Health & Sexuality

This “technical package” for the CDC is a compilation of a core set of strategies that are deemed likely to reduce the overall incidence of sexual violence based on the best available evidence. Organized by three components, strategy, approach and evidence, this collection was designed to help communities make informed decisions and prioritize their efforts.
Strategies and approaches are thematically organized across the social ecology (individual, relationships, families, schools, communities and social structures) with comprehensive and complementary activities that address gender norms and protective factors across the lifespan.

The agent of Change is an innovative online sexual violence prevention education program. It uses gaming technology to engage user in role-plays in various settings that are typical to a college environment. Content addresses sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, and intimate partner violence.

Dating Matters is part of CDC's Veto Violence initiative and is 60-minute online course which is available at no cost to educators, school personnel, youth mentors, and others who are interested in improving teen health. Follow a school administrator throughout his day as he highlights what teen dating violence is and how to prevent it through graphic novel scenarios, interactive exercises, and information gathered from dating violence experts.

WholeSomeBodies is a curriculum for adults with youth in their lives like parents, teachers, coaches,
mentors, and really all adults! Through the course of the workshop, you will Increase your knowledge of healthy sexuality and increase your skills and motivation to model and teach healthy sexuality to the youth and children in your life.

Description: Pride in the Pews (PIP) is a nationwide campaign aimed at celebrating stories of resilient queer faith in the Black Church. At present, PIP is seeking to interview 66 people, and use the findings to create a toolkit and facilitate conversations around how these sacred spaces can be more equitable and inclusive for the LGBTQ+ community. The website currently offers a list of Queer affirming black churches and a reading list.

This resource identifies concepts and strategies that may be used as a foundation for planning, implementing, and evaluating sexual violence prevention activities.

This resource highlights the differences between prevention, awareness, and risk reduction.

This policy brief presents the distilled research and critical thinking of a diverse group of local and national experts in the field of child sexual abuse and exploitation. Prevention Institute assembled this team and coordinated their efforts with the generous funding and support of the Ms. Foundation for Women. This brief focuses on strategies that hold the greatest promise for transforming communities and preventing child abuse and exploitation.