STOP SV: A Technical Package to Prevent Sexual Violence

STOP SV: A Technical Package to Prevent Sexual Violence

CDC Announces Research Awards to Evaluate

Sexual Violence Prevention Efforts

CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention announces funding awards to 6 recipients for RFA-CE-20-001, Evaluating Practice-Based Programs, Practices, and Policies from CDC’s Rape Prevention and Education Program: Expanding the Evidence to Prevent Sexual Violence. Funded projects will rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of primary prevention programs, policies, or practices implemented by the CDC’s Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program to prevent sexual violence.

The goal of the RPE program is to strengthen sexual violence prevention efforts at the local, state, and

national levels. CDC funds health departments in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to work with rape crisis centers, state sexual assault coalitions, and others to advance sexual violence prevention. Research funded under RFA-CE-20-001 is intended to expand the evidence base for sexual violence prevention in one or more of strategies identified in CDC’s STOP SV: A Technical Package to Prevent Sexual Violence. Strategies include promoting social norms that protect against violence, provide opportunities to empower and support girls and women, and create protective environments.

The six recipients are:

Evaluation of the Youth-Centered Environmental Shift (YES!) Program to Reduce Sexual Violence in Middle Schools

Dr. Betty Bekemeier, University of Washington

RPE Partner Agencies: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Washington State Department of Health

Creating Protective Higher Education Environments for Sexual Violence Prevention: Practice-based Evidence and Evaluation

Dr. Michele Decker, Johns Hopkins University

RPE Partner Agency: Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault

Creating Protective Environments through School Policy Development

Dr. Poco Kernsmith, Wayne State University

RPE Partner Agency: Michigan Organization for Adolescent Sexual Health

Effectiveness Evaluation of ‘Step Up Step In’ (SUSI): A Campaign to Promote Social Norms Against Sexual Violence

Dr. Dennis Reidy, Georgia State University

RPE Partner Agency: Georgia Department of Public Health

Evaluating the Effects of the Bar Outreach Project in North Carolina

Dr.Marni Kan, Research Triangle Institute

RPE Partner Agency: Our VOICE

Evaluation of the Close to Home Program in California: Assessing the Impact of Community Mobilization to Prevent Sexual Violence at the Individual, Social Network, and Community Levels

Dr. Jay Silverman, University of California, San Diego

RPE Partner Agency: California Department of Public Health

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Division of Violence Prevention 2020 Research Awardees Preventing Sexual Violence