Prevention

Close to Home – Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative – the mission is to foster community-wide responsibility to prevent and reduce the impact of domestic violence. We are building and supporting networks of community residents and organizations in local neighborhoods that want to take action and address the problem of domestic violence together. Close to Home believes that domestic violence is a critical community issue that all community members – youth, residents, families, friends, neighbors, civic leaders, and organizational partners – are essential to designing and implementing the solutions to the problem, Dorchester, MA.

Community Tool Box – this website provides practical skill-building information on over 250 different topics to support work in promoting community health and development. Topic sections cover leadership, strategic planning, community assessment, grant writing, and evaluation, to give just a few examples. Each section includes a description of the task, advantages of doing it, step-by-step guidelines, examples, checklists of points to review, and training materials. The Tool Box is created and maintained by the Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS.

Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – seeks to reduce the incidence (i.e., the number of new cases) of intimate partner violence in funded communities. The program addresses the entire continuum of intimate partner violence from episodic violence to battering through a variety of activiteis, Atlanta, GA. Funded states.

The Empower Program – we believe that bullying, harassment, exclusion, teasing and other rites of adolescent passage represent the root causes of violence and that these behaviors can lead to more extreme and visible forms of violence. Our curriculum, Owning Up©, is designed to teach young people how they can be leaders in preventing violence. The Empower Program also offers opportunities for parents and teachers to learn how they can help work with young people to create safe and healthy communities, Washington, DC.

Interpersonal Violence Prevention Information Center – the purpose of this site is to disseminate the work of Dr. Paul Schewe. His work ranges from basis research identifying factors associated with sexual assault victimziation and perpetration, to developing preventive interventions, to using evaluation and dissemination strategies to further develop existing interpersonal violence prevention programs for agencies, communities, and statewide networks of service providers. The focus of his research includes sexual assault, teen dating violence, domestic violence, and early childhood interventions to promote positive social-emotional development, Chicago, IL.

Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence Prevention, Prevention Institute – founded in 1997 to address complex health and social issues. We move beyond approaches that target individuals, one person at a time, to create systematic, comprehensive strategies that change the conditions that impact community health. The organization builds on the successes of a variety of fields and applies them to new challenges in fields such as injury and violence prevention, traffic safety, health disparities, nutrition and physical activity, and youth development, Oakland, CA.

National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center – is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This website is designed to be useful to scientists, practitioners, advocates, grassroots organizations, and any other professional or lay person interested in current topics related to violence against women and its prevention.

National Violence Prevention Network – a broad-based coalition of national organizations dedicated to violent death prevention by advocating for the full implementation of the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) in the United States. Network members work together to generate support for NVDRS among policy-makers, the general public and other national organizations by educating them on the benefits of placing multi-source incident data collected on violent deaths in a central, state-level repository. Such activity would enable each state to design and implement prevention programs aimed at combating violence deaths.

Prevent – Preventing Violence through Education, Networking and Technical Assistance, University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center and North Carolina Institute for Public Health – designed to facilitate the change process by providing education, networking and technical assistance to help individuals and organizations nationwide reduce violence through local, state, tribal and national approaches, Chapel Hill, NC.

Prevention Connection: The Violence Against Women Prevention Partnership, California Coalition Against Sexual Assault – building the capacity of local, state, national and tribal agencies and organizations to develop, implement and evaluate effective violence against women prevention initiatives, Sacramento, CA.

Prevention Researcher – has evolved into a quarterly journal providing evidence and results-based research articles focused on adolescents that are applicable for real-life situations. Designed as a science-to-service connection, each issue focuses on a single topic, providing in-depth information written in a straightforward style by top researchers. In addition to our quarterly issues (published each February, April, September and November), we also produce an annual Resource Issue. This issue is filled with Q & As, interviews, website and book reviews, a cumulative subject index and other prevention-related resources.

Sexual Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

Sexual Violence Prevention, Minnesota Department of Health – the exists to help people and organizations find effective ways to prevent sexual violence. We work to ensure that Minnesota's efforts are coordinated and represent best practices in prevention, St. Paul, MN.

Sexual Violence Prevention, Virginia Department of Health – the Center supports local sexual assault centers to offer prevention education in the local communities through funding and technical assistance. The Center collects and analyzes data on the prevalence of sexual violence, provides training and develops and promotes resources. The Center provides outreach to males to encourage involvement in the issue and addresses the problem of statutory rape through training, education and a public awareness campaign, Richmond, VA.

Texas Association Against Sexual Assault – Prevention – the resources available on this website are meant to provide tools, information, and guidance to rape crisis centers and other organizations and individuals who are interested in building communities that are free from sexual violence, Austin, TX.

Transforming Communities – a national leader in the creation of contemporary, community-based approached to preventing violence against women and girls. By developing and implementing prevention campaigns and by disseminating best practices through trainings and publications, TC advances the prevention agenda, particularly within the domestic violence field. Drawing from the experience of effective social movements and the public health model of prevention, TC fosters sustainable change by building community ownership, promoting individual transfomration, and fundamentally shifting the social norms that condone or support violence against women, San Rafael, CA.

Violence Is Preventable – a multi award winning abuse prevention programme for children, young people and vulnerable adults throughout the UK..It works on three levels: 1) early disclosures – meaning abuse is stopped sooner; 2) staying safe – avoiding violent or abusive situations; and 3) changing the mindset of potential abusers of the future, Dundee, Scotland, UK.

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