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COVA ConferenceOctober 20, 2009Laney Gibbes, MartiKovener, & Catherine

Guerrero

Sexual Violence Preventionin

your Community

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Lets Talk Prevention

Primary Prevention: any action, strategy or policy that preventssexual 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 hasoccurred to deal with the lasting consequences of violence.

*Definitions from Center for Disease Control

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Individual Influences: Biology,temperament, attitudes and beliefs;exposure to violence.

Interpersonal influences: peers,intimate partners, and familymembers.

Environmental influences designedto impact the climate, systems, andpolicies.

Multi-partner collaborations to changelaws & social norms that support sexualviolence.

SOCIETAL

COMMUNITY/ORGANIZATION

RELATIONSHIP

INDIVIDUAL

Primary Prevention:Whats the Focus

VERA Institute of Justice

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How: Whats the Process

VERA Institute of Justice

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Identify Risk andProtective Factors

Review your local program data

Review your law enforcement statistics

Review community demographics and context

Talk to your schools, health departments, socialservice departments, and other human serviceorganizations

Ensure you are gathering information from

diverse sources

Define the Problem

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Identify Risk andProtective Factors

Risk Factors associated with a greaterlikelihood of sexual violence perpetration:contributing factors may or may not be directcauses. Not everyone who is identified as "at risk"becomes a perpetrator of violence.*

Protective Factors may lessen the likelihoodof sexual violence victimization or perpetration bybuffering against risk: can exist at individual,relational, community, and societal levels.*

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

Risk and Protective Factors

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Sexual Violence RiskFactors

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

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Nine Principles ofEffective 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). What worksinprevention: Principlesof EffectivePrevention

Programs. AmericanPsychologist , 58, 449-456.Retrievedfrom" http://www.preventconnect.org/wiki/index.php?title=Nine_Principles_of_Effective_Prevention_Programs "

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Prevention Strategies

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Bystander Intervention

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Social Norms

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Media Literacy

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Education and Skill Building

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