CDC Announces Awards for Preventing
Adult-Perpetrated Child Sexual Abuse
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is pleased to announce two awards, RFA-CE-20-005, Rigorously Evaluating Approaches to Prevent Adult-Perpetrated Child Sex Abuse (CSA). The recipients will rigorously evaluate approaches (programs, policies, or practices) for their impact on the primary prevention of CSA perpetrated by adults. Research funded under this announcement will strengthen the evidence base for primary prevention of adult-perpetrated CSA.
CDC awarded a total of $766,367 to two recipients. The awardees will be funded for four years. The recipients are: Help Wanted: Evaluating a Prevention Intervention for People with Sexual Interest in Children Principal Investigator: Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau, Johns Hopkins University |
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Primary prevention of CSA perpetrated by adults is a significant public health objective with limited available research evidence. This project will evaluate the Help Wanted Prevention Intervention, a theoretically and empirically informed online approach addressing adult men with sexual interest in children. The intervention includes an introductory welcome page, five training sessions that deliver core intervention content, and a resources page that provides links to external sources of support. It seeks to prevent CSA perpetration and provide help-seekers with tools to better support their well-being. Through a randomized controlled trial, the project team will evaluate the effects of Help Wanted on men’s perpetration behaviors, grooming behaviors, proclivity to perpetrate, and engagement with help-seeking to stop perpetration; examine psychosocial stressors as potential mediators and moderators; and refine the intervention using study findings. This is the first project to rigorously evaluate an online, prevention intervention for adults with sexual interest in children.
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Rigorously Evaluating Approaches to Prevent Adult-Perpetrated Child Sex Abuse
Principal Investigator: Dr. Charol Shakeshaft, Virginia Commonwealth University |
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CSA perpetrated by school employees is an overlooked public health issue with a lack of rigorously evaluated interventions to reduce child victimization. This study will evaluate Praesidium’s Armatus® Learn to Protect program, a program focused on the prevention of school employee-perpetrated CSA, misconduct, and exploitation of students. The intervention educates adults about enforcing school policies, monitoring staff, hiring and screening new employees, and addressing sexual and physical boundary crossing. The multisite, randomized controlled trial will include 95 school districts and examine official records and self-reports of school employee CSA and boundary-crossing behaviors as primary outcomes. Results of this study will provide the first rigorous evidence for a prevention program focused on school employee-perpetrated CSA of students.
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