Wednesday, April 2, 2025
4/2/2025
Utah Rape Prevention and Education - Sexual violence (SV) presents a significant public health problem in Utah. An estimated one in three Utah women (31.1%) experience SV victimization during their lifetime. The data highlight disparities in SV experience among multiracial, Native American and LGBTQ+ communities as well as unemployed and low-income populations. UDHHS, VIPP will build upon lessons learned from prior RPE funding cycles to expand its efforts to prevent SV at the community and societal levels of the SEM including poverty and discrimination. Ultimately, Utah seeks to reduce SV by reducing risk factors and increasing protective factors associated with SV. The short term and intermeidat outcomes include; increased capacity to implement and evaluate primary prevention of SV at the community- and societal- levels within DHHS; increased capacity to promote and incorporate HE program activities relevant to SV prevention among partner organizations; increased partner awareness of states/territories efforts to prevent SV; increased partner and community awareness of effective primary prevention strategies and the disparate burden of SV; increased coordination and collaboration among partners and between SHDs, SA coalitions, Tribal SA coalitions, representatives from underserved communities and other sectors to prevent SV; increased community-level implementation of SV prevention strategies; increased implementation of prevention strategies among communities and populations with disproportionately high rates of SV; increased implementation of prevention strategies that seek to prevent SV by addressing social and structural determinants of health; increased capacity for statewide program implementation and SV prevention; increased partner support to implement, evaluate, and adapt state- and community-level strategies to prevent SV; increased reach of prevention strategies that impact communities and populations with disproportionately high rates of SV; increase in the number of community- and societal-level strategies that promote health equity and reduce inequities in SV by addressing social and structural determinants of health; increase in protective factors and decrease in risk factors associated with SV; increased use of data-driven decision making to reduce inequities impacting populations and communities with disproportionately high rates of SV; increased state and community-level monitoring of trends in SV outcomes and SDOH. VIPP will leverage its various partnerships to implement approaches that address the strategies and focus areas of this grant. VIPP excels at multi-sectoral collaboration. Through years of experience and working in the field of SV, partnerships and collaborations have been sustained across UDHHS, with other state agencies, SA and DV partners, private entities, and coalitions, as well as local governments and community-based organizations.
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).