All kindergarten through 12th -grade public schools or school districts are required by law to appoint a Title IX coordinator. The problem was that there was a shortage of Title IX coordinator peer resources on best practices in existing literature. The purpose of this e-Delphi study was to develop a consensus of Title IX coordinators to resolve…

This study used a website content analysis to examine the prevalence of sex education in higher education institutions throughout the US. A total of 413 postsecondary institutions varying in type (public, private) and size (small, medium, large) were chosen via stratified random sampling. Each of the 413 school websites was reviewed to determine…

Objective: Preventing sexual violence among college students is a public health priority. This paper was catalyzed by a summit convened in 2018 to review the state of the science on campus sexual violence prevention. We summarize key risk and vulnerability factors and campus-based interventions, and provide directions for future research…

Objectives: Assess the acceptability of and self-reported behavioral change from participation in a sexual assault prevention intervention on a U.S. university campus. Participants: Thirty-one undergraduate students who identified as women and opted-in to participating in both the intervention and research. Methods: In-depth interviews and written…

Politically expedient approaches to difficult knowledge about sexual violence have included educational practices that create conditions for 'safe' spaces, such as announcing content in advance, trigger warnings and other pedagogical practices that make care allowable and smooth out the sharp edges of violence that can knowingly invoke trauma.…

Bystander intervention has received increased attention as a potential sexual violence prevention strategy, primarily to address campus sexual assault (McMahon et al., 2017). Shifting the focus from potential victims and perpetrators, the bystander approach engages all members of a campus community to act by increasing positive attitudes and…

The study focuses on the impact of the creative drama method on child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention program in Turkey. A pretest-posttest experimental design with a control group was used in the study. The research was carried out with a total of 72 preschool children aged 3-6 years. Data were collected by What If Situations Test (WIST). A…

Cost analyses are used to determine overall costs of implementing evidence-based programming and may help decision makers determine how best to allocate finite resources. Child sexual abuse (CSA), regularly viewed as a human rights violation, is also a public health concern estimated to impact 27% of females and 5% of males by age 18. Universal,…

Sexual assault is prevalent on college campuses all over the world. Male fraternal settings have historically been a source of high levels of sexual violence. In fraternal settings, often times, partying and alcohol use are contributing factors to sexual assault and many studies have examined these issues (Annan, 2009; Banyard et al., 2003;…

This dissertation offers an ethnographic exploration of higher education sexual violence prevention initiatives through the perspectives of professional staff whose mission is to counter what many call a pandemic of sexual violence. Central to my examination are the emic theories and language ideologies underlying prevention professionals'…

Universities have attempted to address sexual violence on campuses through various prevention programs, including bystander intervention. Unfortunately, the extant literature on bystander intervention has primarily focused on bystander characteristics. Little is known about how situational characteristics affect the likelihood of intervening…

There is a broad consensus about the need to educate students in ecosocial skills and intersectional feminist perspectives, which implies designing, developing and assessing interventions that address this learning in different curricular subjects. Initiatives to educate in these issues generally lack tools to assess what students have learned. In…

Mothers continue to be a major source of sex education for their children. This study explored the attitudes and practices of internally displaced mothers in providing sex-related education to their children in a camp settlement in Nigeria. A qualitative approach was used, and data were elicited from women in three focus group discussions. A…

Much of the sexual assault prevention literature on the university level focuses on individual institutions' varied efforts to address incidences of sexual assault on their campuses and their outcomes (Donais et al., 2018). While consent education programming has emerged as one such effort, there is a dearth of evaluative literature in this area…

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine student perceptions about Title IX prevention and protection programs designed to prevent and protect students from on-campus sexual assault, sexual violence, and rape. The problem addressed students' lack of knowledge about Title IX programs and their vulnerability to sexual assaults,…