• According to the 2015 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NIPSVS), 19.5% of women in New Mexico (NM) during their lifetime, and 34.4% of those have been victims of rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner.
• NIPSVS data show that sexual violence in youth, without appropriate trauma-informed interventions, can result in immediate and lifelong consequences. Certain populations are at greater risk for sexual violence, including LGBTQ, American Indians, people living with disabilities, African Americans, immigrants, children, and women.
• This work is connected to the implementation of the NM – Sexual Violence Free: A Statewide Strategic Plan for the Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence 2015-2020.
• In FY19, The Epidemiology and Response Division Sexual Violence Prevention Program (SVPP) will address the issue through a social-ecological approach where prevention is addressed through multi-levels: individual, relationship, community, and societal. Many approaches are focused on the individual and relationship level.
• The Sexual Violence Prevention Program will work with partners to lower the sexual assault rate by implementing multi-level prevention strategies by training 3600 New Mexican school age youth on an evidence-based or evidence-supported sexual assault primary prevention program. The program will also continue to support community and societal prevention strategies which reach multiple age groups and institutions.

• NMDOH
• New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs
• Rape Crisis Center of Central New Mexico
• Community Against Violence
• Sexual Assault Services of Northwest New Mexico
• Silver Regional Sexual Assault Services
• Valencia Shelter Services
• Aging and Long-Term Service Department - Adult Protective Services
• Attorney General’s Office
• University of New Mexico Prevention Resource Center
• Disability Advisory Group about Tobacco/Sexual Assault

• According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are nine recommended best practices for effective prevention. These include strategies that consist of multi-levels, involve teaching methods that are varied and interactive, have multi-sessions, are theory driven, promote positive relationships between youth and adults, are appropriately timed, consider the local culture and community norms, have a well-trained staff, and complete an outcome evaluation.
• Due to relatively few evidence-based programs (like Safe Dates), there is interest in evidence-informed programs that use the recommended best practices. In order to support and research these programs, process evaluation is also recommended.
• In FY17, New Mexicans received evidence-based sexual violence prevention education. Evaluation data shows that these programs were effective in changing norms that are risk factors. Effective prevention increases protective factors, and decreases risk factors (i.e. adherence to traditional gender roles).

• The NMDOH Epidemiology and Response Division, Office of Injury Prevention (OIP) works with partners around the state to provide education to youth and adults who work with youth for the primary prevention of sexual violence. All programs were evaluated using standardized measures beginning in FY16. Evaluation data show that youth who completed a Sexual Violence Primary Prevention funded program have lower acceptance of couple violence, lower acceptance of rape myth, higher acceptance of flexible gender norms, and are more likely to intervene as bystanders to interrupt instances of sexual violence. These measures increase protective factors and decrease risk factors. By changing rigid gender norms and creating more active bystanders, incidence of sexual violence can be reduced. 
• OIP will increase the number of New Mexicans who have completed an evidence-based sexual assault primary prevention program.

• Q1: Deliver evidence-based primary prevention programming to at least 600 youth in New Mexico. Incomplete - The Sexual Violence Prevention Program worked with contractors to finalize contract terms and get contracts in place. The first primary prevention team meeting was held to prepare prevention educators for the current and upcoming quarters. The statewide communications campaign “It Starts With Us" increased its reach on social media.
• Q2: Deliver evidence-based primary prevention programming to at least 1,200 youth in New Mexico. Provide state wide technical assistance to partners working on environmental-level strategies for sexual violence prevention.
• Q3: Deliver evidence-based primary prevention programming to at least 1,200 youth in New Mexico.
• Q4: Deliver evidence-based primary prevention programming to at least 800 youth in New Mexico.

The Sexual Violence Prevention Program has demonstrated consistent achievement with its milestones and has exceeded the cumulative target.  With FY18 ending and FY19 starting, SVPP is continually engaged in its training and providing an effective program to address this public health burden.