End the cycle
Prevention Education
Teaching healthy relationships because this generation deserves to live free from violence.
Prevention
During the pre-teen and teen years, youth begin to learn the skills needed to create and maintain healthy relationships. These social skills include how to manage feelings and emotions and how to communicate in a healthy way with respect and equality. Unhealthy, abusive, or violent relationships can have severe consequences with both short- and long-term negative effects on a developing teen that can carry into adulthood. Supporting the development of healthy, respectful, and nonviolent relationships have the potential to reduce the occurrence of teen dating violence and prevent its harmful and long-lasting effects on individuals, their families, and communities.
To prevent and reduce sexual violence many strategies focus on reducing the likelihood that a person will engage in sexual violence.
Promote Social Norms that Protect Against Violence
- Bystander Approaches
- Mobilizing men and boys as allies
Teach Skills to Prevent Sexual Violence
- Social-emotional Learning
- Teaching healthy, safe dating and intimate relationship skills to adolescents
- Promoting healthy sexuality
- Empowerment-based training
Provide Opportunities to Empower and Support Girls and Women
- Strengthen economic supports for women and families
- Strengthen leadership and opportunities for girls
Create Protective Environments
- Improving safety and monitoring in schools
- Establishing and consistently applying workplace policies
- Addressing community-level risks through environmental approaches
Support Victims/Survivors to Lessen Harms
- Victim-centered services
- Treatment for victims of sexual violence
- Treatment for at-risk children and families to prevent problem behavior including sex offending
Prevention In Practice
One of our very talented Prevention Educators, Briana Neben, presents a TEDx talk on Preventing Teen Dating Violence from the Inside Out.
One Conversation Podcast
Where we believe one conversation can change a life. Join us as we dive deep into the topics of violence and abuse, unhealthy relationships, identifying signs of abuse, how to talk to a potential victim, the importance of speaking up against violence, and much more.
I'm proud of the educational work Vista Rise does to help prevent future abuse as well as support survivors.
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