National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Content Topic Results

This letter highlights NISVS findings emphasizing that sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence are widespread and a major public health problem in the United States.

This toolkit contains creative ideas and examples that CDC’s partners, grantees, and other groups can use leading up to and following the release of NISVS data.

This fact sheet shares highlights and summary information from the 2010 NISVS report, which provides detailed information on the magnitude and characteristics of these forms of violence for the nation and for individual states.

NISVS is an ongoing, nationally representative random digit dial telephone survey that collects information about experiences of sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence among non-institutionalized English and/or Spanish-speaking women and men aged 18 or older in the United States. NISVS provides detailed information on the magnitude and characteristics of these forms of violence for the nation and for individual states.

This executive summary shares key findings from the 2010 NISVS report, which provides detailed information on the magnitude and characteristics of these forms of violence for the nation and for individual states.

This online course teaches key concepts of primary prevention, the public health approach, and the social-ecological model.

This guide enables researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers to determine whether or not a prevention program, practice, or policy is actually achieving the outcomes it aims to and in the way it intends. The more rigorous a studys research deÎsign, (e.g., randomized control trials, quasi-experimental designs), the more compelling the research evidence.

This fact sheet defines bullying, provides statistics on its prevalence, reviews risk factors and prevention strategies, and recommends resources for more information.

This free, online VetoViolence course provides educators with a basic knowledge of teen dating violence prevention.

"Adding Power to Our Voices is designed to help organizations involved in injury and violence prevention and response speak with a consistent voice to build the social and political will needed to save lives and reduce injuries. The basis of the Framing Guide is that the collective voice of many injury and violence professionals across several disciplines is much louder than that of an individual or single organization. "We want a society where people can live to their full potential.'

The items on this fact sheet provide evidence of the large health and economic burden of violence in the US as reported in: Corso PS, Mercy JA, Simon TR, Finkelstein EA, & Miller TR. Medical Costs and Productivity Losses Due to Interpersonal Violence and Self- Directed Violence. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2007: 32(6): 474-482.

Assessment tools that may be of particluar for those working to end violence against women are highlighted below.