Primary Prevention Integration Plan
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Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program
Primary Prevention Integration Plan
(Building Organizational Capacity)
Step 1: Organizational Self-Assessment
DUE: MONDAY, JULY 9, 2012 at 5:00 PM
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and CALCASA are committed to supporting California's Rape Crisis Centers to provide prevention programs in their communities. Working to end sexual violence over the long term requires that organizations have capacity and willingness to "own" their primary prevention role and comprehensively integrate primary prevention into their organizational infrastructures. For example, primary prevention is included in the mission statement, and all staff members feel competent and confident in promotion or delivering primary prevention activities.
This self-assessment is meant to serve as a technical assistance and planning tool. The questions are designed to measure against specific benchmarks and are posed for the purpose of self-reflection and analysis to facilitate ongoing improvements. It is not realistic to expect that rape crisis centers will give themselves the highest score on each of these benchmarks. A true assessment should reveal areas that need improvement. Your agency's assessment will not be used to monitor your CDPH grant, but will help CALCASA tailor training and technical assistance activities, and will identify priority needs to be addressed when developing your Primary Prevention Integration Plan (as required by CDPH).
In completing your self-assessment, we encourage you to include input from a variety of individuals in your organization, including the Executive Director, prevention staff, and others. This may involve a meeting to discuss the questions and responses prior to completing the assessment online. The online assessment is designed so that you can work on it, save your information, and go back as needed.
This assessment focuses on primary prevention activities. Primary prevention is changing the social norms that allow and condone violence and prevents violence before it starts. Primary prevention involves work across all levels of the social ecological model, targeting attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, environments and policies to eliminate those that contribute to violence and promote those that prevent violence. For further clarification on the activities that count as primary prevention work (as opposed to awareness raising, community outreach, etc.), please contact CDPH or CALCASA.
Additionally, for the purpose of this assessment process, the terms agency, organization, and center are used interchangeably to define your rape crisis program.
If you have questions about this assessment, please contact Alexis Marbach at alexis.marbach@calcasa.org
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