Education/Raising Awareness

Healthy Relationships Toolkit (HeaRT)

Toolkit and Training

Primary prevention of violence against women and girls aims to prevent VAWG before it happens. It is challenging to change the social conditions that produce, drive, and reinforce VAWG. This involves a gender transformative approach that both changes harmful norms, practices, and structures that drive VAWG and reduces gender inequities at the same time.

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

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

Coaching for Change

Training programs to help athletic coaches promote positive social change

Northern NY Call2Men

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

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

In Right Relationship

Campaign to promote healthy relationships and prevent teen dating violence

Building Healthy Relationships with Media

Guidance on how to teach children media literacy

Getting Together for Social Justice

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

Health Equity in Practice

Learning modules to assist violence prevention partners integrate health equity and racial justice into their work

Roll Red Roll Toolkits

Toolkits to help coaches discuss the film Roll Red Roll with student athletes to spark social change

Connected Kids

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

Disability Justice & Violence Prevention

Resource hub of tools for preventing violence against people with disabilities

Project Consent

Project promoting a culture of consent through multimedia campaigns and education.

Bloom365

Educates and activates young people to cultivate healthy and safe relationships

LGBT-Inclusive Curriculum

Provides lesson plans to integrate LGBT history, themes, and people into K-12 classrooms

Expect Respect

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

Teaching for Black Lives

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

Take a Stand for Healthy Relationships

Teaches students how to recognize healthy behaviors in relationships and how to ally for themselves and others

Bullying, Bias, and Diversity Lesson Plans

Collection of K-12 lesson plans designed to foster respect, empathy, and ally behavior

Live Respect on Campus

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

Head Start Trauma Smart

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

#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

ModelCampus

Explores how universities can prevent and respond to gender-based violence on campus

Consent Campaign Guidebook

Guidebook for middle and high school educators and students

Sport + Prevention Center

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

Respect Effect

App encourages young people to build healthy relationship skills by completing daily challenges

Preventing IPV Across the Lifespan

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

Athletes As Leaders

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

Resistance 101

Introductory lesson for students on historical figures who resisted injustice

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

NativeLove

Campaign challenging Native youth to rethink and redefine Native Love

11 Ways to Boost Your Work with News Media

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

Teaching for Change

Teaching critical thinking skills and approaches to leadership development and civic engagement

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

Safe Space Kit

Provides educators with tools to promote safety and inclusivity for LGBT youth in schools

Start with Respect

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

#AMAconSentido

Campaña de prevención con Sentido se centra en la prevención de la violencia entre parejas jovenes

Red Women Rising

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

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

School Girls Unite

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

Integrating Prevention Strategies

Web based resources to support the organizational integration of prevention strategies and practices

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

IPV/SV Prevention Course

This course presents an evidence-based public health and life course prevention approach

Decimos NO MAS/We say NO MORE

Campaña nacional para acoplarse a la comunidad Latin@ en la erradicación de la violencia doméstica y el asalto sexual

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

StandUp!

Youth focused video with accompanying discussion guide to increase active bystander skills

Stand4Respect

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

It's On Us

Campaign designed to spark critical conversations about sexual violence on college campuses

Media Literacy

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

Engaging Boys and Men

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

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

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

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

Embracing Prevention as Social Change

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

Finding the Perfect Shade of Change

Guidance for practitioners on building effective community-based prevention strategies

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

Miss Representation

Explores gender stereotypes and portrayals of women in the media

Athlete Ally

Public awareness campaign and educational program that fosters inclusive sports communities

Making the Case through Media Advocacy

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

Who Are You?

Multi-media sexual violence prevention campaign

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.

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

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

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

Strength Campaign

Highly flexible, adaptable and multi-faceted public education and social marketing campaign

The Fourth R

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

Making the Peace

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

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

Men’s Gender Awareness Workshop

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