Resources

Sexual Violence Surveillance: Uniform Definitions and Recommended Data Elements, Version 2.0: This document is a set of recommendations designed to promote consistency in the use of terminology and data collection related to sexual violence.

Sexual Violence Prevention Resource for Action: CDC’s Prevention Resource for Action, formerly known as, “technical package,” that highlights strategies based on the best available evidence to help states and communities prevent and reduce sexual violence. Also available in Spanish.

Continuing the Dialogue: This resource includes cross-cutting prevention efforts; community-level prevention; strategies and approaches to prevent intimate partner and sexual violence; race, class, gender and social determinants of health; and a vision for the future.

Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Resource for Action: CDC’s Prevention Resource for Action, formerly known as, “technical package,” that highlights strategies based on the best available evidence to help states and communities prevent intimate partner violence, support survivors, and lessen the short and long-term harms of intimate partner violence.

Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Resource for Action: This is a resource to help states and communities leverage the best available evidence to prevent ACEs from happening in the first place as well as lessen harms when ACEs do occur. It features six strategies drawn from the CDC Prevention Resources for Action, formerly known as, “technical packages.”

Sexual Violence on Campuses: Strategies for Prevention: This technical assistance document is intended to be a starting place for practitioners and their campus partners to begin planning and implementing sexual violence prevention strategies in a college or university setting.

Sexual Violence Media Guide: This media guide includes definitions and key terms, statistics, language considerations, and resources to aid in reporting about sexual violence.

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program (NEISS-AIP): NEISS-AIP provides nationally representative data about all types and causes of nonfatal injuries treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments. CDC uses NEISS-AIP data to generate national estimates of nonfatal injuries, including those related to sexual violence.

National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS): NISVS is an ongoing population-based survey that collects the most current and comprehensive national- and state-level data on intimate partner violence, sexual violence and stalking victimization in the United States.

National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS): NVDRS links information about the “who, when, where, and how” from data on violent deaths and provides insights about “why” they occurred. This enables policy makers and community leaders to make informed decisions about violence prevention programs, including those that address sexual violence and intimate partner violence.

Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS): WISQARS is an interactive, online collection of modules that provides fatal, nonfatal, and cost of injury data.

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS): YRBSS monitors health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability, including lifetime sexual violence victimization (ongoing) and 12-month physical and sexual dating violence victimization (beginning in 2013) of high school students in the United States.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Uniform Crime Reports: Each year the FBI publishes a summary of crime in the United States, hate crime Statistics, special studies, reports, and monographs.

National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS): NCVS is the primary source of information on criminal victimization in the U.S. NCVS collects information about nonfatal personal crimes and household property crimes both reported and not reported to police.

National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health): Add Health is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year and have been followed for five waves to date, most recently in 2016-18.

Division of Adolescent and School Health: CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health seeks to prevent the most serious health risk behaviors among children, adolescents, and young adults.

Disaster Mental Health: CDC’s Web page on disaster mental health includes information on coping with the stress that can result from experiencing a traumatic event.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health: This website provides information on the health concerns faced by America’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) population.

Office of Women’s Health (OWH): As the focus for women’s health issues at CDC, OWH provides a forum for collaboration and works within and outside the agency to raise awareness of women’s health and to promote activities that will improve the health and safety of women.

Preventing Sex Trafficking: CDC’s webpage that provides information about sex trafficking including definitions, risks and consequences, and what states and communities need to know about prevention.

VetoViolence: CDC’s online source of free violence prevention training, tools, and resources.

Common Issues Seen in Victims of Trafficking: A fact sheet containing information about the health issues seen in trafficking victims.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention: The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention offers free, online courses. Courses identify problems and risk factors, screening and assessment tools, prevention and intervention strategies, tools for clients, and legal issues surrounding intimate partner violence.

Estimating the Prevalence of Human Trafficking in the United States: Considerations and Complexities: Proceedings of a Workshop: proceedings from a Committee on National Statistics workshop that highlighted current and innovative strategies for estimating the prevalence of sex and labor trafficking in the United States.

Human Trafficking in America’s Schools: This U.S. Department of Education guide helps school officials understand trafficking, recognize risks, and develop protocols and partnerships to prevent exploitation.

National Action Plan to Combat Trafficking (NAP): This national action plan provides guidance for strengthening coordination, collaboration, and capacity across government and non-government groups dedicated to investing resources in anti-trafficking programs and policies. It includes a focus on the foundational pillars of prevention, protection, prosecution, and partnerships.

National Offices of Violence Prevention Network: The National Offices of Violence Prevention Network is a coalition of local governments committed to reimagining public safety. The newly formed Network brings together the leaders of civilian local government offices dedicated to community-driven safety solutions, known as offices of violence prevention.

Office for Victims of Crime: OVC channels funding for victim compensation and assistance throughout the United States, raises awareness about victims’ issues, promotes compliance with victims’ rights laws, and provides training and technical assistance and publications and products to victim assistance professionals.

Office on Trafficking in Persons: Administration for Children and Families initiative seeks to prevent human trafficking in all forms and ensure that victims have access to the services they need.

Trafficking in Persons Report 2023: This resource provides an updated look at the nature and scope of trafficking and the range of government actions to confront and eliminate it.

Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000: This law was passed and reauthorized to stop trafficking in persons, especially into the sex trade, slavery, and involuntary servitude, and to reauthorize federal programs to prevent violence against women.

Understanding Human Trafficking: The U.S. Department of State's web page containing information about human trafficking.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Human Trafficking Prevention Framework: This framework is a resource for organizations, communities and governments seeking to strengthen efforts to prevent human trafficking.

U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women: The Office on Violence Against Women works with victim advocates and law enforcement to develop grant programs that support a wide range of services, including advocacy, emergency shelter, law enforcement protection, and legal aid for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

U.S. Laws on Trafficking in Persons: Acts passed to provide tools to monitor and stop trafficking and to coordinate anti-trafficking efforts.

Love is Respect National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline: Call 1-866-331-9474 or TTY 1-866-331-8453 or visit online to chat one-on-one with a support specialist.

National Domestic Violence Hotline: Call 1−800−799−7233 or TTY 1−800−787−3224 or visit online to chat one-on-one with a support specialist.

National Human Trafficking Resource Center: Call 1-888-373-7888 (TTY: 711) Text 233733 or visit online to chat one-on-one with a support specialist.

Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network’s (RAINN) National Sexual Assault Hotline: Call 800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit rainn.org to chat one-on-one with a trained RAINN support specialist, any time 24/7.

Victim Connect: Call or text 1-855-4VICTIM (1-855-484-2846) or visit online to chat one-on-one with a support specialist.

1in6: The mission of 1 in 6 is to help men who have had unwanted or abusive sexual experiences in childhood live healthier, happier lives. This organization also serves family members, friends, and partners and service providers by providing information and support resources on the web and in the community.

American Association of University Women (AAUW): AAUW conducts groundbreaking research on issues related to gender equity in education and the workplace.

American College Health Association Sexual Violence Toolkit: The American College Health Association developed this toolkit to provide facts, ideas, strategies, conversation starters, and resources to everyone on college campuses who cares about the prevention of sexual violence.

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: This website provides professional publications about violence against women, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, adolescent dating violence, and patient education materials in both English and Spanish.

American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC): This national nonprofit organization is focused on meeting the needs of professionals engaged in all aspects of services for children and families affected by child abuse and neglect.

Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA): The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers is an international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to preventing sexual abuse.

Black Women’s Blueprint (BWB): This organization works to place the particular struggles of Black women and girls squarely within the context of the larger racial justice concerns of Black communities.

Center for Sex Offender Management: The goal of the Center for Sex Offender Management is to enhance public safety by preventing further victimization through improving the management of adult and juvenile sex offenders in the community.

Clery Center for Security on Campus: The goal of this organization is to work with college and university communities to create safer campuses, including providing Clery Act training seminars. Under the Jeanne Clery Act of 1990, institutions must provide survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking with options such as changes to academic, transportation, or living or working situations, and assistance in notifying local law enforcement, if the student or employee chooses to do so.

Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking: The Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking, established in 1998, is a multi-ethnic human rights organization whose mission is to assist persons trafficked for the purpose of forced labor and slavery-like practices and to work toward ending all instances of such human rights violations.

Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States: A Guide for the Health Care Sector: This Institute of Medicine report summarizes the trafficking problem of minors and includes examples of health care sector practices to prevent and respond.

End Rape on Campus (EROC): EROC works to end campus sexual violence through direct support for survivors and their communities; prevention through education; and policy reform at the campus, local, state, and federal levels.

End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI): EVAWI provides technical assistance on the law enforcement response to sexual assault and Violence Against Women Act forensic compliance.

Expanding and Coordinating Human Trafficking-Related Public Health Research, Evaluation, Education, and Prevention: Policy statement from the American Public Health Association for professional schools, societies, and certifying bodies for to improvement of research, training, and anti-trafficking community interventions.

FaithTrust Institute: Formerly known as the Center for the Prevention of Domestic and Sexual Violence, FaithTrust Institute is an interreligious, educational resource that addresses sexual and domestic violence issues.

Futures Without Violence: Striving to reach new audiences and transform social norms, the organization trains professionals such as doctors, nurses, athletic coaches, and judges on improving responses to violence and abuse.

Generation Five: Generation Five is a nonprofit organization that brings together diverse community leaders working to end child sexual abuse within five generations.

Getting attention for prevention: This brief, developed by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and Berkeley Media Studies Group, provides guidance on how to frame sexual violence and construct messages about prevention.

Hollaback!: Hollaback! is a movement to end harassment powered by a network of local activists around the world. Members work together to better understand harassment ignite public conversations, and develop innovative strategies to ensure equal access to public spaces.

ICD-10 Codes for Healthcare Providers: Healthcare providers and hospitals who are seeing an increase in human trafficking cases can use ICD-10-CM codes to differentiate victims of human trafficking from other abuse victims.

MaleSurvivor: MaleSurvivor creates resources and partnerships to provide life-changing support to adult male survivors of child sexual abuse and their loved ones.

Men Can Stop Rape (MCSR): MCSR is a national nonprofit organization. MCSR’s mission is to mobilize men to use their strength for creating cultures free from violence, especially men’s violence against women.

National Alliance to End Sexual Violence (NAESV): NAESV utilizes a comprehensive grassroots communication network to shape national policy related to sexual violence and victims’ needs. NAESV advocates on behalf of victims and survivors—, women, children, and men who have needlessly suffered the serious trauma of sexual violence —and envisions a world free from sexual violence.

National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC): NCVC is a nonprofit organization that serves victims of all types of crime, including sexual violence. The Center provides public policy advocacy; training and technical assistance to victim service organizations, counselors, attorneys, criminal justice agencies, and allied professionals; a toll-free hotline for crime victims; and a virtual library containing publications, current statistics with references, a list of recommended readings, and bibliographies.

National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence (NCDSV): NCDSV develops and provides innovative training and consultation, influences policy, and promotes collaboration and diversity in working to end domestic and sexual violence.

National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL): NCALL’s mission is to eliminate abuse in later life. Through advocacy and education, NCALL strives to challenge and change the beliefs, policies, practices, and systems that allow abuse to occur and continue.

National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP): NCAVP is a coalition of programs that document and advocate for victims of anti-LGBT and anti-HIV/AIDS violence, harassment, domestic violence, sexual assault, police misconduct and other forms of victimization.

National Organization of Asians and Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence (NAPIESV): NAPIESV provides technical assistance and support to local and community-based programs and governmental organizations serving survivors of violence against women to develop or enhance their capacity to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services to Asian and Pacific Islander survivors of sexual violence.

National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault: This national organization supports women of color and organizations by and for communities of color, using a multi-strategy approach.

National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC): NSVRC identifies and disseminates information, resources, and research on all aspects of sexual violence prevention and intervention.

NO MORE: NO MORE seeks to raise public awareness and engage bystanders around ending domestic violence and sexual assault.

Polaris Project: To eradicate human trafficking across borders and strengthen services for victims, Polaris galvanizes regional collaboration among service providers, governments, and law enforcement entities to share data, strategies, and resources. Polaris has discovered the potential of a hotline to function as a coordination mechanism for the anti-trafficking movement.

PreventConnect: PreventConnect is a national project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault. The goal of PreventConnect is to advance the primary prevention of sexual assault and relationship violence by building a community of practice among people who are engaged in such efforts.

Prevention Institute: Prevention Institute is a non-profit national center dedicated to improving community health and well-being by building momentum for effective primary prevention.

Raliance: Raliance is a collaborative initiative dedicated to ending sexual violence in one generation and is a resource for policymakers, advocates, service providers, prevention practitioners, and the media. It is comprised of three national sexual violence prevention organizations: thee National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), the California Coalition Against Sexual Assaults (CALCASA)-PreventConnect, and the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence (NAESV).

SOAR to Health and Wellness Training: SOAR training equips professionals with skills to identify, treat, and respond appropriately to human trafficking.

Stop Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct, and Exploitation (S.E.S.A.M.E.): S.E.S.A.M.E. works to prevent sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment of students by teachers and other school staff.

STOP IT NOW!: STOP IT NOW! is a national, public health-based organization working to prevent and ultimately eradicate child sexual abuse.

Stop Street Harassment: Stop Street Harassment (SSH) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to documenting and ending gender-based street harassment worldwide.

VAWnet: VAWnet.org has long been identified as an unparalleled, comprehensive, go-to source of information and resources for anti-violence advocates, human service professionals, educators, faith leaders, and others interested in ending domestic and sexual violence.

Workplaces Respond to Domestic and Sexual Violence: A National Resource Center: The Center offers information on the Internet for the benefit of those interested in providing effective workplace responses to victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, dating violence and stalking.