Prevention
The term “prevention” describes approaches, programs, or strategies designed to promote healthy environments and behaviors and to prevent unhealthy environments and behaviors. Intimate partner violence prevention, sexual violence prevention, and dating violence prevention are just that – strategies to reduce the perpetration of these types of violence.
Learn more about prevention, promising models, and current approaches:
Learn about prevention in Nebraska:
- Nebraska’s 2010 Sexual Violence Prevention Plan
- Nebraska’s Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Program Standards
- Step Up Speak Out Campaign
- Step Up Speak Out Campaign Materials
- Lindsay Ann Burke Act
- Campus Safety, Dating Violence, Domestic Violence Sexual Assault, and Stalking Awareness Months
- Nebraska’s Network of Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Programs
Publications and Resources
- Why and How Should We Practice Prevention?
- Social Ecological Model
- Spectrum of Prevention
- Principles of Effective Prevention Programs
- Evaluating our Work
- Other Resources
- Training
