The links below contained detailed information for the upcoming 2017 Safe States Alliance Annual Meeting, taking place September 12-14, 2017 in Aurora, Colorado.
Please note:
- A total of five concurrent sessions will take place during the Annual Meeting, and there will be up to five breakouts occurring simultaneously during each of those concurrent sessions. Within each breakout, there will be up to four presentations that take place.
- This online system does not allow us to embed the individual presentations within each breakout. Please note the session presentations listed under each Concurrent Breakout title for associated content.
- The on-site mobile app WILL embed these sessions for ease of use.
- A printable, detailed agenda can be found on the 2017 Annual Meeting website.
- If you have any questions, please contact info@safestates.org
- All session times and locations are tentative and subject to change. Safe States will continue to update these details as changes take place.
Engaging Leadership: A Learning Community Approach to Sexual Violence Prevention
Learning Objectives
In this session, participants will: move 3 to 1
- Discuss cross-cutting approaches to sexual violence prevention and ways to elevate sexual violence as a national public health issue
- Learn about CDC and ASTHO's sexual violence prevention learning community
- Hear from several learning community states around progress made to date, challenges, and lessons learned
Statement of Purpose
For the past two years, CDC and ASTHO have been working with six states (AK, CO, IA, MN, NM, and VA) as part of a sexual violence prevention learning community. The goal of the project is to provide technical assistance and capacity-building to State Health Officials, state leadership, and agency staff, strengthen the role of state health leadership, and elevate sexual violence prevention as a public health issue.
Methods/Approach
Each learning community state participated in virtual learning community calls, attended an in-person leadership meeting, completed a stakeholder needs assessment, and hosted a stakeholder site visit. As a result of these activities, the six states each created an action plan around the systems-level components of data, policy, financing, and partnerships with a strong focus on risk and protective factors. Throughout the course of the project, the six states have worked to achieve the goals they set in their state action plans.
Results
All of the six learning community states made large strives towards their action plan goals. For example, as a result of this project states gained access to proxy indicator data, supported comprehensive health education, strengthened partnerships with their health department's chronic disease prevention staff, and hosted listening session with various stakeholders around their states.
Conclusions & Significance to the Field
The six learning community states tested out strategies to engage leadership in sexual violence prevention over the past two years. For this presentation, three of the six learning community states would present their successes, challenges, and lessons learned to participants and engage in a discussion on cross-cutting approaches to sexual violence prevention. This will allow a larger group of states to gain knowledge and techniques that they can bring back to their own health departments and use to elevate sexual violence prevention.
Presenters
Mandy Deutsch, ASTHO
Biography
Mandy Deutsch, MPH, MSW
Analyst, Health Promotion, Disease Prevention
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)