TDH Booklet4 - Texas Association Against Sexual Assault

Plan for Action
Plan for Action
RESOURCES, RESEARCH, and DATA
Texans must have access to, and utilize effectively, a multitude
of resources, research and data in order to stop sexual assault,
domestic violence and stalking.
Recommendation:
Identify and secure necessary resources to implement the
strategic plan.
Strategies:
1. Identify potential funding sources, write grant proposals,
and publicize plan and successes.
2. Use existing resources creatively.
Partners:
Texas Department of Health – Family Planning Division, Texas
Association Against Sexual Assault, Department of Human
Services – Family Violence Prevention Program, Texas Council
on Family Violence, South Texas Family Planning Health
Corporation, Migrant Clinicians Network
Recommendation:
Evaluate and report benefits of prevention activities for sexual
assault, domestic violence and stalking in Texas.
Strategies:
1. Create workgroup of academic and state entities involved
with relevant research/studies to develop Texas-specific
cost estimates of sexual assault, domestic violence and
stalking.
2. Conduct an empirically based evaluation of existing
prevention efforts in order to conduct a cost/benefit
analysis.
3. Build on current research to examine the relationship
between social indicators and sexual assault, domestic
violence and stalking.
Partners:
Texas Department of Health – Family Planning Division, Texas
Association Against Sexual Assault, University of Texas –
Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Texas
Department of Human Services – Family Violence Prevention
Program, Texas Council on Family Violence, Texas Office of
Attorney General – Sexual Assault Prevention and Crisis
Services Program, South Texas Family Planning Health
Corporation, Migrant Clinicians Network
41 A STRATEGIC PLAN TO PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN TEXAS