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Prevention Messaging Best Practices

This is a collection of resources exploring best practices in developing and delivering effective messages to prevent sexual abuse, assault, and harassment. 

Moving toward prevention: A guide for reframing sexual violence

Develop effective messages about preventing sexual harassment, abuse, and assault that will resonate with different audiences with this guide. This guide, a joint publication between Berkeley Media Studies Group and NSVRC, provides recommendations on how to frame sexual violence, develop effective messages about prevention, and work with the media to inform and educate the public.

This 30-minute course explains why plain language is important for messaging about sexual violence and provides opportunities to practice using plain language.

This 30-minute course explores how the general public understands sexual violence. It provides opportunities to practice reframing messages about sexual violence to get at root causes and ultimately change how people understand it.

This 30-minute course teaches you how to create effective messages about preventing sexual harassment, abuse, and assault. It includes slide visuals, audio narration, and interactive quizzes to help you practice what you learn. 

This resource is comprised of tools to help build relationships with journalists and inform news coverage about sexual harassment, abuse, and assault.

Develop effective messages about preventing sexual harassment, abuse, and assault that will resonate with different audiences with this guide. This guide, a joint publication between Berkeley Media Studies Group and NSVRC, provides recommendations on how to frame sexual violence, develop effective messages about prevention, and work with the media to inform and educate the public.