NSVRC Blogs

Many people may like to believe that modern-day slavery does not exist and that human beings have evolved to a place of true equity, but sadly this is not the case. The month of January highlights Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Human trafficking is a growing problem in the United States, which makes awareness of the issue increasingly important. The Respect Together Libraries have a growing collection of materials dedicated to bringing awareness to trafficking in the United States. Below are just a few of these great resources.  Slave Stealers: True Accounts of Slave Rescues Then and

January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, and we’re here to give you resources to help you stay informed and make a difference this month. What is Human Trafficking? Human trafficking is defined as the buying, selling, and/or transportation of a person for the purpose of exploiting them for sex or forced labor. Specifically, victims of sex trafficking are induced by force, fraud, or coercion into sex acts such as prostitution, pornography, or stripping.  Victims of Human Trafficking There is no “one size fits all” for what a victim of human trafficking looks like.

1 in 4 girls and 1 in 10 boys have experienced child sexual abuse at some point before they turned 18. Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a serious and widespread problem; however, it can be prevented. The Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent a report on preventing child sexual abuse to Congress, which highlights how preventing childhood sexual abuse is a public health priority. It also explains CDC’s current efforts to prevent child sexual abuse, and it addresses the gaps that still exist in preventing child sexual abuse.  Preventing

A repost of a blog from our partners at the Urban Institute, Dr. Janine Zweig and Emily Tiry. Originally posted here on the Urban Institute's website. Uber’s ride-sharing platform has massive reach across the US and the world, connecting more than 1 billion rides in 2017 and even more in 2018. At the same time, sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, and sexual assault are ubiquitous social problems in the United States (PDF). Given the scope of Uber’s reach and the way the platform connects people, it is a matter of reality that incidents of sexual misconduct and violence will

Learn from the researchers  NSVRC recently had an exciting conversation with Sevonna Brown, Assistant Executive Director for Black Women’s Blueprint, about their narrative approach and key findings to a six-year study that interlinks reproductive and sexual violence, and the maternal mortality pipeline for women of color. Check it out now to learn more about why the research was done and how we can use the findings to inform prevention practices and collaborations! Have a question? Submit it to us via email by Friday, December 20. We will be compiling all questions and sharing responses

For many of us, November signals the beginning of the holiday rush. Stores are already reminding us that we need to buy buy buy for all those people on our lists. Somehow we’ve bypassed Thanksgiving completely and headed straight into the chaos of Christmas. Before we begin the hype and buzz of the holidays, my hope is that we are able to stop and reflect on November as National Native American Heritage Month. Before any of us were even a thought, various tribes lived and died on the land that we celebrate on. It feels like one dedicated month is not enough time to recognize such influential

Our nation’s history consists of various different people and groups struggling to make a way for themselves, testing what freedom really means. Many populations often times get overlooked or pushed off to the side. It is important that this October, we take the time as a culture to reflect on the LGBTQ community and its own rich history. In an era where equality is such a pervasive term, it is important that all populations be seen and heard. The Respect Together library tries to fill its collection with a variety of resources that hopefully will educate those who are interested. I wanted to

The U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), recently released new criminal victimization data for 2018. This report highlights data from BJS’s 2018 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which is a nationally representative survey that surveyed approximately 160,000 people about crime victimization they experienced in the prior six months of the survey. It collects information on threatened, attempted, and completed non-fatal crimes (including rape and sexual assault, robbery, battery, etc.) and household property crimes (burglary, trespassing, car theft, etc.)

If you are like me, you probably don’t find that traditional pre- and post-test evaluations work very well for complex programming. Prevention work is hard, ya'll, and so is evaluating it. The Evaluation Toolkit helps to make evaluation easier, and we have recently added new resources that we want to highlight. Do you remember the exact moment when a key evaluation concept clicked for you? When NSVRC staff started talking about creating new tools, we thought about a presentation by our former co-worker, Annie Gebhardt, on how she learned to love the logic model. If you need some inspiration

When I began working at NSVRC 15 years ago, I was given a document to read my first week on the job. Sexual Violence Prevention: Beginning the Dialogue was a seminal resource, developed in 2004 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which provided information about a “new” concept in the sexual violence movement – primary prevention.  That resource would be a guide for me as I provided training and information to people across the country on implementing a public health approach in their sexual violence prevention work. It helped to clearly define - through the use of