Community Engagement

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

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

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

Greening: A Violence Prevention and Reduction Strategy

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

Paid Family Leave Toolkit

Train the trainer toolkit on Paid Family Leave in California

Pride Peace Prevention

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

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

Economic Justice as Violence Prevention

Strategies for increasing economic equity across sectors to prevent violence

Getting Together for Social Justice

Variety of resources to address the root causes of all forms of violence

Collective Power

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

Back to Basics

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

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

Human Trafficking Prevention Toolkit

Toolkit offering strategies for reframing human trafficking prevention efforts to be truly equitable and trauma-informed

Stories of Our Collective Future

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

We Choose All of Us

Campaign promoting self-reflection, community connection, and storytelling

Bloom365

Educates and activates young people to cultivate healthy and safe relationships

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

Live Respect on Campus

Helps students organize effectively to create a campus culture of respect, equity, and value for all

Toward Community Health and Justice

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

#1Thing Action Guide

Preventing domestic violence requires the collective voice and power of individuals, families, institutions, and systems

Password: Consent

Campaign to prevent sexual violence on college campuses

Sport + Prevention Center

Website that helps sports communities become a part of the solution to domestic and sexual violence

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

Small Moments

Promotes establishing safe, stable, and nurturing relationships and environments for children in order to prevent violence

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

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

Prevention Toybox

Games and discussion activities to support prevention activities at the higher levels of the social ecology

Rethinking Schools

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

NativeLove

Campaign challenging Native youth to rethink and redefine Native Love

Connecting the Dots

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

Adolescent Boys and Young Men

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

Girls for Gender Equity

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

STOP SV

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

DoSomething.org

Supporting young people interested in social change efforts

Red Women Rising

Community driven media project that supports culturally responsive domestic violence services for Urban Indians

The Mask You Live In

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

The Freechild Project

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

School Girls Unite

Addressing human rights issues such as gender equality, universal basic education, and child marriage prevention

Prevent Violence NC

Cooperative statewide effort encouraging coordinated violence prevention initiatives across North Carolina

Live Respect

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

Teaching Tolerance

Resource for educators who want to promote diversity, equity and justice

Stand4Respect

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

Working with Men & Boys

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

Community Readiness for Change

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

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

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

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

Introduction to Prevention

Video learning module reviews the basics of prevention theory and strategy

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

Alaska Men Choose Respect

Men to come together as allies to end violence, promote respect, and strengthen communities in Alaska

Ten Men

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

Why Men Should Care

Panel discussion of men responding to the war on women

Finding the Perfect Shade of Change

Guidance for practitioners on building effective community-based prevention strategies

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

Miss Representation

Explores gender stereotypes and portrayals of women in the media

Making the Case through Media Advocacy

Toolkit to help preventionists use the media to make the case for community prevention

When I am an Elder

PSA series in which Alaskan youth share their vision for their community when they are an Elder

Move to End Violence

Ten year movement building initiative to strengthen leaders, organizations, and the work

Respect Works!

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

Veto Violence

Comprehensive online resource featuring a variety of tools for the prevention of all types of violence

Ohio Pathways in Prevention

Eight year statewide prevention plan for Ohio

Hombres Unidos

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

Gardens for Growing Healthy Communities

Fostering community connectedness and well-being through community gardens

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

White Ribbon Campaign

Campaign to engage men in communities to organize, raise awareness, and speak out against violence