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2017 Annual Meeting

du 12 au 14 September 2017

Aurora, Colorado

The links below contained detailed information for the upcoming 2017 Safe States Alliance Annual Meeting, taking place September 12-14, 2017 in Aurora, Colorado.

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Evaluating Coalitions for Sexual Violence Prevention

mercredi 13 septembre 2017 à 08:00–09:15 MDT
Conference Room 1
Learning Objectives

In this session, participants will:

Statement of Purpose

Coalition building is one of the four approved community change strategies for Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) grantees, but evaluating the work of coalitions is challenging. This session will highlight one state’s efforts in evaluating coalitions and committees that include sexual violence prevention as part of their scope of work.

Methods/Approach

Methods/Approach: In June 2016, staff from the RPE Program (RPE Director, RPE Evaluator) and the Core Violence and Injury Prevention Program (Principal Investigator, Data Analyst) committed to expanding their work in injury and violence program evaluation. Analyzing coalition work was one promising direction for this, especially given the expanding emphasis on community change approaches for sexual violence prevention. The team attended the Injury and Violence Prevention Evaluation Institute meeting in Atlanta, and developed the Coalition Assessment Tool (CAT) with assistance from Safe States Alliance, American Public Health Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff.

Results

Results: The final version of the CAT includes questions for participants on coalition purpose, coalition membership, including organizational/community affiliation, roles and responsibilities within the coalition and the group they represent, and coalition processes. It also captures whether the coalition is working on primary prevention of sexual violence, and if not, identifies barriers to implementing this work. The CAT went live for RPE program partners in April 2017.

Conclusions & Significance to the Field

Conclusion/Significance: Assessing coalition work will help the Rape Prevention and Education and Core State Violence and Injury Prevention programs engage more effectively with coalitions and committees around sexual violence, including improving primary prevention work with these partners, identifying best practices of high functioning coalitions, and minimizing barriers to primary prevention programming. It is expected that the CAT will identify new partners to include in future prevention work. This instrument, and its findings, represent an opportunity to understand and expand novel approaches to sexual violence prevention. 

Presenters

Leah Wentworth, New York State Department of Health
Biography

Leah Wentworth is the Research and Evaluation Manager for the Sexual Violence Prevention Program at the New York State Department of Health, and an adjunct professor at the University of New England in the Graduate Program in Public Health. She has ten years of experience in managing and evaluating public health and injury prevention programs, and has worked in both state and local government.  She has coordinated suicide prevention, sexual violence prevention, and older adult falls prevention evaluation projects. She is currently Principal Investigator on a research study assessing the impact of a strengths-based curriculum on preventing violence perpetration among adolescent boys.

Leah has a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts—Boston in Community Planning, an M.P.H. in Health Policy and Management from the University of Massachusetts—Amherst, and a Ph.D. in Occupational and Environmental Health from the University of Iowa.

Sharisse Carter, New York State Department of Health
Biography

Sharisse Carter is the program coordinator for the New York State Rape Prevention and Education Program (RPE). RPE aims to implement sexual violence prevention strategies at the community level throughout New York State.

As a public health professional, Sharisse believes in a comprehensive approach to sexual violence prevention and strongly advocates for evaluation of community level strategies in the field.  

Prior to involvement in RPE, for four years Sharisse conducted community-based participatory research (CBPR) in her hometown affected by water and soil contamination. In addition to CBPR, she continuously collaborated with community-based organizations to enhance the presence of coalitions and promote community change in relation to environmental health.

Sharisse obtained a Master’s degree in Public Health from Hofstra University and a Bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies from Stony Brook University.  

Co-Authors

Ann-Margret Foley, New York State Department of Health
Michael Bauer, New York State Department of Health
Matthew Garnett, New York State Department of Health

Primary Contact

Leah Wentworth, New York State Department of Health
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