Sexual Violence Services and Prevention

Associations between Recent Sexual Violence, Health Outcomes, and Risk Behaviors in New Mexico, 2016-2018

Three objectives were identified for evaluation: change norms surrounding the acceptability of sexual violence; create safer environments through changes to organizational policies and infrastructure; and increase the use of the public health approach in statewide sexual violence prevention efforts.

This report explains how New Mexico’s efforts to prevent sexual violence among youth have shown promising results. Primary prevention through school-based education appears to be effective in changing attitudes and knowledge related to sexual violence.