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Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative - Publications and E-Learning Tools

As originally published by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, the Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative (SADI), the first large scale project of its kind, was created to enhance sexual assault outreach, services, and community partnerships in dual/multi-service programs. Six sites across the nation engaged in a four-­year process of assessment, planning, and implementation of new and enhanced services and organizational capacity building. The materials that were developed based on the lessons learned across project sites can be found at https://www.nsvrc.org/sexual-assault-demonstration-initiative, many of which are avaiable in English and Spanish.

Topics include:

• - Foundations of Advocacy
• - Culturally Relevant Services for Tribal Communities and Communities of Color
• - Picturing Your Program: Planning for Organizational Growth
• - Listening to Survivors - Essential Steps for the Intake Process
• - Comprehensive Services for Survivors of Sexual Violence
• - Throw Away the Menu: Broadening Advocacy
• - It Matters! How Defining Sexual Violence Defines Advocacy Programs
• - Building Cultures of Care
• - Listening to Our Communities: Assessment Toolkit
• - Trauma-Informed Care
• - Lessons for Local Programs & SADI Timeline Overview
• - and the Final Report
   

What is the Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative (SADI) - Watch this brief overview to learn more about the Sexual Assault Demonstration Initiative (SADI) and the lessons learned from this national project.

State Policy Playbook for Ending Campus Sexual Assault

Know Your IX's State Policy Playbook outlines key reforms that students, advocates, and state policymakers can pursue to support survivors on campus, keep students safe, and end gender-based violence in school. Although Title IX and the Clery Act require schools to take action to address gender-based violence, these federal laws set only a floor for schools' responsibilities to create safe and equitable learning environments. States can and should do more to keep schools from sweeping sexual violence under the rug.

For additional resources, you can visit the Know your IX website here.

STOP SV: A Technical Package to Prevent Sexual Violence

This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidencde to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to reduce sexual violenced and its consequences.  Each strategy includes a rationale, specific approaches, potential outcomes, and evidence.

Supporting Survivors of Abuse with Disabilities

Here are five modules designed for domestic violence and sexual assault service providers to learn how they can enhance their services for people with disabilities. CEU's are available.

These modules were created by the I-CAN! Accessibility Project. The I-CAN! Accessibility Project is a collaboration between the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work and the Partnership for People with Disabilities.

Visit https://sites.google.com/vcu.edu/abusesurvivorswithdisabilities/home to access these resources.

Systematic Review of Primary Prevention Strategies for Sexual Violence Perpetration

This systematic review from 2014 had two goals related to looking at primary prevention strategies for sexual violence: 1) to describe and assess the breadth, quality, and evolution of evaluation
research in this area; and 2) to summarize the best available research evidence for sexual violence prevention practitioners by categorizing programs with regard to their evidence of effectiveness on sexual violence behavioral outcomes in a rigorous evaluation.

The study found 3 strategies that had significant effects on sexually violent behavior in a rigorous outcome evaluation: Safe Dates (Foshee et al., 2004); Shifting Boundaries (building-level intervention only, Taylor, Stein, Woods, Mumford, & Forum, 2011); and funding associated with the 1994 U.S. Violence Against Women Act (VAWA; Boba & Lilley, 2009).