Rape Prevention Education Program
Summary of Program Applicants
FY 2008/2009
Crisis Center for Women (Fort Smith) $58,784.00
This project will provide sexual violence prevention and education presentations, literature and activities to middle, junior and high schools in all districts in the six county service area through a week-long curriculum. This curriculum was developed by Crisis Center for Women and incorporated into health classes. They will also implement the “Safe Dates” curriculum in local private schools. Additionally, this program will offer sexual violence prevention and education to college students, offering at least one program to males on campus.
Ozark Rape Crisis (Clarksville) $39,915.00
This program will target general population youth, including at-risk youth, adults and people with disabilities in a six county area. They will provide sexual violence prevention and education programs through area schools, colleges, parenting classes, churches and other organizations. Primary prevention programs will seek to change attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that allow sexual violence to occur primarily using evidence-based curricula. This program will also actively promote anti-violence messages throughout the community via public service announcements, the agency website, public bulletin boards and health fairs.
Partners for Inclusive Communities (Little Rock) $28,623.00
This project proposes to address the critical problem of sexual violence toward people with disabilities through the “Safety and Sexual Violence Prevention Project”. This project will emphasize primary prevention activities through information dissemination, educational seminars for people with disabilities and families of children with disabilities, as well as training for professionals and other interested individuals who act on behalf of persons with disabilities in a six county service area. The Safety and Sexual Assault Prevention Project will work in conjunction with several other Commission funded projects and will also provide outreach to other programs that serve persons with disabilities on a statewide level.
Safe Places (Little Rock) $39,980.00
The “Chances & Changes: A Violence Prevention Education Program” provides sexual violence prevention education to children and families in Pulaski County. They also provide training and technical assistance to build the capacity of allied professionals to provide sexual violence prevention education to area children and youth. The goal of the project is to increase knowledge and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors related to sexual violence for children, adolescents and families, and to empower adult professionals to give students the information and strategies needed to stay safe.
Sexual Assault Recovery and Prevention (Springdale) $37,025.00
The “Silence Equals Violence: Preventing Sexual Assault Through Education” project will provide sexual assault prevention and education to area youth and adults in a three county service area through educational seminars, training programs for professionals and students, information and awareness methods, collateral contacts, presentations, print ads, television ads, and community booth displays with the intent of educating youth and adults while preventing and reducing sexual assault.
Southwest Arkansas Domestic Violence (DeQueen) $56,277.00
This program seeks to provide sexual violence prevention and education in a seven county service area in southwest Arkansas utilizing a variety of evidence-based curricula. The target populations for this project will include youth, adults, professionals, county officials, legislators, and policymakers, as well as the underserved Hispanic population. Activities will focus on primary prevention with the interconnected goals of reducing factors that put individuals at risk for sexual assault and increasing factors that protect individuals from becoming victims or perpetrators.
University of Arkansas-University Health Center (Fayetteville) $46,753.00
This proposed project for rape prevention education at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville involves the use of peer education as an effective means for educating young adults and professionals in an effort to change attitudes and beliefs that are rape-supportive and to promote a society free from sexual violence. They will provide 3 eight-week academic courses for one hour credit addresssing sexual assault and prevention including one class for male students called “Real Men: Masculinity in America” that will address issues of power and control that lead to violence against women. Additionally, they will conduct large scale multi-media campaigns that promote conscious-raising awareness about myths and facts associated with sexual assault.
TOTAL $307,357