Sexual violence is inextricably linked to oppression – and we won’t ever end sexual violence without ending oppression.

Risk and protective factors are a framework of things that can increase or decrease the likelihood of sexual violence perpetration.

My cat and I are pretty curious creatures. Pete, my cat, is definitely an evaluator at heart.

In July, the NSVRC held an Ask a Preventionist! live event with partners, Beth Hamilton, Associate Director of Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence and Destie Hohman Sprague, Associate Director of Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault about how to put research into action for a state approach to K-12 sexual violence prevention policy.  If you...

The NSVRC Evaluation Toolkit was created for prevention workers at the local and state levels to increase the capacity to implement program evaluation for sexual violence prevention work by providing tools and guidance for both program implementers and those who support them.

Evaluation is key component of successful prevention programs – it helps us know what is working, what we should change, and can help us track how we got to where we are now. Okay, I can practically hear people tuning out right now. Don’t do it, though – stay with me! I do a lot...

By Mo Lewis, Prevention Specialist for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center Evaluation is an important part of our work – it can show us where we excel and where we need to make changes. It can also let us know if we are creating the changes we are hoping to see with our prevention...

Earlier this year, the American Journal of Preventative Medicine released research on the cost of rape.  The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study, “Lifetime Economic Burden of Rape Among U.S. Adults”, takes into account the criminal justice costs, property loss or damage, lost work productivity, and short-and long-term physical and mental health treatment for victims....

The NSVRC is pleased to announce the release of a new report, Innovations in Evaluation: A Report on Evaluation in the Field of Sexual Violence Prevention. This report, authored by Stephanie M. Townsend, PhD, highlights six state- and local-level approaches to evaluation and explores organizational and individual factors of evaluation capacity.  It offers a glimpse...

This blog post was written by Mo Lewis, Prevention Specialist at NSVRC A report was released this month detailing a five-year study of the Green Dot program in Kentucky high schools. Green Dot is a bystander intervention program that trains students to recognize behaviors and situations that could lead to violence (“red dots”) and identify...