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Grantee SVPE-04
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Project Summary This community-wide primary prevention project is aimed at changing attitudes and behaviors that often precede sexual violence against women and girls. Community members called the “network” undertook three program initiatives that include: 1) research-based bullying prevention program, Steps to Respect, in public school classrooms; 2) implementing a dating violence prevention program for “at-risk” teens; and 3) implementing a sexual violence prevention program using university students as mentors to “at risk” teens. Evaluation Impacts
Summary: Fifth graders in Manhattan, KS, USD 383, received the Steps to Respect intervention during the 2005-2006 academic year. To compare these children to other fifth graders who did not receive the intervention, a comparison group of fifth graders from another school district in Kansas were also included in statistical analyses. Results are also shown for an evaluation of Steps to Respect from the previous academic year (2004-2005) to illustrate how these recent results compare to those from this previous study. Several positive effects for Steps to Respect found in 2004-05 were also apparent in 2005-2006. Steps to Respect may have an impact on empathy for victims and helpful bystanding. In the comparison schools, the proportion of children reporting empathy only “sometimes” or “almost never” was approaching 50% in the second half of the school year, whereas empathy was stable or increased in USD 383. |