Evidence & Research

National Prevention Scan Data Report

Supporting Survivors of IPV with Brain Injuries

Healthy Relationships Toolkit (HeaRT)

Prevention Resources for Action

CDC’s Prevention Resources for Action provide evidence-based strategies to guide states and communities in preventing violence. These resources combine proven approaches aimed at changing behaviors and environments across multiple sectors to improve public health and safety

Intimate Partner Violence & Caregiver Abuse Screening

This guideline outlines best practices for screening women of reproductive age for intimate partner violence and emphasizes the need for referrals to effective, ongoing support

Prevent Youth Substance Use

CDC’s ENGAGE resource outlines six evidence-based strategies to prevent youth substance use by strengthening families, schools, communities, and healthcare systems. It offers adaptable approaches, backed by research, to delay initiation, reduce risks, and build supportive environments for youth well-being.

Getting Started With Community-Engaged Research

Practical strategies to help researchers integrate community-engaged research into their work

Greening: A Violence Prevention and Reduction Strategy

Resources to build practitioner toolkits to make the case for Greening in their violence prevention work

Building Bridges Across the California Ecosystem

White paper outlining steps that communities can take to work toward a future free from gender-based violence

Place Matters

Paper examining how the built and natural environments interact to shape lifelong physical and mental health

Building Equity into Safer States

Resource to help violence preventionists enhance health equity leadership, partnerships, & programs

Connecting Dots Between Health Equity & Anti-Oppression

Key themes and guidance from NSVRC's national needs assessment

Healing Indigenous Lives

Report on Native youth-led town halls highlighting reflections on safety, challenges, and calls to action

Economic Justice as Violence Prevention

Strategies for increasing economic equity across sectors to prevent violence

Back to Basics

Connects health equity to prevention work by centering survivors at the intersections of racism, violence, & oppression

Uniting Isolated Voices

Roadmap on the strategies needed to achieve greater equity for girls and gender expansive youth of color

Health Equity Approach to Preventing SV

Publication exploring how practitioners and communities can employ a health equity approach to prevention

Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences

Collection of strategies to prevent ACEs and ensure safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments

Continuing the Dialogue

Explores lessons learned over the past 15 years and highlights paths forward for the prevention field

Respect Women

Evidence-based strategies for policymakers to take action to prevent violence against women

Illustrating Our Prevention Story

ICADV's storybook offers lessons learned from the last ten years of prevention work in Indiana

Head Start Trauma Smart

Promotes systemic trauma awareness in communities, teaching resiliency and practical lifelong coping skills

Toward Community Health and Justice

Summarizes key findings and theories from PreventConnect's 2017 webinar series

Multiplying Outcomes in Place-Based Initiatives

Highlights points of collaboration for community development, early childhood, and violence prevention sectors

Preventing IPV Across the Lifespan

Compilation of evidence-based IPV prevention strategies that address each level of social ecology

Health Equity & Multisector Approach

Provides multisector health equity framework to DV prevention

Shared Risk & Protective Factors

Outlines key research on risk and protective factors and explores implications for prevention

Young Women's Initiative

Participatory strategy for investing in the future of young women and girls in NYC

Connecting the Dots

Connects forms of violence and supports strategic thinking that considers culture and community context

11 Ways to Boost Your Work with News Media

Guide focused on working with news media around prevention-focused messaging

Doing Evaluation Differently

Guide to support practitioners in the growing field of primary prevention practice

Adolescent Boys and Young Men

Highlights the importance of engaging boys and men in efforts for gender equality and sexual/reproductive health and rights

STOP SV

Compilation of a core strategies to reduce the overall incidence of sexual violence based on the best available evidence

Prevent Violence NC

Cooperative statewide effort encouraging coordinated violence prevention initiatives across North Carolina

Working with Men & Boys

Outlines strategies and next steps for engaging men in initiatives that promote gender equality

Key Findings: Primary Prevention Strategies

Explanation of findings from "A Systemic Review of Primary Prevention Strategies for Sexual Violence Perpetration"

Engaging Men on Campus

Lessons from OVW Campus Program grantees' experiences fostering men as allies in prevention

Community Resilience Cookbook

Compilation of lessons learned and an interactive tool for fostering collective impact to build resilient communities

Involved Fatherhood Project

Explores the positive roles of fathers and fatherhood programs in promoting gender equality and healthy relationships

Taking Action

DELTA and EMPOWER grantees lessons learned, successes, challenges and outcomes

Why and How

Study to understand how men’s understanding of masculinity shapes their identity and relationships

Ten Men

Program mobilizing male community leaders to work within their spheres of influence to prevent domestic violence

Male Attitudes Survey

A broad survey of Vermont men uncovering their attitudes towards domestic and sexual violence

Healthy Sexuality Approaches

Report on the top curriculum-based healthy sexuality programs

Social Determinants of Health

Best practices to facilitate conversations on social determinants of health

Evaluation for Improvement

Manual to help organizations work with an empowerment evaluator

Exploring Masculinity and Violence

Findings and recommendations from a participatory learning and action project