Promising Programs

Healing Roots

The Healing Roots Campaign, created in partnership with Intercambios, is Pennsylvania’s first Latine-focused domestic violence prevention campaign. Built through a year of relationship-building with cultural leaders and community members, it centers Latine voices and cultural values as essential to prevention and healing.

Healthy Masculinities Toolkit

The NM Healthy Masculinities Toolkit is a collection of community-informed tools designed to spark conversations, challenge harmful gender norms, and promote self-awareness and healing. It invites users to reimagine masculinity in ways that foster healthy relationships and thriving communities

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.

Fatherhood & Father Figures Curriculum

This curriculum promotes the importance of engaging fathers and father figures in early childhood systems of care. It combines stories, tools, and reflective exercises to help professionals strengthen father-focused programming and support child development across communities

Health Equity Guide

Comprehensive resource for public health departments and practitioners to plan and implement health equity

Pride Peace Prevention

Social norming campaign to cultivate a positive racial identity and foster community dialogue in order to reduce youth violence

A Theory of Change for Primary Prevention in the U.S.

Theory of Change to guide shared values & strategies for building a comprehensive prevention ecosystem

Connecting Dots Between Health Equity & Anti-Oppression

Key themes and guidance from NSVRC's national needs assessment

Preventing IPV in Rhode Island

Highlights lessons learned from prevention efforts in Rhode Island

Preventing IPV in Rhode Island

Highlights lessons learned from prevention efforts in Rhode Island

Health Equity Approach to Preventing SV

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

Making Connections Backpack

Resource library to support gendered and community-level efforts to improve mental wellbeing among men and boys

Connected Kids

Equips pediatricians to address violence prevention with families throughout stages of childhood and adolescence

Girls on the Run

Builds girls' resilience and confidence through running and building positive relationships

Bloom365

Educates and activates young people to cultivate healthy and safe relationships

Expect Respect

School-based program designed to promote safe and healthy teen relationships

Prevention Through Liberation

Explores the links between anti-oppression work and violence prevention

Head Start Trauma Smart

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

Powerful Voices

Creates brave spaces with girls of color to take charge of their own power as leaders

Consent Campaign Guidebook

Guidebook for middle and high school educators and students

Athletes As Leaders

Empowers athletes on girls' sports teams to take an active role in promoting healthy relationships and ending sexual violence

Rethinking Schools

Sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism

Girls for Gender Equity

Intergenerational organization for physical, psychological, social, and economic development of girls & women

Hardy Girls Healthy Women

Girls' empowerment program that addresses their lives in relational and social contexts

The Mask You Live In

Film follows boys & young men as they negotiate America’s narrow definition of masculinity

Start Strong Boston

Tools to start conversations around relationships, breaking up, and media messaging/influence

The Freechild Project

Impressive and inspiring database collection of youth-led activities occurring all over the world

Dating Matters

60-minute online course for those interested in improving teen health

Live Respect

Program to help mentors educate and encourage middle and high school boys to examine their attitudes and beliefs about masculinity

Stand4Respect

Social marketing campaign to engage adults and youth in conversations about respectful relationships

Key Findings: Primary Prevention Strategies

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

Engaging Boys and Men

Article describes the efforts of the MenCare+: Engaging Men in a 4 country Initiative

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

WholeSomeBodies

Curriculum for adults who have children and youth in their lives to prevent sexual violence

DO YOU

Project designed by youth-serving professionals and prevention specialists to build resilience among teens

Leading Local Government Change

Report showcases the leadership of Victorian councils (Australia) to promote gender equity and violence prevention

Railroaders Against Violence Everywhere

Replication manual for school-based primary prevention male youth engagement program model

Ten Men

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

Toward Healthy and Whole

Summarizes BBP's goals, framework, and approach for culturally-based gender transformative learning

Voices Against Violence

Curriculum designed to empower girls and boys, young women and young men to be leaders, to speak out and take action

Helping Teens Stop Violence

Prepares adults for working with young people to address violence and oppression

See Me

Interactive web based educational resource promoting positive body image for youth

Athlete Ally

Public awareness campaign and educational program that fosters inclusive sports communities

Respect Works!

Comprehensive four step approach to preventing dating violence on and off campus

Ohio Pathways in Prevention

Eight year statewide prevention plan for Ohio

Lessons from Literature

Designed to extend and enrich the core curriculum for literature

HEART Women & Girls

Culturally responsive sexual health education and gender-based violence prevention in Muslim communities

Hombres Unidos

Culturally appropriate primary prevention workshop designed for Latino migrant men over the age of 18

Be Strong: From the Inside Out

Asset-based development program for young women exploring womanhood, respect, and positive relationships

Exploring Masculinity and Violence

Findings and recommendations from a participatory learning and action project

Gardens for Growing Healthy Communities

Fostering community connectedness and well-being through community gardens

The Fourth R

Middle school curriculum designed to promote healthy and safe dating, peer relationships, and substance use

Making Allies, Making Friends

Prepare young people to build a healthy multi-cultural community and prevent violence

Making the Peace

Program for helping high school students build safer schools, relationships, and communities

Coaching Boys Into Men

Program for athletes promoting personal responsibility and respect

In Touch With Teens

This curriculum empowers youth to make informed choices that will help them engage in healthy dating relationships

Mentors in Violence Prevention

Leadership program emphasizing the role of students as empowered bystanders