National Sexual Assault Conference 2023: Developing an Action Plan to Address School-Based Prevention Programming Resistance

The 2023 National Sexual Assault Conference® was held in San Francisco, California, August 22-24. The conference theme, Equity in Action, called for conference participants to fearlessly pursue a world free from sexual violence and address change across systems and institutions. This session was part of the Prevention track, sponsored by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center with funding from the Centers for Disease Control Prevention and recorded with funding from the California Department of Public Health. Learn more and access session materials here.

Staff from PreventConnect and VALOR key themes and strategies in navigating pushback on efforts to implement sexual and domestic violence prevention programming in K-12 schools. Participants engage in peer learning to create individual action plans to identify solutions and advance prevention efforts in their own communities.

Speakers:

Ashleigh Klein-Jimenez, Janae Sargent, Shelby Vice