Friday, June 9, 2023
6/9/2023
The Oklahoma Rape Prevention Education Program (RPE) provides state-level guidance and coordination of activities to prevent first-time perpetration and victimization of sexual assault. The RPE program is administered by the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) Injury Prevention Service. Program components include the state-level RPE team and local community-based programs. RPE funding supports a full-time Prevention Educator in each of the local programs to conduct sexual violence prevention programs in their communities using evidence-informed strategies at multiple levels of the social ecology. The state-level RPE team provides training and technical assistance to the local sexual violence prevention programs and other organizations. During the 2019 funding period, the RPE program will develop a State Action Plan to refine the direction, target population and prevention strategies utilized in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Prevention Leadership Committee, a multi-disciplinary committee created as part of the RPE program will be maintained to assist and guide program activities. Additionally, the state-level RPE team will collaborate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, local Prevention Educators, an external evaluator, and other stakeholders to complete and implement an evaluation and performance measurement plan. The goals for the new funding period are to: 1) increase the use of partnerships to implement relationship/community-level strategies and improve coordination of state SV prevention efforts; 2) Increase use of data driven decision making for program delivery; 3) Increase use of indicator data to track implementation and outcomes; 4) Create environmental and community changes that result from selected community-level strategies; and 5) Demonstrate changes in selected risk and protective factors. Information about the Oklahoma RPE program, including related reports and publications, is available at http://svp.health.ok.gov.
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).
