TDH Booklet4 - Texas Association Against Sexual Assault
TDH Booklet4 - Texas Association Against Sexual Assault
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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