Community mobilization initiatives for sexual and domestic violence survivors and their communities

This program focuses on building organizational capacity and strengthening the ability of organizations to deliver culturally specific programming for BIPOC communities to address sexual and/or domestic violence.

Community Mobilization Initiatives engage survivors and their communities, including youth, family, friends, neighbors, leaders, and other stakeholders, in taking community-wide responsibility for addressing sexual and domestic violence. Survivors and community members design and implement their own solutions to prevent and respond to domestic and sexual violence and to positively change social norms including attitudes, knowledge, skills, and behaviors with individuals, their social networks, institutions, and the broader community. 

Community mobilization recognizes that the most effective and enduring solutions should be grounded in the needs of, and accountable to, survivors, and come from survivors and community members themselves.

Current programming:

For FY25 the Division of Sexual and Domestic Violence Prevention Services has funded a 12-month project with The Network La Red focused on community mobilizing and capacity building with LGBTQIA+ survivors and community members.