Thursday, April 3, 2025
4/3/2025
Montana Sexual Violence Prevention and Victim Services Program - The mission of the Montana Sexual Violence Prevention and Victim Services Program (SVPVS) is to reduce the statewide incidences of sexual violence by ensuring prevention efforts reach the people who are most impacted in the state. This is achieved through a health equity approach that focuses on: 1) increasing capacity for statewide program implementation and sexual violence (SV) prevention; 2) increasing partner support to implement, evaluate and adapt community level strategies; 3) increase the number of societal-level strategies that reduce inequities in SV by addressing social and structural determinants of health; and 4) increase use of data-driven decision making to reduce inequities impacting populations with higher rates of SV. The Montana SVPVS Program will advance this mission by: continuing to build and strengthen internal program capacity to facilitate and monitor the implementation of the prevention programs; develop a state action plan in collaboration with the state and tribal sexual assault coalitions, implement community- and societal-level prevention approaches in higher education institutions that focus on populations most impacted by SV, and utilize data to inform and strengthen approaches by gathering and synthesizing publicly available state- and community-level data to track rates of SV in priority populations. SVPVS will work with state SV coalition members, local health departments, educational institutes, tribal leaders, and other stakeholders to implement and evaluate health equity SV prevention programs, practices, and policies. As a result of these activities, community and environmental improvements are expected, including: 1) increased capacity to promote health equity; 2) increase partner and community awareness of effective prevention strategies, and 3) increased community-level implementation of SV prevention strategies that reach high-burden communities. These changes are expected to culminate in increases in protective factors and decreases in risk factors related to SV, ultimately leading to decreasing the rates of SV perpetration and victimization in Montana.
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