Sunday, December 22, 2024
12/22/2024
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) Rape Prevention and Education Program (RI RPE) will build upon successes achieved under DP19-1901 to further increase collective capacity to support the implementation of community- and societal-level activities to prevent sexual violence (SV) statewide. RI RPE is well-positioned for the implementation of these activities after establishing the RI Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition, publishing a new State SV Action Plan, conducting internal and community-facing health equity capacity assessments, creating the Rhode Island SV Data Indicator Library, and implementing activities at the community- and societal-levels as Category B recipients under DP19-1901. Proposed activities will be focused on: (1) bolstering the statewide infrastructure and capacity for SV prevention; (2) enhancing and implementing the RI State Action Plan for SV Prevention in partnership with the RI Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition; (3) implementing SV prevention programs and policies focused on strengthening economic supports, creating protective environments, and promoting social norms that protect against violence; and (4) using data to inform action. These activities will include (1) community education on the public health impact of economic policies that support women and families and the benefits of and processes to achieve collective bargaining; (2) education and advocacy to support trans inclusive and protective policies in workplace, educational, and other settings; (3) expansion of existing SV prevention programming for adult and young men rooted in social norms theory; (4) maintenance of the RI Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition and Rhode Island Cross-Campus Learning Collaborative; and (5) maintenance and regular updating of the RI Sexual Violence Surveillance System and Data Indicator Index to support ongoing monitoring of sexual violence and health equity-related data for evaluation of activities and the development and dissemination of educational materials. These proposed activities will target the general RI population and groups at higher risk of SV perpetration and victimization including transgender youth and adults, adolescent boys and young men, women and children living in poverty, and college-age young adults as priority populations for the proposed activities. Long-term outcomes include (1) an increase in economic policies that support women and families; (2) increased number of workforces that achieve unionization or collective bargaining rights; (3) increased number of trans-protective/inclusive policies introduced and passed at the state, local, and institutional level; (4) increased engagement in SV prevention programming among young men; (5) decrease in rates of sexual violence, particularly in communities disproportionately burdened with high rates of sexual violence; (6) decrease in rates of sexual violence perpetration and victimization at the state level; and (7) reductions in inequities in social determinants of health that impact disparities in sexual violence.
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