Tuesday, May 13, 2025
5/13/2025
Montana Sexual Violence Prevention and Victim Services Program - The mission of the Montana Sexual Violence Prevention and Victim Services (SVPVS) Program is to reduce the statewide incidences of sexual violence (SV) through primary prevention efforts focused on influencing knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of those most at risk to perpetrate. SVPVS’s goals are to: (1) decrease rates of SV perpetration and victimization; (2) promote social norms supporting gender equity; and (3) create and maintain safe and protective environments. SVPVS will advance this mission by using a public health approach by: (1) monitoring SV indicators; (2) identifying SV risk and protective factors; (3) implementing and evaluating prevention strategies; and (4) assuring widespread dissemination of evaluation. SVPP will implement and evaluate of prevention strategies using the best available evidence across multiple levels of the Social Ecological Model (SEM). SVPP’s main objectives to support this mission will be to: (1) create and strengthen partnerships at the state and local levels to improve the coordination; (2) create, review and/or revise policies to support protective environments; and (3) increase youth’s knowledge and skills concerning healthy relationships and bystander intervention. SVPVS will work with SV coalition members, rape crisis centers, NGOs, CBOs, local health departments, educational institutes and other stakeholders to implement and evaluate SV prevention programs, practices and policies. As a result of these activities, community and environmental improvements are expected, including: (1) increased positive change in public opinion about SV; (2) increased change in behavioral intentions concerning bystander intervention; (3) increased coordination of services among communities; and (4) decrease in weak social laws and policies relating to SV and gender equity. These changes are expected to culminate in increases in protective factors and decreases in risk factors related to SV, ultimately leading to decreasing the rates of SV perpetration and victimization in Montana.
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