Research | National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)

Sexual Violence and Opioids - Annotated Bibliography

  This annotated bibliography explores research from 2009 to 2019 on the relationship between opioid use and sexual victimization.

Using Risk and Protective Factors in Prevention

These two examples show how we can use our knowledge of risk and protective factors to prevent sexual violence in the real world.

Introducing the Risk and Protective Factors Infographic

Risk and protective factors are a framework of things that can increase or decrease the likelihood of sexual violence perpetration.

Race and the Opioid Epidemic

For the last several years, the opioid epidemic has been making headlines with growing frequency. From political podiums to religious pulpits, from Facebook comments to front page news, e...

The Cost of Rape

Sexual violence exacts a high toll on survivors, their loved ones—and, ultimately, on all of us.

The Resource Fall 2018

The Fall 2108 edition of The Resource covers the CDC study on the lifetime cost of rape, as well as the National Coalition for Sexual Health's five action steps to good sexual health. The newsletter also spotlights the work of the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (MOCSA) and the upcoming Sexual Assault Awareness Month campaign, plus:

More about NSVRC's new director, Yolanda Edrington
Information about two new online toolkits
Four books from the NSVRC library you may be interested in reading

Responding to Survivors with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Overview for Sexual Assault Advocates

This guide was developed for local rape crisis advocates who may be asked to work with a survivor with autism.  It is a brief primer on autism, how persons who have autism may respon...

Reusing the news

This resource, part of the Media relations toolkit, provides examples of ways to reuse positive news coverage and respond to negative news coverage.

Planning media relations throughout the year

This resource, part of the Media relations toolkit, provides a brief calendar of holidays, anniversaries, and other observances that can be used as angles for talking about prevention. ...

Contributing to news coverage

This resource, part of the Media relations toolkit, explains how to use editorial pages, opinion pieces, and letters to the editor to bring attention to issues related to sexual violence ...