Thursday, April 3, 2025
4/3/2025
California Rape Prevention and Education Program - Abstract The California Department of Public Health, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB) proposes to implement activities that will build upon its efforts to maintain California’s leadership role in applying a comprehensive public health primary prevention approach to ending sexual violence (SV). The cost of SV makes it imperative that CDPH/IVPB support efforts to change the social conditions that make violence possible in the first place. To achieve this overarching aim, CDPH/IVPB’s California’s Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program will address the four goals of this funding opportunity: 1) build infrastructure for SV prevention (e.g., increase capacity to address health equity and implement community/societal-level strategies); 2) enhance its existing State Action Plan (SAP); 3) implement community/societal-level prevention approaches that promote health equity (e.g., strengthen economic supports, create protective environments, and promote social norms) in California communities; and 4) use data to inform action (e.g., track disparities and rates of SV to inform SV prevention; use data to determine communities and populations that are disproportionately impacted; use data to select and improve program strategies). Program activities will be implemented among communities representing people who are: Black; Latino/a/e; Native-American/Indigenous; Asian/Pacific Islander; LGBTQ; residents living in rural communities; experiencing low socioeconomic status; women, girls, and gender expansive; non-US-born; disabled; or have intersections of these identities. CDPH/IVPB’s RPE Program will utilize a public health approach that builds California’s capacity to implement community/societal-level strategies with a focus on health equity and the social determinants of health (SDoH) to prevent SV in high burden communities. The strategic approach of CDPH/IVPB’s RPE Program will be accomplished by supporting local sub-recipients to implement community/societal-level strategies through collaboration with state partners to support training, evaluation, use of data to understand inequities, and to enhance the current SAP. California will ensure that all required Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) outcomes are addressed within the categories of: building infrastructure for SV prevention, enhancing the SV SAP, implementing SV prevention Strategies, and using data to inform action. California is also knowledgeable and familiar with the CDC’s SV Prevention Resource for Action, the public health approach to preventing SV, and is engaged in existing efforts to prevent SV at the local and state level. Based on CDPH/IVPB’s prior experience as a RPE Program CDC-awardee, CDPH/IVPB has a strong knowledge of the current state of SV in California, existing efforts to adopt and implement SV prevention strategies, statewide violence prevention plans, as well as connection to a vast group SV partners and stakeholders. CDPH/IVPB’s knowledge and partnerships, coupled with continued receipt of funding and support from the CDC, will enable California to continue to increase state capacity to adopt and implement community/societal-level SV approaches, including use of data to identify and address health inequities. The ultimate goal will be to implement data-informed SV prevention strategies that bolster protective factors, increase health equity, and help to decrease SV perpetration and victimization rates in California.
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).