Sexual Violence Prevention: Building Leadership and Commitment to Underserved Communities (Videotape Course)

Course No: VC0055

This program originally aired as a satellite broadcast and webcast on April 3, 2003. CDC’s Injury Center sponsored Sexual Violence Prevention: Building Leadership and Commitment to Underserved Communities to provide educational information to grantees and those who have an interest in preventing sexual violence.

Overall, this self-study course addresses issues related to rape prevention and education. Specifically, this course:

• Provides examples of programs demonstrating key components of a public health approach within specific population-based strategies.

• Introduces a paradigm shift from individual to population-based strategies and inform the audience of disparities within certain racial/ethnic and minority groups.

• Provides information to everyone with a vested interest in preventing sexual violence and serve as a national forum to raise awareness of efforts to target populations who have limited access to rape prevention programs such as American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, and disabled women.

Program Information

MATERIALS: To obtain this video course, e-mail a request to: dvpinfo@cdc.gov.

TARGET AUDIENCE: Rape Prevention and Education practitioners and program managers; state health department officials (Injury Prevention programs, Maternal and Child Health, Women’s Health, etc.) and other public health officials; health professionals; state sexual violence prevention coalitions; local rape crisis centers; private and non-profit organizations (i.e., hospitals); Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) grantees and administrators; Victims Of Crime Acts (VOCA) grantees and administrators; and other non-traditional partners.