Indiana’s Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Plan: Key Recommendations and Strategic Priorities

1. Indiana’s Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Plan:Key Recommendations and Strategic Priorities Abby Kelly-Smith, Chair Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Council

2. THANKS! To the Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Council!

3. Angie Turk Anita Carpenter Antoinette Holt April Sloan Calvin Roberson Caroline Fisher Cena Bain Christopher Collins Colleen Yeakle Emily Haas-Warren Gayla Winston Joan Knies Juanita Russell Karen Duncan Katherine Beavis Katie O’Bryan Kimber Nicoletti Leslie Montgomery Lin Montgomery Linda Wells Linda Wilk Marlene Dotson Mary Neddo Nancy Maylath Pam Jahnke Pam Robbins Rizwana Biviji Rus Funk Stephanie Woodcox Tanya Parrish Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Council Members

4. Our Vision and Mission • Vision: A state free of sexual violence achieved through respect between and equity among all people. • Mission: To engage the people of Indiana in the primary prevention of sexual violence using state and community-based strategies for societal change.

5. Goal 1:Educating and Engaging Stakeholders • Dissemination of the sexual violence primary prevention plan • Development of guides targeted to different groups of stakeholders on usage of the plan • Participation of new stakeholders on the SVPPC for the implementation phase

6. Goal 2:Increasing Capacity to Prevent Sexual Violence • The SVPPC will work within the following systems to build partnerships to implement sexual violence primary prevention strategies and policies: • Policy/Lawmakers • K-12 schools • Colleges and universities • Youth and family-serving organizations • Workplaces

7. Goal 3:Supporting Communities through Technical Assistance • Identification of evidence-informed sexual violence primary prevention programs, curriculums, and evaluation tools and provision of technical assistance to community-based programs • Ongoing technical assistance needs assessment and regional trainings

8. Goal 4: Enhancing Social Norms That Promote Sexual Violence Primary Prevention • State and community assessments of social norms among target populations that contribute to sexual violence, and development of plans to modify these social norms • Inclusion of social norms change strategies into all Indiana primary prevention programs: • Healthy relationships skill-building • Bystander intervention • Positive youth development • Social marketing

9. Goal 5:Inclusion of Priority Populations • Identification of disparately affected populations in Indiana not being reached through mainstream primary prevention efforts • Development of leadership and infrastructure for culturally appropriate sexual violence prevention strategies in at least three of these populations

10. Goal 6:Enhanced Data Collection, Analysis and Sharing • Establishing baseline prevalence of sexual violence in Indiana through BRFSS • Continuous monitoring of the best prevalence systems to maintain up-to-date knowledge for prioritization and decision-making

11. Continuation Goal 6:Enhanced Data Collection, Analysis and Sharing • Collaboration with other groups with access to sexual violence prevalence data • Question included in the YRBS

12. More Detail to Come! • Logic models and work plans still under development • The full plan will be posted and disseminated to stakeholders in early 2010 • Visit www.in.gov/isdh/23820.htm to check for updates

13. EVERYONE has a role in preventing sexual violence. What can YOU do?