Sexual Violence Content Topic Results

This toolkit provides guidance to local primary prevention providers on all stages of program evaluation including determining needs, resources, and capacity, stating outcomes and developing a logic model, and collecting, managing, and analyzing evaluation data.

This handbook was created to provide guidance to attorneys so that they can help survivors achieve their civil legal objectives when trauma or other mental health challenges are a potential factor in a case.

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.

Sexual violence prevention programs led by youth often use a peer education model. NRCDV's December 2011 TA Question of the Month discusses the value of youth-led prevention programming.

This tip sheet provides information on the ways that experiencing abuse can affect the mental health of survivors. Tips on how to seek support for oneself, or a loved one who is being abused, are also included.

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 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 page presents the various theories guiding the work of Men Can Stop Rape, including explanations for Bystander Intervention, Socio-Ecological Model for Prevention, Social and Emotional Learning Theory, and Dominant Stories and Counter-stories of Masculinity.

This report reviews findings from an assessment of the life circumstances of Native women in prostitution in Minnesota, a group of women not previously studied in research such as this.

This paper clarifies the distinctions between bullying and harassment and the priorities and responsibilities of school districts, explores the unintended consequences of ignoring the gendered dimensions of bullying and harassment in K-12 schools, and suggests helpful strategies for advocates collaborating with school personnel and students.

The author reviews available research on perceptions held by the general public about sexual violence and how they have changed over time. She also makes recommendations for future practice, which include discussing the root causes of sexual violence and addressing subtle victim blaming.