Prevention

Best Practices

Contents:

• Bystander Intervention
• Healthy Relationships
• Healthy Sexuality
• Child Sexual Abuse
• Youth / Teens / Harassment & Bullying
• Culturally Specific Programs
• Men’s Work

Bystander Intervention

• Engaging Bystanders in Sexual Violence Prevention | booklet made available by the NSVRC (National Sexual Violence Resource Center); also available en Español

• Green Dot Program – originally created at University of Kentucky, Green Dot has quickly grown to be a nationally recognized bystander intervention program

• StepUP Program – University of Arizona based program focused on college campuses with an emphasis on college athletes

Healthy Relationships

• The Fourth R - Strategies for Healthy Youth Relationships

• Safe Dates – a curriculum for grades 6–12 from Respect WORKS!\

• Expect Respect – school-based program for teen dating violence prevention

• Safe-T – a curriculum for youth from Prevent Child Abuse Vermont

Healthy Sexuality

• Healthy sexuality for sexual violence prevention: A report on promising curriculum-based approaches  – Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance | a comprehensive review of four promising curricula related to healthy sexuality including the prevention of sexual assault

• FLASH - a curricula out of Washington’s Public Health service.

• It’s All One – published by the Population Council | a curriculum aimed mainly at confronting HIV/Aids but it takes a well-rounded approach - viewing HIV prevention as a human rights education issue. The curriculum is in two “books” which can be downloaded as PDF’s - free!

• Circles of Sexuality exercise – part of the CARE Gender Toolkit

• Our Whole LIves - a series of curricula covering the lifespan produced by the Unitarian Universalist Association

• Sexual Ethics for a Caring Society – combining sex ed, health, philosophy and critical thinking; readings and resources; how does democracy intersect with consent? Discuss…

Child Sexual Abuse

• Darkness to Light – empowering people to prevent child sexual abuse
• Stop It Now! 

Youth / Teens / Harassment & Bullying

• VAWNet Special Collection: Preventing and Responding to Teen Dating Violence – list of resources broken down by sub-topics

• Connection Between Bullying and Sexual Violence Perpetration – CDC information page with stats and links to research

• Dating Matters Initiative: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships – CDC teen dating violence prevention initiative
• Dating Matters info sheet  (2MB)
• Stand4Respect – a project of ICADV (Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence)

• Let’s Get Real: Lessons & Activities to Address Name-Calling & Bullying – film and accompanying curriculum guide (sold as package; curriculum excerpts available)

• Creative Action for Equality –  a toolkit, project of the Texas Council on Family Violence

Culturally Specific Programs

• Be Strong: From the Inside Out – curriculum for young women ages 13-19

• Straightlaced: How Gender’s Got Us All Tied Up – film and accompanying curriculum guide (sold as package; curriculum excerpts available)

• Preventing Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence in Racial/Ethnic Minority Communities – a review of 10 CDC demonstration projects examining the needs of under-served communities

Men’s Work

• Mobilizing Men in Practice: Challenging sexual and gender-based violence in institutional settings [PDF] – Institute of Development Studies

• VAWNet Special Collection: Men and Boys: Preventing Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence [link to web page] – a wealth of resources, links, and videos