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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed Prevention Resources for Action to help states and communities take advantage of the best available evidence to prevent violence. The packages represent a select group of strategies and approaches to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to reduce violence.
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The strategies and approaches from the Resources for Action are summarized below.
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Below is a list of programs that align with strategies from Sexual Violence Prevention: Resource for Action and Intimate Partner Violence Prevention: Resource for Action. Please note this is not a comprehensive list of strategies. The field of violence prevention is still developing and many of the approaches related to policy and community level change may not have a pre-packaged program. Preventionists are encouraged to review the violence prevention technical packages and select an approach based on their community needs.
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| Program | Type of Strategy | Approach | Program Description |
| Athletes as Leaders | Promote Social Norms That Protect Against Violence | Athletes As Leaders™ is a program for high school athletes on girls’ sports teams. The program aims to empower student athletes to take an active role in promoting healthy relationships and ending sexual violence. Athletes are encouraged to be leaders in changing social norms at school (and beyond) to a culture of safety and respect. It is recommended to use this program in conjunction with Coaching Boys Into Men. | |
| Bringing in the Bystander | Promote Social Norms That Protect Against Violence | Bystander Approaches | Bringing in the Bystander® is an evidence-based bystander intervention program. Rather than focusing strictly on the roles of perpetrator and victim, the highly interactive Bringing in the Bystander® curriculum uses a community responsibility approach. It teaches bystanders how to safely intervene in instances where sexual violence, relationship violence or stalking may be occurring or where there may be risk that it will occur. |
| Dating Matters | Teach Skills to Prevent Violence | Teaching healthy, safe dating and intimate relationship skills to adolescents. | Dating Matters®: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships is a comprehensive teen dating violence prevention model developed by CDC to stop teen dating violence before it starts. It is an evidence-based teen dating violence prevention model that includes prevention strategies for individuals, peers, families, schools, and neighborhoods. It focuses on teaching 11-14 year olds healthy relationship skills before they start dating and reducing behaviors that increase the risk for dating violence, like substance abuse and sexual risk-taking. |
| Coaching Boys into Men | Promote Social Norms That Protect Against Violence | Mobilizing Men and Boys as Allies | Coaching Boys into MenSM is a coaches leadership program that partners with athletic coaches to help young male athletes practice respect towards themselves and others. The goal of the program is to help younger generations build non-violent and respectful relationships to prevent future intimate partner violence and relationship abuse. The program was developed for coaches to easily integrate messages into their regular coaching sessions. |
| Discovery Dating | Teach Skills to Prevent Violence | Teaching healthy, safe dating and intimate relationship skills to adolescents | Discovery Dating is a healthy relationship development tool created by Wise Women Gathering Place. It provides a process for exploration of personal values, discernment of character traits of others, and practice of informed decision making. Discovery Dating details steps which enable the student to predict repercussions of certain choices and the benefits of true partnership based upon discernment of facts and information. Discovery Dating has been used with full or partial implementation in myriad settings, including elementary and middle school classrooms, educational sessions for mothers receiving public benefits, youth clubs, high school enrichment offerings, and women’s support groups. Detailed instructions for implementing 14 weekly sessions in a classroom are available; however, the lessons may be adjusted or combined to suit varying schedules. |
| Expect Respect | Teach Skills to Prevent Violence | Teaching healthy, safe dating and intimate relationship skills to adolescents | SafePlace's Expect Respect Program engages youth and adults in building healthy teen relationships and preventing dating and sexual violence. Expect Respect is built on an ecological, trauma-informed model and offers a comprehensive prevention program for youth in middle and high schools. Expect Respect provides school-based support groups and counseling, youth leadership activities, and educational programs in schools and community settings. The 3 primary program components 1) support boys and girls who have been exposed to violence, 2) mobilize youth as leaders and 3) engage schools, parents and community organizations in creating safe and healthy environments. |
| Green Dot | Promote Social Norms That Protect Against Violence | Bystander Approaches | The Green Dot strategy is a comprehensive approach to violence prevention that capitalizes on the power of peer and cultural influence across all levels of the socio-ecological model. Informed by social change theory, the model targets all community members as potential bystanders, and seeks to engage them, through awareness, education, and skills-practice, in proactive behaviors that establish intolerance of violence as the norm, as well as reactive interventions in high-risk situations. Green Dot in ND |
| Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) | Promote Social Norms That Protect Against Violence | Mobilizing Men and Boys as Allies | The Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Model is a gender violence, bullying, and school violence prevention approach that encourages young men and women from all socioeconomic, racial and ethnic backgrounds to take on leadership roles in their schools and communities. The training is focused on an innovative "bystander" model that empowers each student to take an active role in promoting a positive school climate. The heart of the training consists of role-plays intended to allow students to construct and practice viable options in response to incidents of harassment, abuse, or violence before, during, or after the fact. Students learn that there is not only "one way" to confront violence, but that each individual can learn valuable skills to build their personal resolve and to act when faced with difficult or threatening life situations. |
| Men of Strength (MOST) Clubs | Promote Social Norms That Protect Against Violence | Mobilizing Men and Boys as Allies | Men Can Stop Rape's youth development program, the Men of Strength Club, is a primary violence prevention program for mobilizing young men to prevent sexual and dating violence. The Men of Strength Club, or MOST Club, provides young men with a structured and supportive space to build individualized definitions of masculinity that promote healthy relationships. Men Can Stop Rape also uses public awareness campaigns and Community Strength Projects to reach young men at the community level. |
| Powerful Voices | Provide Opportunities to Empower and Support Women and Girls | Strengthening leadership and opportunities for girls | Powerful Voices creates brave spaces with girls of color to take charge of their own power as leaders, igniting their abilities to confidently express themselves, build community, and act against injustices affecting their lives. |
| Safe Dates | Teach Skills to Prevent Violence | Teaching healthy, safe dating and intimate relationship skills to adolescents | Safe Dates is a ten-session program for 8th and 9th grade students that targets attitudes and behaviors associated with dating abuse and violence. Each session is approximately 50 minutes in length. Safe Dates can be flexibly scheduled (e.g., daily or weekly sessions). The program can be modified to be four- or six-sessions. It is important to realize, however, that the fidelity of the product and accompanying outcomes are best maintained by completing all ten sessions. |
| Second Step | Teach Skills to Prevent Violence | Social-emotional learning | The Second Step programs helps schools take a holistic approach to social-emotional learning (SEL), combining classroom SEL with new offerings for out-of-school time and SEL for adults. The expanded family of programs can help with: compassion in the classroom, common language across environments, and educator well-being. |
| Shifting Boundaries | Create Protective Environments | Improving safety and monitoring in schools | Shifting Boundaries: Lessons on Relationships for Students in Middle School is an evidence-based, multi-level prevention program for middle school students on sexual harassment and precursors to dating violence. The program is unique in that it embraces an environmental approach that identifies multiple strategies to support young people – both school-wide interventions and classroom lessons. |
| The Fourth R | Teach Skills to Prevent Violence | Social-emotional learning | The Fourth R consists of a comprehensive school-based program designed to include students, teachers, parents, and the community in reducing violence and risk behaviors. It is important that young people be given information that will help them make good decisions and are shown positive relationship models that will demonstrate alternatives to the negative examples they frequently see in the world around them. Involving all adolescents in education about safety and risk, rather than just those who show problems, builds resilience for future difficulties. Through this program, all students are better equipped with the skills they need to build healthy relationships and to help themselves and their peers reduce risky behaviors. |