Publication

National Prevention Scan Data Report

Supporting Survivors of IPV with Brain Injuries

Healthy Relationships Toolkit (HeaRT)

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.

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

Respect That Action Guide

This guide inspires teens to respect that healthy love means setting boundaries, practicing consent, and speaking up against abuse

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.

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

Mental Health Support for Black Families

This study by the Child Mind Institute and The Steve Fund explores the mental health experiences of Black families and youth, highlighting barriers to care and offering strategies to improve access, equity, and cultural responsiveness

Message Matters

This document offers strategies for engaging with communities about health equity by aligning messages with the values of specific audiences

Getting Started With Community-Engaged Research

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

Northern NY Call2Men

Community-based engaging-men initiative based in upstate New York

Fostering Community Resilience

Guidelines for local communities to identify and dismantle the root causes of sexual and domestic violence

Economic Supports for Safe and Thriving Communities

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

Language Justice Toolkit

Resource for those committed to building movements where people can communicate across languages

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

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

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

Campus Horticulture Toolkit

Toolkit exploring the connection between community gardens and campus-based sexual violence prevention

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

Building Healthy Relationships with Media

Guidance on how to teach children media literacy

Collective Power

Roadmap to building collaborative relationships with community partners within and outside the anti-violence movement

Anti-Racist Policymaking

Introduces a policy framework to highlight approaches with the potential to promote Black families’ and babies’ well-being

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

Connected Kids

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

Stories of Our Collective Future

Tools to encourage youth to share stories and learn from each other

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

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

Teaching for Black Lives

Resources for educators to make Black lives matter in curriculum, teaching, and school policy

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

School Anti-Harassment Policy

Sample anti-harassment policy for use in schools

Password: Consent

Campaign to prevent sexual violence on college campuses

Multiplying Outcomes in Place-Based Initiatives

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

Consent Campaign Guidebook

Guidebook for middle and high school educators and students

Expanding Partnerships & Linkages

Report on the value of collaborating with social justice movements and other community partners to achieve shared goals

Preventing IPV Across the Lifespan

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

Resistance 101

Introductory lesson for students on historical figures who resisted injustice

Health Equity & Multisector Approach

Provides multisector health equity framework to DV prevention

MenCare

Global fatherhood campaign to promote men’s involvement as equitable caregivers in order to achieve gender equality and family well-being

Awareness + Action = Social Change

This formula calls on communities to be an active part of ending gender-based violence

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

Start with Respect

Promotes positive male behavior with tips for young men on how to start a respectful relationship with women

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

Live Respect

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

Open Minds to Equality

Activities to help students address inequalities based on race, gender, class, age, language, sexual orientation, ability, and religion

Our Gender Revolution

Explores concepts of gender and inequality to engage young people as social change agents

Working with Men & Boys

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

Media Literacy

Ideas and tools to build media literacy skills and engage communities in meaningful dialogue to end sexual violence

Key Findings: Primary Prevention Strategies

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

Community Readiness for Change

Step-by-step instructions for conducting readiness assessments or effective program development and planning

Engaging Men on Campus

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

Engaging Boys and Men

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

Building Beloved Community

Supports community-based organizations in integrating Beloved Community principles into their work

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

The Amazing Brain

Reviews early brain development, the effects of trauma on the brain, and the potential for the brain to heal and grow

Taking Action

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

DO YOU

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

Why and How

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

Leading Local Government Change

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

How's Your Relationship?

Conversation cards to spark discussions about healthy relationships

Railroaders Against Violence Everywhere

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

Healthy Relationships Workshop

Workshop for grades 6-12 on defining boundaries, self-esteem, relationships, consent, and communication

Moving Upstream

Quarterly newsletter highlighting prevention theory and practice

Male Attitudes Survey

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

Embracing Prevention as Social Change

Guide for local programs to build organizational capacity for primary prevention activities

Healthy Sexuality Approaches

Report on the top curriculum-based healthy sexuality programs

Finding the Perfect Shade of Change

Guidance for practitioners on building effective community-based prevention strategies

Toward Healthy and Whole

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

Youth Activist Prevention Toolkit

Toolkit for youth activists to prevent teen dating violence in their communities and schools

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

Social Determinants of Health

Best practices to facilitate conversations on social determinants of health

Shifting Boundaries

Middle school-based program to promote healthy boundaries and prevent sexual harassment and dating violence.

Ohio Pathways in Prevention

Eight year statewide prevention plan for Ohio

Lessons from Literature

Designed to extend and enrich the core curriculum for literature

Evaluation for Improvement

Manual to help organizations work with an empowerment evaluator

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

Ugly Ducklings

Anti-bullying action campaign for LGBTQ youth

SHARE Workshop

Workshop for grades 6-12 focuses on gender role stereotypes and the dynamics of sexual harassment

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

Prevención de la Violencia Juvenil

Analiza la efectividad de prácticas específicas en cuatro áreas principales

In Touch With Teens

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

Men’s Gender Awareness Workshop

Workshop to raise men's awareness about the impact of societal gender norms