Sexual violence hurts our whole community and can affect people of all ages, genders, and sexual orientations. Anyone can experience or perpetrate sexual violence. In addition, a perpetrator is usually someone the victim knows personally, such as a family member, friend, intimate partner, or coworker. With this in mind, how can measures of prevention be put into place?

Both adults and children can learn skills to prevent violence and abuse. Some of these skills include promoting social norms that protect against violence, teaching safe, healthy, and consensual dating skills, and creating protective school and work environments. Prevention methods also occur with proper sexual violence education and learning to stand up for others.

Requesting a program or training for your workplace, school, church, or community group is a great way to get started. For example, our programs teach you how to prevent child sexual abuse, human trafficking, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. We will also work with you on an individualized program to suit any specific needs of your community.