Sexual violence prevention
Sexual violence prevention equips youth with the opportunities to practice skills for creating healthy relationships and empowers communities to lead prevention initiatives for greater connectedness, safer spaces, and increased economic stability.
Get help
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, visit the You Have The Right Colorado website.
The SVP Program takes an intersectional approach to our work, deploying systems-level strategies to research and prevent violence.
Program description
The primary components of the Sexual Violence Prevention Program are:
- Grant funding to community-based programs that work to prevent first time sexual violence perpetration.
- Data collection and program evaluation in communities across the state.
- Engaging communities to change policies and practices that sanction sexual violence and to enhance policies, and practices that address the root causes of sexual violence.
- Collaborating with other violence prevention fields for a shared risk and protective factor approach, creating multiple positive outcomes.
Read more about the in-practice work of the Sexual Violence Protection Program
- Equitable Approaches of the Sexual Violence Prevention Program. (National Sexual Violence Resource Center website)
- Sexual Violence Prevention Evaluation Toolkit. (National Sexual Violence Resource Center website)
Statistics & resources for sexual violence prevention
Youth sexual health resources
- For professionals. (webpage)
- A variety of tools and materials for professionals. (webpage)
- More about youth sexual health. (webpage)
Related programs
- Nurturing families and communities. (webpage)
- Sexual and Reproductive Health. (webpage)
- Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education Grant Program HB19 1032. (webpage)