How Do We Prevent?
Primary prevention of intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual assault is a systematic process promoting healthy environments and behaviors, resulting in the reduction of the likelihood and the frequency of intimate partner violence and sexual assault.
Primary prevention IS NOT:
- A one-time program or event
- One skill-building session
- One protocol
Primary prevention IS:
- Development of social norms and social environments that create, support, and sustain positive behaviors and healthy relationships
- Promotion of comprehensive and multidisciplinary approaches to preventing violence against women and girls before it occurs by impeding the development of perpetrators
Primary prevention will require true social change. Primary prevention requires on-going conversation, examples of what healthy relationships and interaction are, among other things, to make structural and social change a reality. This change will include a process of changing the attitudes and beliefs that lead to specific behaviors. It also means the acknowledgement that we cannot just accept the world the way it is and expect that the problems will go away.The following are principles for effective prevention of intimate partner violence and sexual assault:
- Focus on changing norms to change behavior
- foster comprehensive and integrated systems for prevention
- Engage community leadership / be responsive to community needs and strengths
- Promote and model positive behaviors
- Invites men as stakeholders
- Emphasize role of bystander intervention
- Focus on risk factors and assets
- Build on existing assets and efforts
We Provide:
SHRCC’s staff are trained experts in providing education, training, and prevention programs to youth and adults. We believe in starting early with youth by implementing multi-session prevention programs that promote healthy relationships and bystander intervention. Our goal is to eliminate the root causes of domestic and sexual violence by stopping it before it occurs. By engaging youth in prevention efforts, we believe it will help to change social norms and attitudes that tolerate and condone violence.
College Prevention Programs
Prevention Strategies include:
- Engaging Men and Boys
- Engaging Youth
- Bystander Intervention
- Individual
- Interpersonal
- Community
- Societal
Prevention Programs/Education Programs Available:
- Primary Prevention for Elementary, Middle, and High School
- Bystander Intervention
- Campus Sexual Assault Prevention
- Community/School Health Fairs
- Professional Trainings