Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
Rape Prevention and Education: Using The Best Available Evidence for Sexual Violence Prevention - Louisiana Rape Prevention and Education Attachment A NOFO# CDC-RFA-CE19-1902 Project Abstract Summary The CDC’s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) state report estimates that 523,000 women and 359,000 men in Louisiana have experienced contact sexual violence (including rape and attempted rape) over the course of their lifetime. Louisiana’s sexual assault service providers consistently serve more than 8,000 primary victims per year and additional secondary victims – partners, friends, and family members of survivors. The Louisiana Department of Health/Office of Public Health/Bureau of Family Health (LDH/OPH/BFH) is the grantee for Louisiana’s Rape Prevention Education (RPE) funding. The RPE grant aligns well with BFH’s violence and injury prevention priorities, systems improvements, and policy advancement. BFH works closely with the state sexual assault coalition and allied agencies to implement sexual violence prevention programming at the state and local levels. The Louisiana RPE Program aims to change the attitudes that lead to sexual violence and educate the public on the short and long-term effects sexual violence has on survivors. Louisiana will increase its use of data to select local sexual assault centers as sub-recipients and the identification of appropriate programs for identified risk and protective factors. By using a public health approach that spans multiple levels of the Social Ecological Model (SEM), Louisiana intends to decrease the risk factors for sexual violence and increase the protective factors for prevention. Louisiana plans to implement at least 50% of our strategies at the community/societal-level in order to have the greatest potential to reduce the rates of sexual violence perpetration and victimization. Louisiana is submitting this application for Category A funding to increase collaboration across private-public partnerships and to improve implementation and evaluation of primary prevention at the community and societal level. Louisiana will expand collaboration by developing and operationalizing a State Action Plan, a State Evaluation Plan, and supporting local program implementation and evaluation. Through state action planning, partners will review the risk and protective factors that will be the focus of Louisiana’s prevention programming. There will be an emphasis on shared risk and protective factors such as increasing employment and economic stability and community support and connectedness. Collaboration is essential to increasing the effectiveness and the capacity of Louisiana’s sexual violence prevention efforts. The BFH, the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault (LaFASA) and the regional sexual assault centers have worked together as a team since 1983 to mitigate sexual violence in Louisiana. Overall, these partners have demonstrated capacity to manage the RPE funding, proposed activities, including continuous improvement in the delivery of community level sexual violence prevention, and evaluate the RPE initiative. RPE funding continuation is vital to the ongoing success of Louisiana’s sexual violence surveillance and prevention efforts, and reflects the State’s continued commitment to addressing multiple forms of violence impacting our communities.
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).