The New York State Sexual Violence Prevention Resource Center (the Resource Center) helps organizations in New York State implement community-level primary prevention strategies to reduce sexual violence in priority populations.
Sexual violence is a serious public health problem that affects every community and people across identity and experience. The field of sexual violence prevention has emphasized the importance of primary prevention, which means stopping violence before it begins.
The initiative
Six organizations across New York State receive funding from the New York State Department of Health to implement community and societal-level prevention strategies in their communities. Rather than focusing on individual behavior alone, funded organizations take a community mobilization approach, working alongside those most impacted by violence to collectively address the root causes of sexual violence, including economic instability, social disconnection, and unsafe environments.
The Resource Center partners with the New York State Department of Health (the Department) and funded organizations across the state in two distinct roles:
Statewide Evaluator
We serve as the statewide evaluator of the initiative, measuring, assessing and enhancing program impact at the state and local levels.
Training & Technical Assistance Provider
We also provide hands-on implementation and evaluation support directly to funded organizations, helping to build the capacity and skill needed to develop, deliver, and evaluate programs that prevent sexual violence.
The impact
Funded organizations implement strategies at the community and societal levels. They work alongside those most impacted by violence to address root causes: economic stability, community connection, and safe environments. The Resource Center supports how this work evolves over time by helping organizations design, implement, continuously improve, and sustain what works through training, technical assistance, and evaluation. As the statewide evaluator, we lead the data collection and analysis needed to examine impact across the full initiative. When communities transform from within, the effects ripple outward in ways felt by everyone.
Project funder
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), administered by Health Research, Inc. and the New York State Department of Health.
Leadership and contact
Corbin Knight-Dixon, SVP Project Director: svp.contact@caiglobal.org