How to Measure a Sense of Community
Feeling connected in your community is a protective factor against the risk of perpetrating sexual violence.
Brief Sense of Community Scale
The Brief Sense of Community Scale (BSCS) is a measure of sense of community that was published in Peterson, Speer & McMillan (2008). This scale was designed to assess the dimensions of needs fulfillment, group membership, influence, and emotional connection.
Assessing Our Capacity for Serving Male Survivors of Sexual Violence
Sexual assault advocates and rape crisis centers can use this self-assessment tool to reflect on your current work serving men who have had unwanted sexual experiences. The tool offers reflection questions related to individual and organizational capacity to serve male survivors. This resource is part of Working with Male Survivors of Sexual Violence.
Using an Indigenous Circle Process for Evaluation
Learn how Indigenous values can be incorporated into a new model for evaluation.
Data Equity Makes Sure We All Count
On this episode, we discuss how data equity is critical to prevention work.
Self-Study Plan: Qualitative Evaluation (Intermediate)
This self-study guide, which is a part of the Evaluation Toolkit, focuses on increasing knowledge and skills around qualitative methods (focus groups, interviews, and other non-numerical data collection and evaluation). It includes up to 5 hours of online training options, as well as, in-person training opportunities. Using this plan will help learners understand the benefits and drawbacks of collecting qualitative data for program evaluation, several methods for collecting observational data, and basic tools for collecting and analyzing qualitative data.
Self-Study Plan: Integrated, Creative, and Participatory Evaluation Approaches (Intermediate)
This self-study guide, which is a part of the Evaluation Toolkit, focuses on integrated, creative, and participatory approaches to evaluation. It includes up to 6 hours of online training options, as well as, in-person training opportunities. This intermediate level plan will assist learners in describing the benefits of using participatory approaches to evaluation, identifying creative evaluation approaches, and developing a plan for integrating participatory options into evaluation work.
Publish Date
June 2018
Self-Study Plan: Evaluation Beyond Individual and Relationship-Level Changes (Intermediate)
This self-study guide, which is part of the Evaluation Toolkit, includes up to 5 hours of online training options, as well as, in-person training opportunities to help learners identify and describe methods for evaluating community, societal and policy-change efforts and the similarities and differences between evaluating individual changes and system-level changes.
Publish Date
June 2018
The Resource Spring/Summer 2017
The Spring/Summer 2017 edition of The Resource explores how researchers at Rutgers University collaborated to create a campus climate tool. They share lessons learned and measurable steps for other schools considering climate assessments. The issue also includes:
- How RESTORE Sexual Assault Services works with campuses in New York
- The work #LoveWITHAccountability is doing to end child sexual abuse
- Services offered through the uSafeNH app
- How Iowa's service transition allowed them to reach more survivors
- And more!