The American College Health Association developed this toolkit — Shifting the Paradigm: Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence — to provide facts, ideas, strategies, conversation starters, and resources to everyone on campus who cares about the prevention of sexual violence. While there is a rich volume of tools, knowledge, and resources for intervention after sexual violence, the emphasis of this toolkit is to encourage prevention activities that take place before sexual violence has occurred and which create social change and shift the norms regarding sexual violence. A primary prevention approach to preventing sexual violence requires a paradigm shift in the thinking of the campus community. Primary prevention helps create environments that promote respect, equality, civility, healthy relationships, and healthy sexuality — and ultimately, a campus environment where students are safe and learning successfully.

‘Who Are You’ is a ground-breaking, multi-media campaign that focuses on what each and every one of us can do to stop a possible sexual assault from happening. It offers a free toolkit that uses group exercises and a short film to educate young people about the prevention of sexual violence, being a responsible bystander and ethical decision making.

The Red Flag Campaign is a social norms campaign designed to address dating violence and promote the prevention of dating violence on college campuses. The campaign was created using a “bystander intervention” strategy, encouraging friends and other campus community members to “say something” when they see warning signs ("red flags") for dating violence in a friend’s relationship. The campaign posters reflect racially and ethnically diverse models, and illustrate both heterosexual and same-sex relationships.

The goal is to increase the likelihood that friends and other campus community members will “say something” when they see warning signs ("red flags") for dating violence in their friend’s relationship.

ODVN in partnership with Dr. Sandra Ortega has created a campus climate questionnaire that measures perceptions of safety regarding relationship violence (dating and domestic violence), sexual assault, stalking, and sexual harassment. The questionnaire also measures several prevailing social norms on campus. The questionnaire is evidence based and is available for FREE to any Ohio campus or any campus across the United States. This version includes a religiosity scale to measure faith as a protective factor for faith based institutions. Additionally, the research base for this instrument is included in citations at the end.

The Beat the Punch campaign works to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) and create lasting community change. The campaign works to reduce risk factors and strengthen protective factors linked to IPV committed by young men. The campaign addresses these factors on the individual, relationship and community levels in line with the Public Health Approach and the social ecological model. The tool kit has a variety of resources that are helpful, training tools, evaluations tools and media messaging including radio spots.

Bystanders, the largest group involved in violence, who greatly outnumber both perpetrators and victims have the power to stop abuse and to get help for people who have been victimized. Active bystanders are people who are aware of an abusive situation, and choose to speak up and say or do something without putting their own safety at risk. Try a play from our playbook to help you intervene in a situation potentially involving sexual assault, relationship violence, stalking, and/or cyberstalking.

The SUNY Chancellor’s Working Group met several times to draft and refine policies. In addition, Working Group coordinators hosted two Town Hall meetings where members of the SUNY community had an opportunity to provide feedback and suggested changes to the policies, and two Town Hall meetings with the Governor’s Office and outside advocacy groups who likewise provided feedback and suggested changes. The policies benefitted significantly from input from a wide variety of experts.

The State University of New York today announced an expanded offering of its SUNY SAVR (Sexual Assault and Violence Response) resources for victims and survivors of sexual and interpersonal violence. In addition to the local contacts and information previously available, SUNY has translated the Affirmative Consent, Amnesty, and Bill of Rights provisions of Enough is Enough legislation into more than 100 languages, developed a visa and immigration resource specific to international and immigrant victims and survivors of violence, and will be making all of its resources publicly available so that any college, State agency, or community organization can access them for free. SAVR resources build upon SUNY’s national leadership in providing guidance for colleges and universities to comply with federal guidelines including the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) regulations, University-wide Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Policies, an international Study Abroad Clery Act and Title IX Procedure for SUNY colleges, and a training series that attracts thousands of registrants each year.

One Love’s mission is to end relationship abuse by educating young people about healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors and empowering them to be leaders driving change in their communities. The One Love Foundation was created in 2010 to honor the memory of Yeardley Love, a senior lacrosse player at the University of Virginia who was three weeks shy of her graduation when she was killed by her ex-boyfriend.

Mentors in Violence Prevention is a leadership program that motivates both men and women to play a central role in solving problems that historically have been considered women’s issues: rape, battery, and sexual harassment. The MVP program employs a train the trainer and peer leadership approach to bystander intervention. A group of staff trainers facilitate discussion sessions for student participants, who go on to facilitate co- educational sessions for their peers. Topics include: how to respond to actual or potential abuse or harassment, how to confront peers about sexist behaviors, how to support peers who are the victim of gender violence, and how to create a safe, non-violent school environment.

Violence against women is 100% preventable. Men As Peacemakers has developed a suite of resources to shape campus environments and empower students for gender equity and prevention of violence against women.

Students’ values, beliefs, behaviors, and experiences are shaped by the social environment in their campus community. MAP’s BEST programming systematically shapes first year experience, residential life, athletics, party culture, and overall campus policy and protocol to prevent sexual and domestic violence. Our unique approach to preventing sexual assault on college campuses organizes and inspires students to create a genuine atmosphere of equity, safety, and respect that results in increased awareness of sexual assault, engagement of men on campus, safer parties, respectful athletic team cultures, and ultimately reduces sexual violence.
Men As Peacemakers has worked with students to create the BEST Party Model—an innovative approach to sexual assault prevention on college campuses. BEST involves college men and women in shaping safe, respectful, and fun party environments that will help prevent sexual violence. Men As Peacemakers can help instigate the Party Revolution! on your campus.
The BEST Party Model includes a comprehensive package of resources to instigate the Party Revolution! on your campus. MAP also provides recommended institutional policies and procedures to instigate, incentivize, and maintain a BEST Party culture on campus.

Men Stopping Violence (MSV) opened its door in 1982, and began offering forward-thinking classes that engaged men in programs designed to teach strategies that created safer communities for women and girls. The same state-of-the-art program designs continue today, with MSV leaders offering nationally-acclaimed education and programs on initiatives such as Because We Have Daughters®, Tactics and Choices for stopping domestic violence, Community Restoration Program and more.