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Resources

Violence Prevention Programs and Resources

Athletes As Leaders

Athletes As Leaders™ (originally Student Leaders & Athletic Youth) is a program for high school athletes on girls’ sports teams. The program aims to empower student-athletes to take an active role in promoting healthy relationships and ending sexual violence. Athletes are encouraged to be leaders in changing social norms at school (and beyond) to a culture of safety and respect.
https://www.athletesasleaders.org/


Coaching Boys Into Men

Athletic coaches play an extremely influential and unique role in the lives of young men. Because of these relationships, coaches are poised to positively influence how young men think and behave, both on and off the field. Coaching Boys Into Men (CBIM) is the only evidence-based prevention program that trains and motivates high school coaches to teach young male athletes healthy relationship skills and that violence never equals strength.
https://www.coachescorner.org/


Futures Without Violence

Futures Without Violence is a health and social justice nonprofit with a simple mission: to heal those among us who are traumatized by violence today – and to create healthy families and communities free of violence tomorrow.

From domestic violence and child abuse to bullying and sexual assault, the organization’s groundbreaking programs, policy development, and public action campaigns are designed to prevent and end violence against women and children around the world.
https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/


Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence: Teen Dating Violence Materials

During February’s National Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month, teens and those who support them join together to raise awareness about teen dating violence. Dating violence is more common than many people think.One in three teens in a dating relationship abuse – emotional, sexual or physical. Order FREE campaign materials today for your school, youth organization, or community.
https://idvsa.org/2021ntdvapm/


Prevent Connect

The goal of PreventConnect is to advance the primary prevention of sexual assault and relationship violence by building a community of practice among people who are engaged in such efforts.PreventConnect also builds the capacity of local, state, territorial, national and tribal agencies and organizations to develop, implement and evaluate effective prevention initiatives.
http://www.preventconnect.org/


Prevent IPV: Tools for Social Change

The IPV Prevention Council represents a unified national effort committed to enhancing the capacity of state/territory domestic violence coalitions and community-based domestic violence programs to advance a comprehensive national prevention agenda and broaden support for its full implementation at the national, state, territory and local levels.

https://preventipv.org/


Promundo

Promundo works to promote gender equality and prevent violence by engaging men and boys in partnership with women and girls. Our programs, campaigns, and advocacy efforts across the themes below are based in rigorous research, including the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), and are designed to improve the lives of people around the world.  https://promundoglobal.org/


Shifting Boundaries: Lessons on Relationships for Students in Middle School

Shifting Boundaries is an evidence-based, multi-level prevention program for middle school students on sexual harassment and precursors to dating violence. The program is unique in that it embraces an environmental approach that identifies multiple strategies to support young people – both school-wide interventions and classroom lessons.
https://vawnet.org/material/shifting-boundaries-lessons-relationships-students-middle-school


Take a Stand for Healthy Relationships Curriculum

Take A Stand FOR Healthy Relationships is a teen dating violence prevention curriculum from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV). With self-paced modules and lesson plans, students will garner important skills in communication and self-awareness. Students will learn to recognize healthy and safe qualities and behaviors in relationships, and how to effectively and safely ally for self and others when it comes to building healthy relationships.
http://teens4healthyrelationships.org/


VetoViolence

VetoViolence exists to empower you and your community to prevent violence and implement evidence-based prevention strategies in your community. Tools, training, and resources are designed to empower you and your partners to help reduce risks for violence and to increase what protects people and communities from it.
https://vetoviolence.cdc.gov/apps/main/home


Domestic & Dating Violence Information

Connecting the Dots: An Overview of the Links Among Multiple Forms of Violence

Violence takes many forms, including intimate partner violence, sexual violence, child maltreatment, bullying, suicidal behavior, and elder abuse and neglect. These forms of violence are interconnected and often share the same root causes. They can also all take place under one roof, or in a given community or neighborhood and can happen at the same time or at different stages of life. Understanding the overlapping causes of violence and the associated protective factors for individuals and communities is important, and can help us better address violence in all its forms.
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/connecting_the_dots-a.pdf


Love Is Respect

Love is Respect is a national resource aimed at disrupting and preventing unhealthy relationships and intimate partner violence by empowering young people through inclusive and equitable education, support, and resources.
https://www.loveisrespect.org/


National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence

For almost two decades, the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence (HRC) has supported health care professionals, domestic violence experts, survivors, and policy makers at all levels as they improve health care’s response to domestic violence.   https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/health/national-health-resource-center-on-domestic-violence/


Preventing Intimate Partner Violence Across the Lifespan: A Technical Package of Programs, Policies, and Practices

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed technical packages to help states and communities take advantage of the best available evidence to prevent violence. A technical package has three parts.

  • The strategy lays out the direction or actions to achieve the goal of preventing violence.
  • The approach includes specific ways to advance the strategy. This can be accomplished through programs, policies, and practices.
  • The evidence for each of the approaches in preventing violence or its associated risk factors is included as the third component.

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/ipv-technicalpackages.pdf


Sexual Violence Information

HEART (Health Education, Advocacy, Research, Training)

The mission of HEART is to ensure that all Muslims have the resources, language, and choice to nurture sexual health and confront sexual violence.
https://hearttogrow.org/


National Sexual Violence Resource Center: Resource on the Go Podcast

Sexual harassment, abuse, and assault are serious and widespread issues — but we can all work together to eliminate these issues and create a safer world. That’s where Resource on the Go comes in. Each episode shares insights on responding and preventing to sexual assault from experts who are doing this work every day. A go-to source for those working to end sexual violence, this podcast will explore topics like community-level prevention, evaluation, messaging, and more.
https://www.nsvrc.org/podcasts


STOP SV: A Technical Package to Prevent Sexual Violence

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed technical packages to help states and communities take advantage of the best available evidence to prevent violence. A technical package has three parts.

  • The strategy lays out the direction or actions to achieve the goal of preventing violence.
  • The approach includes specific ways to advance the strategy. This can be accomplished through programs, policies and practices.
  • The evidence for each of the approaches in preventing violence or its associated risk factors is included as the third component.

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/SV-Prevention-Technical-Package.pdf


LGBTQIA+

The Network/La Red

The Network/La Red is a survivor-led, social justice organization that works to end partner abuse in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, SM, polyamorous, and queer communities. Rooted in anti-oppression principles, the organization aims to create a world where all people are free from oppression. The Network/La Red works to strengthen communities through organizing, education, and the provision of support services.
https://www.tnlr.org/en/


Northwest Network

The NW Network of Bi, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse works to end violence and abuse by building loving and equitable relationships in our community and across the country.
https://www.nwnetwork.org/


Youth Engagement & Development

Idaho Youth 4 Change Collective

By nurturing the conditions for self-empowerment, the Idaho Youth for Change Collective will strengthen skills, build relationships, and spark equitable, healthy and thriving communities across Idaho.
https://idahoyouth4change.flywheelsites.com/


Tools for Online Facilitation

The goal of this illustrated resource zine is to share a few online tools that preventionists can use in their online programming to support learning, skill sharing, and deeper engagement. Some of these tools may be completely new, while others you may be more familiar with! The most important thing is to experiment and be creative; some tools can be used in ways even their developers didn’t think about, and ultimately you know your community best— strategize on how you can introduce and use these tools with your people to make your online spaces what you need them to be.

Click here for the online PDF 


Youth Leadership Institute

Youth Leadership Institute builds communities where young people and their adult allies come together to create positive community change that promotes social justice and racial equity.
https://yli.org/