News & Events

• 2007 Sexual Violence Prevention Program Annual Report
  This report highlights the accomplishments of the program in 2007.
  
  
• Funding Opportunity to Assist in Implementation of PREVENT project for up to twenty Sexual and Domestic Violence Agencies (SDVAs) in Virginia. This funding opportunity is available to assist in the implementation of the PREVENT Project, a project of the Virginia Teen Dating Violence Prevention Taskforce - Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance. For more information on PREVENT, please see the Combining Strengths presentation.

• To help healthcare practitioners better identify and treat victims, CDC recently developed Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence Victimization Assessment Instruments for Use in Healthcare Settings.
  

• New report on screening for sexual violence in health care settings Screening for Sexual Violence: Gaps in Research and Recommendations for Change. Data shows that the majority of women who are victims of childhood or adult sexual violence do not go to hospitals, do not tell their families, and are hesitant to speak to their friends about it. But survivors of sexual violence do make frequent visits to health care services. This document discusses that providers could be central in improving the outcomes of survivors of violence if they screened, educated and referred their patients.

• "Safe Dates" curriculum and program training opportunity for public or private middle schools and high schools in Virginia

• View the new CDC publication Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Within
  Youth-serving Organizations

• Resources for Schools to Prevent and Respond to Violence
  
  
• Read the new article in the Prevention Researcher about sexual violence prevention co-authored by Brad Perry of the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance.

• Read the messages from the VDH list server about upcoming trainings, new
  resources and job opportunities in the field of sexual violence.