Citation

McMahon S, Steiner JJ, Snyder S, Banyard VL. Trauma Violence Abuse 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Center on Violence Against Women & Children, School of Social Work, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1524838019883275

PMID

31690226

Abstract

There are calls for sexual violence prevention to be more comprehensive and align with a socio-ecological approach. However, there is lack of models with specificity on how to engage additional stakeholders. Whole School Approach (WSA) frameworks have been used to address health promotion and bullying prevention and can be a useful model for guiding campus sexual violence prevention work. WSA models situate violence as a community issue and one where all community members have a role to play in prevention. Rather than focusing on addressing individual behavior, WSA frameworks address the role of the larger school environment in serving as a protective factor against violence, abuse, and harassment. A review of the literature on WSA frameworks in other disciplines reveals a number of potential ways to translate key elements of WSA models to the field of campus sexual violence prevention. In particular, mechanisms can be applied to expand the role of students, faculty, staff, parents/significant adults, institutional leadership, and the larger community.

Language: en

Keywords

prevention; sexual assault; whole school approach