Rape Prevention Education Program

Summary of Program Applicants

FY 2007/2008

Crisis Center for Women (Fort Smith)                                                                   $55,194.00
This project will provide sexual violence prevention and education presentations, literature and activities to middle, junior and high schools in all area schools through a week-long curriculum developed by Crisis Center for Women and incorporated into health classes as well as the “Safe Dates” curriculum.  The program will also provide sexual violence prevention and education to college students as well as college professors and administrative personnel in the six county service area of the organization.
                                                                                                                                         
Ozark Rape Crisis (Clarksville)                                                                               $38,477.00
This program will target general population youth and adults as well as at-risk youth and persons 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.  Participants will be provided with brochures and other resource material with hotline numbers to call if they need assistance.
                                                                             
Partners for Inclusive Communities (Little Rock)                                     $36,627.00
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 and training for professionals and other interested individuals who act on behalf of persons with disabilities in a four county service area.  The Safety and Sexual Assault Prevention Project will work in conjunction with several other Commission funded projects and will also outreach to other programs that that serve persons with disabilities on a statewide level.
                                                                 
Safe Places (Little Rock)                                                                                           $52,315.00
The “Chances & Changes:  A Violence Prevention Education Program” provides sexual violence prevention education to children and families in Pulaski County, with emphasis on the Latino community, and also provides 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 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 they need to stay safe.

Sexual Assault Recovery and Prevention (Springdale)                                         $40,975.00
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 for youth and adults.  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.  The target populations for this project will include youth, adults, professionals, county officials, legislators, and policymakers, as well as the underserved Hispanic population in a five county service area in southwest Arkansas.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock- Senior Justice Center                              $19,068.00
The Senior Justice Center is a community-based initiative of the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.  They will use a series of three community-based seminars (presented in three counties) to educate and inform seniors and senior caregivers about sexual violence against the elderly.  The seminars will focus on prevention and creating a cadre of educated seniors equipped to discuss sexual violence prevention in the senior community. 

University of Arkansas-University Health Center (Fayetteville )                          $36,926.00
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 the professionals that they work with regarding issues about sexual assault. In particular, knowledge about rape and related issues in effort to change attitudes and beliefs that are rape-supportive to attitudes and beliefs that are rape-intolerant, contributing to a society free from sexual violence are focused upon by peer educators. Additionally, as vigorous education efforts continue, social-norming and bystander intervention strategies are to be further implemented as efforts are made to continue to change the university environment to one where attitudes and beliefs of zero tolerance for sexual assault are the norm and students are empowered as active community partners with rape prevention.

TOTAL          $335,859.00