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Division of Violence
Prevention
VAW Activities
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Janet Saul
Division of Violence Prevention
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What I will cover
Public health approach to violence
prevention
Division of Violence Prevention Activities
Public Health Approach
Develop & Test
Prevention
Strategies
Assure
Widespread
Adoption
Identify Risk &
Protective Factors
Define the
Problem
RESEARCH
PRACTICE
What’s the Problem?
How Widespread is
it?
Define the
Problem
Surveillance:
Uniform Definitions and
Recommended Data Elements
Improves and standardizes
data collection
Provides standards for
describing acts of sexual
violence
National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence
Surveillance System (NISVSS)
• In collaboration with DOJ & DOD
• CDC will begin ongoing data collection during 2010
• Information will be collected on
• Intimate partner and dating violence, including
physical and psychological aggression, coercive
control, sexual Violence
• Sexual violence by non-intimate, including child sexual abuse,
unwanted sexual situations or sexual touch, rape and attempted
rape
• Stalking
• Will provide national and state-level data beginning in 2011
What contributes to
the problem?
What protects against
it?
Define the
Problem
Identify Risk &
Protective Factors
Risk & Protective Factor Research
Bullying and SV perpetration
Assessing the relation between SV perpetration
and various bullying experiences
Attempting to empirically determine which are
shared and unique risk and protective factors
6th - 8th graders, data collection in the schools
National Survey on Violence
Experienced by Female Children
and Youths in Swaziland
Describe the magnitude of the problem of violence
against children
Identify potential risk and protective factors for violence
against children
Describe health consequences of exposure to sexual
violence
Use risk & protective factor data to help guide programs
and policies to prevent violence against children
What works to
prevent the problem?
Define the
Problem
Identify Risk &
Protective Factors
Develop & Test
Prevention
Strategies
Effectiveness Research -- SafeDates
(Research Practice)
Past evidence of effectiveness
effects on psychological, physical, and sexual dating
violence perpetration & physical and sexual
victimization (Foshee et al., 1996, 2005)
Goals of current study
Replicate original Safe Dates' study
Examine factors influencing implementation
Assess cost-effectiveness and cost-utility
Evaluability
(Research Practice)
Programs
Men Can Stop Rape
Expect Respect (Safe Place)
Goal – Ready for more extensive, rigorous eval
Consistent implementation (e.g., curriculum)
Behavioral outcomes
Large enough scope
Most rigorous design possible
Where the Rubber
Meets the Road…
Define the
Problem
Identify Risk &
Protective Factors
Develop & Test
Prevention
Strategies
Ensure
Widespread
Use
Programmatic Activities -- SV
Rape Prevention Education Program (RPE)
Funds
activities in 50 states, District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, and six U.S. territories
Implements a variety of evidence-informed and
culturally relevant prevention strategies
Educational
seminars, professional training, coalition
building, and changing social norms
Indicators
and Measures
Identified
and developed short-term and immediate
outcome and process measures for RPE
• Ex: community mobilization
Programmatic Activities -- IPV
DELTA Program
Emphasis on primary prevention
14 state domestic violence coalitions
Activities
Training,
technical assistance and funding to local
coordinated community responses (CCRs)
Developing, implementing & evaluating strategies
to prevent first-time perpetration and victimization
Measuring Intimate Partner Violence
Victimization and Perpetration:
A Compendium of Assessment Tools
Provides assessment tools with
demonstrated reliability and
validity
Includes more than 20 scales
Helps researchers and
practitioners make informed
decisions when choosing scales
Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence
Prevention Programs Evaluation Guide
Practical guidelines for planning
and conducting evaluations
Linking program goals,
objectives, activities, outcomes,
and evaluation strategies
Data gathering sources and
techniques
Analyzing and interpreting the
data and sharing the results
THANK YOU!!
For More Information:
www.cdc.gov/injury
1-800-CDC-INFO
The findings and conclusions in this presentation are those of the
author and do not necessarily represent the official position of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention