Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
Rape Prevention and Education: Using The Best Available Evidence for Sexual Violence Prevention - With the CE19-1902 funding, the Washington State Department of Health will continue efforts toward the prevention of first time sexual violence perpetration and victimization. Washington State has historically prioritized two approaches to address the root causes of sexual violence and to shift the culture of perpetration: changing social norms and building skills to engage in effective prevention efforts. Both approaches guide strategy implementation at the local level and align with STOP SV: A Technical Package to Prevent Sexual Violence. The following five norms outlined by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s publication titled Sexual Violence and The Spectrum of Prevention: Toward a Community Solution (Davis, et. al. 2006) have and continue to be the focus for Washington’s prevention efforts. The five norms are: 1. Women: limited roles for and objectification and oppression of women. 2. Power: value placed on claiming and maintaining power (manifested as power over). 3. Violence: tolerance of aggression and attribution of blame to victims. 4. Masculinity: traditional constructs of manhood, including domination, control, and risktaking. 5. Privacy: notions of individual and family privacy that foster secrecy and silence. By continuing to challenge these norms, we will address root causes of sexual violence and shift our culture to create healthier, more sustainable behaviors for individuals and communities. As a result of this funding, DOH will achieve a decrease in selected risk factors and an increase in selected protective factors associated with the perpetration of sexual violence. Short term outcomes include: increased 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; increased data-driven decision-making for program selection; an increased number of process and outcome evaluation activities implemented from the state evaluation; and an increased percentage of community/societal-level approaches implemented. Intermediate outcomes include: increased use of partnerships to implement community level strategies and improve coordination of state SV prevention efforts; use of data driven decision making for program delivery; use of indicator data to track implementation and outcomes; and environmental and community changes that result from selected community- level strategies. To achieve these outcomes, Washington will implement the following CDC prioritized strategies: identify and establish public/private partnerships, update our state action plan, update and implement our state-level evaluation plan, identify and track SV indicators, participate in CDC-sponsored program support activities and implement prevention strategies in local communities.
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