Sexual Violence Prevention In Your Community

Sexual Violence Prevention in your Community

COVA Conference October 20, 2009 Laney Gibbes, Marti Kovener, & Catherine Guerrero

Let’s Talk Prevention

•Primary Prevention: any action, strategy or policy that prevents sexual violence from initially occurring. •Secondary Prevention: Immediate responses after violence has occurred to deal with the consequences in the short-term. •Tertiary Prevention: Long-term responses after violence has occurred to deal with the lasting consequences of violence. *Definitions from Center for Disease Control

Primary Prevention: What’s the Focus SOCIETAL

COMMUNITY/ ORGANIZATIO N RELATIONSHIP INDIVIDUAL

Multi-partner collaborations to change laws & social norms that support sexual violence. Environmental influences designed to impact the climate, systems, and policies. Interpersonal influences: peers, intimate partners, and family members. Individual Influences: Biology, temperament, attitudes and beliefs; exposure to violence. VERA Institute of Justice

How: What’s the Process

VERA Institute of Justice

Identify Risk and Define the Problem Protective Factors Review your local program data Review your law enforcement statistics Review community demographics and context Talk to your schools, health departments, social service departments, and other human service organizations • Ensure you are gathering information from diverse sources • • • •

Identify Risk and Risk and Protective Factors Protective Factors • Risk Factors – associated with a greater likelihood of sexual violence perpetration: contributing factors – may or may not be direct causes. Not everyone who is identified as "at risk" becomes a perpetrator of violence.* • Protective Factors – may lessen the likelihood of sexual violence victimization or perpetration by buffering against risk: can exist at individual, relational, community, and societal levels.*

*http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/SV/svp-

Sexual Violence Risk Factors

http://www.cdc.gov/Ncipc/dvp/SV/svp-risk_protective.htm

Nine Principles of Effective Prevention Programs • • • • • • • • •

Comprehensive Varied Teaching Methods Sufficient Dosage Theory Driven Positive Relationships Appropriately Timed Socio-Culturally Relevant Outcome Evaluation Well-Trained Staff

Nation, M., Crusto, C., Wandersman, A., Kumpfer, K. L., Seybolt, D., Morrissey-Kane, E., &Davino, K. (2003). “Whatworksinprevention: Principlesof EffectivePrevention Programs.”

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http://www.preventconnect.org/wiki/index.php?title=Nine_Principles_of_Effective_Prevention_Programs

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Prevention Strategies

Bystander Intervention

Social Norms

Media Literacy

Education and Skill Building

contact

Laney Gibbes: [email protected] Marti Kovener: [email protected] Catherine Guerrero, CDHE [email protected] For copies of presentation materials: www.capacity360.com/stuff