Health Promotion

Essentials for Parenting Toddlers and Preschoolers

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

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

Health Equity Guide

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

Coaching for Change

Training programs to help athletic coaches promote positive social change

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

Awake to Woke to Work

Equips organizations to accelerate measurable progress as they work to build a culture that centers racial equity

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

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

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

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

Health Equity in Practice

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

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

RedefineSLO

Website offering the tools that parents and educators need to be positive role models for the pre-teen boys in their lives

Health Equity Approach to Preventing SV

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

Roll Red Roll Toolkits

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

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

Disability Justice & Violence Prevention

Resource hub of tools for preventing violence against people with disabilities

Girls on the Run

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

Project Consent

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

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

Illustrating Our Prevention Story

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

Skin to Skin

Campaign inviting men into nurturing caregiving relationships with their children

Prevention Through Liberation

Explores the links between anti-oppression work and violence prevention

Take a Stand for Healthy Relationships

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

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

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

Powerful Voices

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

Respect Effect

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

Keep Connected

Workshop series designed to help families navigate middle school and prepare for teen years

Small Moments

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

Athletes As Leaders

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

Health Equity & Multisector Approach

Provides multisector health equity framework to DV prevention

Coaching with Courage

Training module to support coaches in creating a positive sports culture and fostering healthy relationship skills

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

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

Start with Respect

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

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

Dating Matters

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

Prevent Violence NC

Cooperative statewide effort encouraging coordinated violence prevention initiatives across North Carolina

Teaching Tolerance

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

Open Minds to Equality

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

Stand4Respect

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

Community Resilience Cookbook

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

Talk Now Talk Often

Campaign encouraging parents to talk with their teens about healthy relationships

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

Healthy Sexuality Approaches

Report on the top curriculum-based healthy sexuality programs

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

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.

Veto Violence

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

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

Be Strong: From the Inside Out

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

Strength Campaign

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

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 the Peace

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

Everyday Mentor

Resources to help mentors support youth's academic success, emotional and physical health, and other key areas of their lives