Systems Change

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

Health Equity Guide

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

Building Bridges Across the California Ecosystem

White paper outlining steps that communities can take to work toward a future free from gender-based violence

Paid Family Leave Toolkit

Train the trainer toolkit on Paid Family Leave in California

Racial Equity Tools

Tools to support individual and group efforts to learn and work for racial justice at every level

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

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

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

Human Trafficking Prevention Toolkit

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

Disability Justice & Violence Prevention

Resource hub of tools for preventing violence against people with disabilities

Anti-Racism as Violence Prevention

Anti-racism tools for DV/SV advocates and organizations

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

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

#1Thing Action Guide

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

School Anti-Harassment Policy

Sample anti-harassment policy for use in schools

Expanding Partnerships & Linkages

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

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

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

Connecting the Dots

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

Teaching a People's History

Teaching materials emphasizing the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history

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

Girls for Gender Equity

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

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

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

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 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

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

Youth Activist Prevention Toolkit

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

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

Move to End Violence

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

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

Making the Peace

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

Mentors in Violence Prevention

Leadership program emphasizing the role of students as empowered bystanders