors
Risk and protective factors demonstrate how we can better inform our prevention strategies. Risk factors are associated with a higher likelihood of sexual violence perpetration…
Societal Factors
Risk and protective factors demonstrate how we can better inform our prevention strategies. Risk factors are associated with a higher likelihood of sexual violence perpetration…
Relationship Factors
Risk and protective factors demonstrate how we can better inform our prevention strategies. Risk factors are associated with a higher likelihood of sexual violence perpetration…
Community Factors
Risk and protective factors demonstrate how we can better inform our prevention strategies. Risk factors are associated with a higher likelihood of sexual violence perpetration…
Black Women’s Blueprint Culturally Specific Model
Black Women’s Blueprint has expanded upon the CDC’s Social-Ecological Model to demonstrate that additional factors are present within our world and must be considered. Black…
The Social-Ecological Model
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed the Social-Ecological Model which recognizes that our behavior is influenced by many things including with whom…
Models of Prevention
Primary Prevention Primary prevention means stopping sexual violence before it occurs, including before someone is harmed and/or causes harm. Primary prevention requires comprehensive and intersectional…
Healthy Relationship Skills and Sexual Violence Prevention Programming Assessment Tool
Learning, practicing, and teaching healthy relationship skills is important for all members of a community, and knowing what local sexual violence prevention efforts look like…