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TDH Booklet4 - Texas Association Against Sexual Assault

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Appendicies - A Plan Goals/Objectives<br />

existing organizational policies on sexual assault, domestic violence and<br />

stalking by September 2006 and on a continuing basis.<br />

Objective 2: Make available research-based tools, including evaluation methods, for<br />

incorporating training on sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking into<br />

existing curricula to medical, dental, nursing and other health care training<br />

schools via web-based and other mediums by December 2005.<br />

Objective 3: Encourage professional organizations and licensing boards to require<br />

health care professionals to take continuing education courses addressing<br />

the primary prevention of sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking by<br />

September 2006 and on a continuing basis.<br />

Objective 4: Make available research-based information on best practices, including<br />

evaluation tools, for pre-screening and universal screening for sexual<br />

assault, domestic violence and stalking to <strong>Texas</strong> health care providers via<br />

web-based and other mediums by September 2005.<br />

PRIORITY: PUBLIC AWARENESS<br />

Goal 1: Promote awareness that domestic violence, sexual assault, and<br />

stalking are public health issues.<br />

Objective 1: Implement appropriate sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking<br />

screening activities (including evaluation of process) in a proportion of<br />

family planning and maternal child health programs of <strong>Texas</strong> public health<br />

settings based on “promising practices” in the field, by January 2006 and<br />

on a continuing basis.<br />

Objective 2: Make available educational materials with the prevention message that<br />

sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking are unacceptable via webbased<br />

and other mediums to public health agencies, encouraging those<br />

entities to make these resources available to clients by January 2007.<br />

Goal 2: Develop and implement strategies for social change resulting in the<br />

prevention of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking.<br />

Objective 1: Use the Popular Education Model for Social Change and involve<br />

communities to train health professionals on issues related to sexual assault,<br />

domestic violence and stalking as an avenue of social change by January<br />

2005 and on a continuing basis.<br />

A STRATEGIC PLAN TO PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN TEXAS<br />

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