About This Website

The End Sexual Violence Oregon website is sponsored by the Prevention and Education Committee of the Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force.

We believe that:

• primary prevention efforts must focus simultaneously on males' perpetration of sexual violence as well as on raising the status of women and girls;

• that all efforts must include the involvement of both men and women to be successful; and

• that the problem is of such as pervasive scope that it must be solved with assistance from all members of Oregon's communities.

Nationwide, there appears to be a paradigm shift occurring where the focus of prevention efforts are changing to reflect the understanding that:

prevention means eliminating the roots causes of violence
and preventing assault from ever occurring.

As a result, prevention programs focusing on victim services, self-protection, harm reduction, telling men that rape is bad, and emphasizing "no means no", are beginning to shift focus to:

• identifying and enhancing healthy social norms;

• addressing bystander intervention;

• identifying risk factors for victimization or perpetration; and

• addressing these risk factors as part of primary prevention programming.

Many of these trends are based on the public health model and work by researchers such as Nan Stein, Jackson Katz, Alan Berkowitz, Paul Schewe and others.

Excerpted from Recommendations to Prevent Sexual Violence in Oregon: A Plan of Action

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Contact Information

Phone: (503) 990-6541
Fax: (503) 990-6547
E-mail: taskforce@oregonsatf.org
Website: www.oregonsatf.org

Mailing Address

859 Liberty Street NE
Salem, Oregon 97301