Mississippi Rape Prevention and Education Project: Primary Prevention on the Community and Societal Levels of the Social-Ecological Model (SEM). - State of Mississippi: Project Abstract Summary CDC-RFA-CE-24-0027 The overall purpose of the Mississippi Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) program is to decrease rates of sexual violence (SV) perpetration and victimization. The MS RPE program will strive to address the prevalence of sexual violence occurring in the state of Mississippi and to ultimately reduce the incidence of such violence. In alignment with the RPE NOFO, the purpose of the MSDH RPE program will be to: ● Continue to build program and partner capacity to facilitate and monitor the implementation of sexual violence prevention programs, practices, and policies. ● Continue to support state and territorial health department’s implementation of community-and societal-level programs, practices, and policies to prevent sexual violence. ● Continue to support the implementation of data-driven, comprehensive, evidence-based sexual violence primary prevention strategies, and approaches focused mainly on health equity ● Continuously conduct data-to-action activities to inform changes or adaptations to existing sexual violence strategies or on selected and implemented additional strategies. Mississippi will utilize the health equity approach to impact the community and societal levels of the social-ecological model. More specifically, the Office Against Interpersonal Violence leadership will promote health equity and prevent sexual violence to achieve the stated long-term outcomes of: ● decrease in rates of SV, particularly in communities disproportionately burdened with high rates of SV, ● decrease in rates of SV perpetration and victimization at the state or territory level, and ● reduce inequalities in MSDH that impact disparities in SV rates.
