Wednesday, April 2, 2025
4/2/2025
Rape Prevention and Education - With the CE24-0027 funding, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) will continue efforts to prevent first-time sexual violence (SV) perpetration and victimization. Building on Washington’s current SV prevention capacity and infrastructure, DOH will collaborate with coalitions and other partners to continue prioritizing strategies that impact underserved communities and advance health equity. Understanding that some communities and populations face disproportionately high burdens of SV due to systemic inequities, Washington partners will focus on addressing connected social and structural determinants of health (SSDOH). To achieve this, SV prevention activities will aim to decrease risk factors and increase protective factors specifically associated with the perpetration of SV. Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) program implementation at the state and local level will be informed by CDC’s Veto Violence publication, Sexual Violence Prevention Resource for Action (2016). DOH will collaborate with coalitions and other partners to implement the following CDC prioritized strategies: 1) increase DOH’s and partner organizations’ capacity to implement and evaluate health equity-centered SV primary prevention strategies at the community- and societal-levels of the Social Ecology Model; 2) update and implement the state action plan to support increased and diversified multi-sector partnerships that align prevention efforts with identified priorities; 3) support the implementation of community-level prevention strategies that address SSDOH among groups with disproportionately high rates of SV; and 4) ensure that data is readily accessible to both increase the understanding of SSDOH inequities and to monitor and evaluate prevention activities that seek to address these inequities. Progress toward achieving the key RPE goals will be gauged with an evaluation and performance measurement plan that includes process and outcome indicators. Short term outcomes include increases in: capacity to implement and evaluate primary prevention of SV at the community- and societal- levels; capacity to incorporate health equity program activities; partner awareness of state efforts to prevent SV and effective primary prevention strategies; coordination among partners to prevent SV; implementation of strategies among communities with disproportionately high rates of SV that seek to prevent SV by addressing SSDOH; access to and use of data to understand inequities; and use of data to monitor and evaluate SV prevention activities. Intermediate outcomes include increases in: capacity for statewide program implementation and SV prevention; partner support to implement, evaluate, and adapt state- and community-level strategies; prevention strategies that impact communities with disproportionately high rates of SV; number of community- and societal-level strategies that promote health equity and reduce inequities in SV by addressing SSDOH; protective factors and decreases in risk factors associated with SV; use of data-driven decision making to reduce inequities; and monitoring of trends in SV outcomes and SSDOH. Long-term outcomes include decreases in rates of SV perpetration and victimization at the state level, particularly in communities disproportionately burdened with high rates of SV, and reductions of inequities in SSDOH that impact disparities in SV rates.
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