Auckland Sexual Abuse HELP - Prevention Links

Sexual Violence Prevention Web Links

General prevention resources

1. National Clearing House on Family Violence
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/familyviolence/
This is a huge Canadian resource that has strategy documents and reports, in the area of 'family violence' as it applies across the lifespan. It does not exclusively focus on sexual violence but has a wealth of material that does.

2. Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs
http://www.wcsap.org/
This is the home page for the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs. It includes a mission statement, philosophy and history of the group. Links take you through education to prevention with downloads of Community Development manuals , accreditation standards, creating social change initiatives, amongst other useful material, all with a focus on sexual violence.

3. Assault Prevention Information Network
http://www.jump.net/~judith/APINintro.html
Aims to help people work towards taking charge of their lives and deriving a sense of their place in the world through their own experiences and judgements. This site hopes to provide the information individuals need in order to move towards achieving this:
'The issue of violence places us on the cusp of those opposing directions. We yearn to control our own lives, to decide for ourselves where our boundaries are, and who gets to cross them and how far. We feel helpless because we do not have the information we need to make effective decisions, so we wall ourselves up behind security gates, pass punitive (and not very useful) laws, hire more experts (police) and scapegoat anyone we've been told to be afraid of. We have spasms of frustration and anger at this situation, and in our desperation grasp at simplistic solutions that we would not settle for if we had more information.'

4. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/
This site gives information on family and intimate violence prevention projects and research underway or completed. It also provides useful and informatives facts sheets (see especially the rape fact sheet) about different types of injuries. Includes information about community programmes developed and underway in the USA.

5. Office for Victims of Crime Resource Center -
National Victim Assistance Academy
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/assist/nvaa99/chap9.htm
This website in general engages with victim support issues. This particular chapter looks at rape and victim support, and includes many useful statistics plus solid information about the history of rape as a crime. Definitely worth a read for policy and legal professionals.

6. International Prostitutes Collective http://allwomencount.net/EWC%20Sex%20Workers/
SexWorkIndex.htm
An excellent resource with many useful articles. Decriminalisation and the fight for it is documented in some detail here.

Age-specific resources

7. Kidsafe - A Sexual Abuse Prevention Program
http://www.kid-safe.org/sitemap.html
Kidsafe is a Canadian conceived program which aims to educate parents, teachers and caregivers to better enable them to protect children from abuse. The program is based on handbooks and workshops. There is a 5 part series that covers issues and indicators, Sam the Safety Dog (designed to teach children), safety for older children, disclosure and reporting and legal implications. Excerpts are available but full handbooks are available for purchase only.

8. Canadian Child and Family Site
http://www.cfc-efc.ca/
From their front page: 'Fifty Canadian non-profit organizations have come together under the banner of Child & Family Canada to provide quality, credible resources on children and families on an easy-to-navigate website. The managing partner of the consortium is the Canadian Child Care Federation (http://www.cfc-efc.ca/cccf).'

9. Best Practices in Teen Dating Violence Prevention Efforts
http://www.uic.edu/depts/psch/idhs/TDV.htm
Paul Schewe's very well researched unpublished manuscript about prevention programmes for teenagers: what works and what doesn't.

10. Drawing the Line
www.acog/from_home/publications/drawingtheline/index.htm
A guide to Developing Effective Sexual Assault Prevention Programs for Middle School Students.This site is a thoroughly explored and referenced examination of sexual assault dynamics and the related task of developing prevention programs targeting middle school aged students. The project was driven by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. They have created a free download resource that is an extremely valuable document as an over view of issues related to prevention.

Women-specific resources

11. Women's Health Matters http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca/facts/quick_show_d.cfm?
number=182
This 'healthbytes' section of the Women's Health Matters site includes information about changing the 'NO means NO' message to 'Only Yes means Yes'. It also provides links to other useful information.

12. Defending Ourselves Against Violence
www.femininst.com/resources/ourbodies/viol_def.html
From the Feminist.com site, this page provides information about self-defense:
'Self defense can increase the options and choices that we have in any given situation, including situations where we are at risk of violence. Self-defense itself is a choice that is made at a particular moment. Each woman will make the best choice that she can,
based on her resources and knowledge at the time.'

Offenders

13. STOP IT NOW! - Because there is a way to stop child sexual abuse.
www.stopitnow.com
This resource is a great illustration of a program targeting offenders.
It is a comprehensive site with much useful information. It's mission is to call on all abusers and potential abusers to stop and seek help, to educate adults about the ways to stop sexual abuse, and to increase public awareness of the trauma of child sexual abuse.It offers practical ways of doing all these things.

Males

14. For Men Only: For Male Survivors of Sexual Assault http://www.utexas.edu/student/cmhc/booklets/maleassault/ menassault.html
The Counseling & Mental Health Center of Texas has put together a very good page of resources to combat myths about male assault and provide information and practical support for survivors.

15. Men Can Stop Rape
www.orgitecture.com/mcsr/
'Men Can Stop Rape empowers male youth and the institutions that serve them to work as allies with women in preventing rape and other forms of men's violence. Through awareness-to-action education and community organizing, we promote gender equity and build men's capacity to be strong without being violent.'

University Specific Sites

16. Sexual assault prevention and intervention task force.
http://www.schryer.com/sexualassault/
See also the project.html extension for further information.
This webpage is the result of a student project for an Interpersonal Violence: Issues and Treatment course taught at Western Michigan University:
"Select a violence related issue which you can impact in your community. Primary prevention and awareness activities are especially important ways to impact a community. Perform a basic needs analysis, design, propose, and begin implementation of the project. Key agencies include the YWCA, teen shelters and residential treatment centers, domestic violence shelters, crisis hotlines, counseling agencies, schools, churches, and Family Independence Agency. A report including the goals, plan, and product of your project is due on the last day of class."

17. Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Project - University of New Hampshire
http://www.unh.edu/student-life/sharpp/sharpp.html
The mission of SHARPP (Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program ) Peer Education is to provide public awareness, to affect change in social attitudes, and to inform the individuals and groups within the University of New Hampshire (UNH) campus community about issues of sexual and intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, rape culture, safety issues and SHARPP program services. Educational programs, which are developed and presented by SHARPP Peer Educators, are delivered to the UNH community to empower all of its members by increasing campus awareness and by facilitating self-discovery. The knowledge, the resources, and the tools provided by the SHARPP Peer Educators establish a foundation for individuals and groups to challenge violent and oppressive attitudes and actions, which encourage and accept sexual violence and rape culture as the norm in our society.

18. Arizona Rape Prevention Education Project - University of Arizona
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~sexasslt/arpep/
The Arizona Rape and Sexual Assault Surveillance Project is a contract through the University of Arizona, University of Arizona Prevention Center to collect sexual assault surveillance information from the programs in Arizona funded to provide rape prevention education and rape crisis hotline services in Arizona. The federal funds supporting this project are distributed nationally through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administered locally by Diana Dexter, Program Manager, Rape Prevention Education Program of the Arizona Department of Health Services, Bureau for Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of Injury and Disability Prevention.

New Zealand Sites

19. AUT Building Tomorrow Website http://www.aut.ac.nz/news_and_information/events/
buildingtomorrow/mainmenu.shtml
This is an incredibly useful resource about the prevention of child sexual abuse and what people in the communtiy can do.

20. Health-E-Connections
http://www.healtheconnections.co.nz/
website giving information about how to find a health professional for your needs. Excellent page about funding and available options such as ACC funding, WINA funding, workplace schemes and family couselling sessions.

21. The Internet Safety Group
www.netsafe.org.nz
Deals with the core idea of 'making Internet safety something we teach every child from the youngest age, as we do road and water safety.'An excellent site with too much information to condense into one paragraph here. Go and visit it today!

22. YouthLaw
www.youthlaw.co.nz
An extremely useful resource for people under 25 who need to know anything about their rights and the law in New Zealand.

23. Safe Network
www.safenetwork.co.nz.
The website of the organisaton. Hopes to provide information for offenders and their families who are thinking of getting help.

24. Auckland Rape Crisis Website
http://www.rapecrisis.org.nz/
The information on this excellent website ranges from a history of Auckland Rape Crisis and their aims for the future, to information specifically for survivors of rape and sexual abuse. A very usfeul resource encompassing all of Auckland Rape Crisisas an organisation, and their activities.


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		Sexual Violence Prevention Web Links General prevention resources 1. National Clearing House on Family Violence http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/familyviolence/ This is a huge Canadian resource that has strategy documents and reports, in the area of 'family violence' as it applies across the lifespan. It does not exclusively focus on sexual violence but has a wealth of material that does. 2. Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs http://www.wcsap.org/ This is the home page for the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs. It includes a mission statement, philosophy and history of the group. Links take you through education to prevention with downloads of Community Development manuals , accreditation standards, creating social change initiatives, amongst other useful material, all with a focus on sexual violence. 3. Assault Prevention Information Network http://www.jump.net/~judith/APINintro.html Aims to help people work towards taking charge of their lives and deriving a sense of their place in the world through their own experiences and judgements. This site hopes to provide the information individuals need in order to move towards achieving this: 'The issue of violence places us on the cusp of those opposing directions. We yearn to control our own lives, to decide for ourselves where our boundaries are, and who gets to cross them and how far. We feel helpless because we do not have the information we need to make effective decisions, so we wall ourselves up behind security gates, pass punitive (and not very useful) laws, hire more experts (police) and scapegoat anyone we've been told to be afraid of. We have spasms of frustration and anger at this situation, and in our desperation grasp at simplistic solutions that we would not settle for if we had more information.' 4. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/ This site gives information on family and intimate violence prevention projects and research underway or completed. It also provides useful and informatives facts sheets (see especially the rape fact sheet) about different types of injuries. Includes information about community programmes developed and underway in the USA. 5. Office for Victims of Crime Resource Center - National Victim Assistance Academy www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/assist/nvaa99/chap9.htm This website in general engages with victim support issues. This particular chapter looks at rape and victim support, and includes many useful statistics plus solid information about the history of rape as a crime. Definitely worth a read for policy and legal professionals. 6. International Prostitutes Collective http://allwomencount.net/EWC%20Sex%20Workers/ SexWorkIndex.htm An excellent resource with many useful articles. Decriminalisation and the fight for it is documented in some detail here. Age-specific resources 7. Kidsafe - A Sexual Abuse Prevention Program http://www.kid-safe.org/sitemap.html Kidsafe is a Canadian conceived program which aims to educate parents, teachers and caregivers to better enable them to protect children from abuse. The program is based on handbooks and workshops. There is a 5 part series that covers issues and indicators, Sam the Safety Dog (designed to teach children), safety for older children, disclosure and reporting and legal implications. Excerpts are available but full handbooks are available for purchase only. 8. Canadian Child and Family Site http://www.cfc-efc.ca/ From their front page: 'Fifty Canadian non-profit organizations have come together under the banner of Child & Family Canada to provide quality, credible resources on children and families on an easy-to-navigate website. The managing partner of the consortium is the Canadian Child Care Federation (http://www.cfc-efc.ca/cccf).' 9. Best Practices in Teen Dating Violence Prevention Efforts http://www.uic.edu/depts/psch/idhs/TDV.htm Paul Schewe's very well researched unpublished manuscript about prevention programmes for teenagers: what works and what doesn't. 10. Drawing the Line www.acog/from_home/publications/drawingtheline/index.htm A guide to Developing Effective Sexual Assault Prevention Programs for Middle School Students.This site is a thoroughly explored and referenced examination of sexual assault dynamics and the related task of developing prevention programs targeting middle school aged students. The project was driven by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. They have created a free download resource that is an extremely valuable document as an over view of issues related to prevention. Women-specific resources 11. Women's Health Matters http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca/facts/quick_show_d.cfm? number=182 This 'healthbytes' section of the Women's Health Matters site includes information about changing the 'NO means NO' message to 'Only Yes means Yes'. It also provides links to other useful information. 12. Defending Ourselves Against Violence www.femininst.com/resources/ourbodies/viol_def.html From the Feminist.com site, this page provides information about self-defense: 'Self defense can increase the options and choices that we have in any given situation, including situations where we are at risk of violence. Self-defense itself is a choice that is made at a particular moment. Each woman will make the best choice that she can, based on her resources and knowledge at the time.' Offenders 13. STOP IT NOW! - Because there is a way to stop child sexual abuse. www.stopitnow.com This resource is a great illustration of a program targeting offenders. It is a comprehensive site with much useful information. It's mission is to call on all abusers and potential abusers to stop and seek help, to educate adults about the ways to stop sexual abuse, and to increase public awareness of the trauma of child sexual abuse.It offers practical ways of doing all these things. Males 14. For Men Only: For Male Survivors of Sexual Assault http://www.utexas.edu/student/cmhc/booklets/maleassault/ menassault.html The Counseling & Mental Health Center of Texas has put together a very good page of resources to combat myths about male assault and provide information and practical support for survivors. 15. Men Can Stop Rape www.orgitecture.com/mcsr/ 'Men Can Stop Rape empowers male youth and the institutions that serve them to work as allies with women in preventing rape and other forms of men's violence. Through awareness-to-action education and community organizing, we promote gender equity and build men's capacity to be strong without being violent.' University Specific Sites 16. Sexual assault prevention and intervention task force. http://www.schryer.com/sexualassault/ See also the project.html extension for further information. This webpage is the result of a student project for an Interpersonal Violence: Issues and Treatment course taught at Western Michigan University: "Select a violence related issue which you can impact in your community. Primary prevention and awareness activities are especially important ways to impact a community. Perform a basic needs analysis, design, propose, and begin implementation of the project. Key agencies include the YWCA, teen shelters and residential treatment centers, domestic violence shelters, crisis hotlines, counseling agencies, schools, churches, and Family Independence Agency. A report including the goals, plan, and product of your project is due on the last day of class." 17. Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Project - University of New Hampshire http://www.unh.edu/student-life/sharpp/sharpp.html The mission of SHARPP (Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program ) Peer Education is to provide public awareness, to affect change in social attitudes, and to inform the individuals and groups within the University of New Hampshire (UNH) campus community about issues of sexual and intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, rape culture, safety issues and SHARPP program services. Educational programs, which are developed and presented by SHARPP Peer Educators, are delivered to the UNH community to empower all of its members by increasing campus awareness and by facilitating self-discovery. The knowledge, the resources, and the tools provided by the SHARPP Peer Educators establish a foundation for individuals and groups to challenge violent and oppressive attitudes and actions, which encourage and accept sexual violence and rape culture as the norm in our society. 18. Arizona Rape Prevention Education Project - University of Arizona http://www.u.arizona.edu/~sexasslt/arpep/ The Arizona Rape and Sexual Assault Surveillance Project is a contract through the University of Arizona, University of Arizona Prevention Center to collect sexual assault surveillance information from the programs in Arizona funded to provide rape prevention education and rape crisis hotline services in Arizona. The federal funds supporting this project are distributed nationally through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administered locally by Diana Dexter, Program Manager, Rape Prevention Education Program of the Arizona Department of Health Services, Bureau for Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of Injury and Disability Prevention. New Zealand Sites 19. AUT Building Tomorrow Website http://www.aut.ac.nz/news_and_information/events/ buildingtomorrow/mainmenu.shtml This is an incredibly useful resource about the prevention of child sexual abuse and what people in the communtiy can do. 20. Health-E-Connections http://www.healtheconnections.co.nz/ website giving information about how to find a health professional for your needs. Excellent page about funding and available options such as ACC funding, WINA funding, workplace schemes and family couselling sessions. 21. The Internet Safety Group www.netsafe.org.nz Deals with the core idea of 'making Internet safety something we teach every child from the youngest age, as we do road and water safety.'An excellent site with too much information to condense into one paragraph here. Go and visit it today! 22. YouthLaw www.youthlaw.co.nz An extremely useful resource for people under 25 who need to know anything about their rights and the law in New Zealand. 23. Safe Network www.safenetwork.co.nz. The website of the organisaton. Hopes to provide information for offenders and their families who are thinking of getting help. 24. Auckland Rape Crisis Website http://www.rapecrisis.org.nz/ The information on this excellent website ranges from a history of Auckland Rape Crisis and their aims for the future, to information specifically for survivors of rape and sexual abuse. A very usfeul resource encompassing all of Auckland Rape Crisisas an organisation, and their activities.

















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