Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
Mississippi Rape Prevention and Education Project - The overall purpose of the Mississippi Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) program is to decrease rates of sexual violence (SV) perpetration and victimization. Mississippi RPE will conduct the following activities to effectuate this purpose: • Identify and establish public/private partnerships that can provide technical assistance (TA) and support evaluation capacity of sub-recipients to facilitate and monitor the implementation of prevention programs/practices/policies; • Develop a state action plan for implementing approaches corresponding to the focus areas (promoting social norms; teaching skills; creating protective environments; and providing opportunities to empower and support girls and women); • Develop and implement a state-level evaluation plan (goals of the state align with the sub recipient implementation); • Identify and track SV indicators; • Participation in CDC-sponsored program support activities; • Implement no more than 50% of all strategies at the individual/relationship level with approaches corresponding to the teaching skills focus area; • Implement at least 50% of all strategies at the community/societal-level (not solely in school settings); and • Partner with Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault to convene other public and private partners, disseminate data and provide training. There anticipated outcomes of these activities are both short term and long term. Short term anticipated outcomes are as follows: • Increase alignment between state level goals and prevention strategies at state and local levels; • Increased capacity from partnerships to access and use data and leverage support; • Increase data driven decision-making for program selection; • Demonstrate the selection of sub-recipients based on data driven decision making; • Track at least 10 process and 5 outcome indicators through use of evaluation plan; and • Demonstrate tracking of state-level SV indicators through Tableau platform and web-based sharing. Long term anticipated outcomes are as follows: • Increased use of partnerships to implement community/societal-level strategies and improve coordination of MS SV prevention efforts; • Demonstrate use of data driven division making for program delivery; • Demonstrate that use of indicator data to track implementation and outcomes through implementation of quality improvement plan informed by evaluation; • Demonstrate environmental and community changes that result from selected community/societal-level strategies using tracking of at least 5 risk and protective factor indicators of MS; and • Increases in protective/decrease risk factors related to SV perpetration and victimization.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).