Wednesday, April 2, 2025
4/2/2025
Kansas Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Program - The Kansas Department of Health and Environment's Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Program will prevent sexual violence through primary prevention that is based on current best practices, data, evaluation, and participatory action research findings. Strategies will address risk factors that influence sexual violence perpetration and protective factors that decrease the risk for seal violence. Strategies in Kansas will include: 1)Enhance the state action plan with the established relationship with the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence. 2)Fund 4-5 community coalitions selected through a request for applications requesting strategies addressing strengthening economic supports, creating protective environments, and promoting social norms that protect against violence. 3)Leverage relationship between the Kansas SVPE and Essentials for Childhood initiative to support family-friendly work place policy efforts to strengthen economic supports. 4)Partner with and fund The University of Kansas's Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center to implement environmental design and strategic prevention implementation efforts to create protective environments. 5)Fund Jana's Campaign to implement Futures Without Violence curriculum Coaching Boys into Men and Athletes as Leaders to promote social norms that protect against violence in 8 schools per school year. 6)Survey partners for data needs to inform a data dashboard to be developed by KDHE SVPE Program. 7)Collect data through the Community Check Box evaluation system monitored by the University of Kansas' Center for Community Health and Development. This work will be working towards the outcome of increasing protective factors and decreasing risk factors associated with sexual violence. The staff and partners of the SVPE program will work vigorously to achieve increased capacity to implement and evaluate primary prevention of Sexual Violence at the community- and societal- levels within the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to increase partner support, and reach for communities and populations with disproportionately high rates of sexual violence for Kansas program implementation and SV prevention. Kansas will increase the use of data-driven decision making and community-level monitoring of trends in sexual violence outcomes and Social Determinates of Health.
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