Tuesday, May 13, 2025
5/13/2025
Ohio - Sexual Violence Prevention and Education - The goal of the Ohio Sexual Violence Prevention and Education program under the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Prevention Program (SADVPP) is to decrease rates of sexual violence perpetration and victimization in Ohio, to be accomplished by stopping violence before it happens through building a statewide integrated system that promotes respectful and healthy relationships for all Ohioans. • The SADVPP project uses a four-step public health approach: defining the problem, identifying risks and protective factors for sexual violence; developing and evaluating strategies; and broadly disseminating effective strategies. • ODH will work with fourteen local programs, the state coalition, and other partners to implement the selected strategies. • Programming is across the Social Ecological Model, with a commitment to 50% or more of strategies at the community/social level (not solely in school settings. Programming at the individual/relationship level will utilize the principles of prevention and evidence base or evidence informed curricula, adapted following CDC guidance. • Strategies at the individual/relationship level will include multi-session programs to address social norm change, teach skills to prevent violence, and provide opportunities to empower and support girls and women; engaging youth leaders to promote healthy relationships; engaging teachers and adult youth leaders; both adult lead and youth led and programs and events. • Strategies at the community/societal level will include supporting policies for workplaces and for schools/youth serving organizations; fostering community coalitions and networks; prevention programing in specific community settings and social marketing campaign or media advocacy. Strategies will be both adult led and youth led. At the state level, key activities of this cooperative agreement will be the continued development of public/private partnerships to support technical assistance and support for implementation of prevention programs, practices and policies, development of a state action plan for implementing prevention approaches corresponding with the STOP SV technical package for sexual violence prevention, developing and implementing a state level evaluation plan, identifying and tracking sexual violence indicators, and participating in CDC sponsored program support activities. Using Ohio’s data to action cycle, we will track both process and outcome measurements. Outcome measurements will be tracked primarily using the evaluation tools we have been working on with our evaluator, which measure at the individual/relationship level changes in knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors and skills and at the community/society level utilizes tools such as climate surveys and scans of shared messaging for social norms change. Information on policy change in both schools and work places will also be tracked. Over the longer period of the five year cooperative agreement, sexual violence indicators for which Ohio specific data is available and which show change in the identified risk and protective factors for sexual violence prevention will be identified and tracked.
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