Wednesday, March 12, 2025
3/12/2025
The goal of the Ohio Sexual Violence Prevention and Education program under the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Prevention Program (SADVPP) is to decrease rates of sexual violence perpetration and victimization in Ohio, to be accomplished by stopping violence before it happens through building a statewide integrated system that promotes respectful and healthy relationships for all Ohioans. • The SADVPP project uses a four-step public health approach: defining the problem, identifying risks and protective factors for sexual violence; developing and evaluating strategies; and broadly disseminating effective strategies. • ODH will work with eleven local programs, the state coalition, and other partners to implement the selected strategies. • Programming is across the Social Ecological Model, with a commitment to strategies at the outer levels of the social ecological model. • Strategies at the community/societal level will include supporting policies for workplaces and for schools/youth serving organizations; fostering community coalitions and networks; prevention programing in specific community settings and social marketing campaign or media advocacy. In the first year of the award we will explore strategies for implementation related to strengthening economic supports. Strategies will be both adult led and youth led. At the state level, key activities of this cooperative agreement will be the continued development of public/private partnerships to support technical assistance and support for implementation of prevention programs, practices and policies, development of a state action plan for implementing prevention approaches corresponding with the three identified focus areas, developing and implementing a state level evaluation plan, identifying and tracking sexual violence indicators, and participating in CDC sponsored program support activities. Using Ohio’s data to action cycle, we will track both process and outcome measurements. Outcome measurements will be tracked primarily using the evaluation tools we have been working on with our evaluator, such as climate surveys and scans of shared messaging for social norms change. Information on policy change in both schools and work places will also be tracked. Over the longer period of the five- year cooperative agreement, sexual violence indicators for which Ohio specific data is available and which show change in the identified risk and protective factors for sexual violence prevention will be identified and tracked.
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