A National Project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault
A summary of the resource from the National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women:
Peer Educators: The Frontline in Campus Violence Prevention by Aurelia Sands Belle (2013)
This presentation provides information about the roles and responsibilities of peer education in violence prevention and offers guidance on establishing a peer education program. Also included here are special considerations for peer educators at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
A CALCASA blog post, 4 simple guidelines: A streamlined approach to developing effective prevention programming, cites valuable resources to develop successful prevention programs. This tool can help re-focus program planning and development discussions.
PreventConnect’s podcast, A Campus-Community Partnership for Prevention: Evaluating Prevention Programming in North Carolina, discusses the prevention evaluation partnership between the University of North Carolina and their local rape crisis center.
In this webinar hosted by Men Can Stop Rape, The “Using Healthy Masculinity to Engage College Age Men” Introductory Webinar, answers four questions: Why healthy masculinity? What is healthy masculinity? How can healthy masculinity help with prevention? And how can colleges and communities normalize healthy masculinity? The section asking “Why?” looks at the relationship between healthy masculinity and primary prevention. Responses to “What?” describe aspects of healthy masculinity. Answers to how it helps with prevention are based on the transformative and strength-based assets of healthy masculinity. And in the final section, the Spectrum of Prevention is presented as a way of normalizing healthy masculinity in colleges and communities.
To view the webinar slides click here and to listen to the recording click here.
This webinar presented by Green Dot entitled, “In Scoring a Hat Trick: Three Ways to Maximize your Partnerships with Athletics,” presenters Darcie Folsom and CC Curtis of Connecticut College provided concrete suggestions for ways campus grantees can engage student athletes in their violence prevention efforts. Folsom and Curtis focused on three primary strategies: clearing the puck (investigating biases), planning for the power play (branding and relationship building), and the breakaway (making violence prevention the cool thing to do). Some of the concrete solutions offered during the webinar included attending athletic events, planning around athletes’ schedules, using a health promotion lens to engage athletes, identifying and building relationships with key athletic stakeholders, taking materials where athletes spend their time, giving recognition to athletes and coaches, highlighting your athletic partnerships when talking with prospective students, never mandating athletes to participate in prevention activities, and giving athletes tangible skills to keep their teammates from getting hurt or getting in trouble. Folsom and Curtis highlighted many of their successes at Connecticut College and answered questions about challenges, funding, and program assessment.
To view the webinar slides click here and to listen to the recording click here.
Engaging Bystanders in Sexual Violence Prevention is a resource from the NSVRC. This resource is also available in Spanish.
On the resource:
“This book presents a compelling orientation to the importance of engaging bystanders in sexual violence prevention. The narrative provides background on the development of an approach that empowers each of us to be involved in prevention. It discusses various reasons why individuals who witness a range of inappropriate behaviors may or may not take action, and presents ways to encourage and develop greater bystander involvement. Finally, this book serves as an excellent training resource; it provides activities and trainer instructions throughout that make it a useful educational guide on bystander engagement in sexual violence prevention.”
Prevent Connect held a web conference in late June 2014 titled “All Communities are Not Created Equal: Advancing health equity goals to enhance sexual and domestic violence prevention efforts.” The webinar provided an in-depth look at sexual and domestic violence prevention work to promote health equity.
This resource was prepared for the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault report of April 2014. The document has three parts that focus on: primary prevention strategies, prevention activities from the CDC’s Rape Prevention and Education program, and campus program prevention examples. Click here to view the document and learn more.
The Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control conducted a study, the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS). This resource reveals the survey’s 2010 findings on the interpersonal and sexual victimization by sexual orientation. A factsheet is also available for more information on the importance of the survey study, findings and highlights, opportunities for prevention and action, and additional resources.
The American Association of University Women released a resource for faculty, staff, students, and advocates to raise awareness about sexual violence on their campus. Click below to view the resource.
