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Learn more about a specific project or search across a specific category. RALIANCE has created this online, searchable platform to uplift the lessons learned and bold ideas our grantees have put into action. Use the more than one search option to examine how projects are making an impact in different ways.
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Online Peer Support Group for Partners of Men Who Have Experienced Sexual Abuse or Assault
1in6, Inc. Visit Website R3 2018-2019 ($29,670)Read MoreOnline support group program: a free, anonymous, chat-based resource that allows partners of men who have experienced sexual abuse or assault to join a safe community of support using a computer...
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Tewa Women United: Men for Positive Male Role Modeling in Sports
Tewa Women United Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($50,000)Read MoreTewa Women United in Española, NM leveraged their collective intertribal women’s voice in the Tewa homelands of Northern New Mexico to initiate a project in the Espanola-Pojoaque Valley to engage...
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Preparing Boys to End Rape
ReThink Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($49,880)Read MoreReThink in Washington, D.C. built a community of leaders to pilot an approach to work with adolescent boys to instill critical values of empathy, consent and emotional awareness. The goal is to...
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Preventing Sexual Violence in the Service Industry
Our VOICE Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($32,000)Read MoreOur VOICE in Asheville, NC will partner with local service industry establishments to empower owners, staff, and patrons to create safe cultures by improving sexual harassment organizational...
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LGBTQ Sexual Violence Prevention and Accountability Project
New York City Anti-Violence Project Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($46,000)Read MoreNew York City Anti-Violence Project in New York, NY created the first-of-its-kind LGBTQ-specific group for those who have been identified as “at risk” to act in a sexually coercive or violent way...
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Huddle Up to End Gender Violence
Institute for Sport and Social Justice (ISSJ) Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($47,660)Read MoreInstitute for Sport and Social Justice (ISSJ) in Orlando, FL delivered an organizational, systemic, and community-level prevention strategy designed to empower high school and intercollegiate...
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Counseling Services for Youth with Sexual Behavior Problems
Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (MOCSA) Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($50,000)Read MoreMetropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (MOCSA) in Kansas City, MO provided information and resources to a network of 4,000 foster parents in Kansas and Missouri. This helped...
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Grandparents: Sabiduria y Amor
New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs Inc. Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($45,000)Read MoreNew Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs Inc. in Albuquerque, NM created the Sabiduría y Amor Project, drawing upon the strengths of grandparents as advocates for vulnerable children who...
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Parent 2 Parent
New England Adolescent Research Institute (NEARI) Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($49,978)Read MoreThe New England Adolescent Research Institute (NEARI) created the Parent 2 Parent website with the goal of reducing sexual violence through providing educational materials parents need to become...
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Creating Victim-Centric Spaces for Muslim Survivors of Sexual Assault on College Campuses
HEART Women & Girls Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($30,000)Read MoreHEART Women & Girls in Chicago, IL implemented a series of trainings for Muslim students and student leaders on college campuses nationally to develop victim-centric approaches, policies, and...
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Athletes United
CSUN Foundation / The University Corporation dba Strength United Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($50,000)Read MoreStrength United in Northridge, CA was embedded across a community college system and within select colleges and athletic departments to conduct activities that reduce perpetration of sexual...
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Strengthening Services for Latinx Survivors in Colorado
Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($29,976)Read MoreColorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault in Denver, CO created the Colorado Latinx Leadership Network (CLLN) to enhance the professional skills of individual Latinx advocates in the anti-violence...
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It's On Us Local Organizing Program
Civic Nation Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($20,000)Read MoreCivic Nation in Washington, DC expanded the It's On Us Student Engagement Program that trains and educates peer leaders to bring the It's On Us message to their campuses. It's On Us is a national...
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Understanding the Obstacles to Help-Seeking for Minor-Attracted Persons
Barry University, Inc. Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($49,854)Read MoreThis project surveyed minor-attracted persons (MAPs) to better understand the obstacles faced when seeking help. The data will improve and enhance effective, ethical counseling interventions for...
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Workplace Sexual Violence
ASISTA Immigrant Assistance Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($49,750)Read MoreASISTA Immigrant Assistance in Suffield, CT piloted a statewide project in Nebraska, bringing together labor and anti-violence advocates to create on-going collaborations to eradicate sexual...
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Crisis Intervention Resources for Sexually Exploited Homeless and LBGTQ Youth
WEAVE Visit Website R1 2016-2017 ($50,000)Read MoreWEAVE in Sacramento, CA partnered with Wind Youth Services and the Sacramento LGBT Community Center to increase access to crisis intervention, safety planning, and psychoeducational support group...
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Working on Racial Justice Across Sexual Violence and Domestic Violence Coalitions
Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence Visit Website R1 2016-2017 ($39,877)Read MoreWashington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence in Seattle, WA leveraged the expertise of 6 sexual assault and domestic violence coalitions (CA, IA, and WA) to strengthen the social change...
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Demonstration Project: Working with Sexual Assault Survivors with Disabilities in Long-term Care Facilities
Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs Visit Website R1 2016-2017 ($50,000)Read MoreWashington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs in Olympia, WA increased capacity to serve sexual assault survivors with disabilities who reside in long-term care facilities, increased...
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Athletes As Leaders
Harborview Center for Sexual Assault / University of Washington Foundation Visit Website R1 2016-2017 ($50,000)Read MoreHarborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress in Seattle, WA developed, implemented, and evaluated a girls’ athletic leadership program as part of a comprehensive school-wide sexual...
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On the Road to 5k: Coaching Boys into Men Project
University of Northern Iowa Center for Violence Prevention Visit Website R1 2016-2017 ($46,564)Read MoreThe Center for Violence Prevention at the University of Northern Iowa project involved infusion of the Coaching Boys into Men® program in secondary schools across Iowa by conducting ten regional...
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Product Definitions
Artwork
Original design by project participants such as film, photography display, narrative piece, etc
Curriculum
Includes materials for train the trainers or other training element. This may include illustrative artwork to be used within curriculums or in conjunction with trainings.
Language access
Resources in languages other than English
Presentation
PowerPoints or recorded webinar
PSA/Promotional video
A video creating public awareness about an organization’s expertise, resources or a program
Research
Reports including literature reviews, IRBs, white papers, and guidelines
Resource
Includes hard-copy printable brochures, flyers or other short resource information such as one-pagers or handouts, fact sheets, posters or items seen in a ‘toolkit’ such as templates.
Strategy Definitions
Strengthen Policies
This includes policies within organizations that address the organizational culture and practices to prevent SV/DV by both reducing risks and uplifting protective factors. It may also include strengthening policies within organizations, suggesting changes to public policy, offering public policy recommendations.
Enhance Partnerships
Formal or information partnerships to collaborate to align messages, activism, education, and policies and practices as a means to raise community awareness and strengthen the collective impact of SV/DV prevention. Through partnerships, develop a ‘coordinated community response’ that engages multi-layered action, cooperation, and solidarity around a shared goal or purpose. This may include coordinating and enhancing existing partnerships.
Learning Circles
Also called Communities of Practice, engaging in collective learning through convening or joining meetings, committees, conferences, etc. at national, state or regional, or local levels, and explore shared resources (ex. money, programming, messaging) and strategies to leverage SV/DV prevention efforts.
Build Champions
Intentional support and development of individuals and leaders in the community who model and advocate for SV/DV prevention.
Provide Resources
Providing materials (ex. handouts, posters), services (ex. academic advisors, hotline numbers), financial support (ex. money set aside for SV/DV prevention work), time (ex. setting specific times throughout the year to directly talk about SV/DV and how to prevent it), or other assets (ex. connect to other community SV/DV prevention efforts) that address and prevent SV/DV.
Educate & Train
Formal educational programs and trainings (e.g., webinars, keynote speeches, in person trainings) and informal education (ex. team meetings, off the field mentoring) that focus on two components: 1) responding to SV/DV and 2) prevention SV/DV.
Measure Impact
Formal evaluation (ex. surveys) of the outcomes of SV/DV prevention strategies (policies, resources, programs) to provide data that shows evidence of change. This also includes informal evaluation (ex. participant feedback, focus groups) of the outcomes of SV/DV prevention strategies.
Raise Awareness
Specific planned campaigns, pledges, print/posters or multi-media, and social media share graphics that aim to raise awareness about SV/DV and/or how to prevent it in order to mobilize for a purpose/action; may also include engaging national/state media platforms effectively to increase awareness/empower a wider-audience to action.
