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Intimate Partner Violence Prevention: Resource for Action (A Compilation of the Best Available Evidence)
This Prevention Resource presents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) and its consequences across the lifespan. These strategies include teaching safe and healthy relationship skills; engaging influential adults and peers; disrupting the developmental pathways toward IPV; creating protective environments; strengthening economic supports for families; and supporting survivors to increase safety and lessen harms. The strategies represented in this resource include those with a focus on preventing IPV, including teen dating violence (TDV), from happening in the first place or to prevent it from continuing, as well as approaches to lessen the immediate and long-term harms of partner violence. Commitment, cooperation, and leadership from numerous sectors, including public health, education, justice, health care, social services, business and labor, and government can bring about the successful implementation of this resource.
Why Preserving Archived CDC Pages Matters for Public Health
The impact of restricting access to public health information is far-reaching. Resources on domestic violence intervention, LGBTQIA+ health, reproductive rights, and infectious disease prevention are not just theoretical—they save lives. Ensuring that these materials remain widely available means that healthcare providers, educators, advocates, and the general public can continue to make informed, evidence-based decisions about their health and safety.
Sexual Violence Prevention: Resource for Action (A Compilation of the Best Available Evidence)
This Prevention Resource represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to reduce sexual violence (SV) and its consequences. These strategies focus on promoting social norms that protect against violence; teaching skills to prevent SV; providing opportunities, both economic and social, to empower and support girls and women; creating protective environments; and supporting victims/survivors to lessen harms. The strategies represented in this resource include those with a focus on preventing SV from happening in the first place as well as approaches to lessen the immediate and long-term harms of SV. Though the evidence for SV is still developing and more research is needed, the problem of SV is too large and costly and has too many urgent consequences to wait for perfect answers. There is a compelling need for prevention now and to learn from the efforts that are undertaken. Commitment, cooperation, and leadership from numerous sectors, including public health, education, justice, health care, social services, business/labor, and government can bring about the successful implementation of this resource.
Schools In Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 Schools
Creating a safe and inclusive school environment for transgender students is critical for their well-being and academic success. Schools in Transition provides practical guidance for educators, administrators, and parents on how to support transgender students through social transitions, legal considerations, and inclusive policies. With contributions from experts at the ACLU, Gender Spectrum, and the Human Rights Campaign, this guide offers best practices, real-life case studies, and actionable strategies to foster gender-inclusive learning spaces.
Trump’s Latest Executive Order: “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation”
This executive order represents a significant policy shift in how the federal government approaches gender-affirming care for minors. It directs multiple agencies—including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Department of Defense (DOD)—to restrict access to puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and gender-related surgeries for children by eliminating federal funding, changing insurance coverage, and increasing legal scrutiny of medical providers.
Breaking Down Trump’s DEI Order
President Trump’s recent executive order dismantles federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives, and environmental justice initiatives. This brief, yet sweeping executive order disarms these initiatives by overturning decades of bipartisan policy that was designed to address systemic inequities, overriding it with less than 1000 words.
Trump’s 2 Gender Order: Breaking Down Executive Order 13988
Executive Order 13988 was released under the presidency of Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. It lays out a framework prioritizing a rigid, chromosomal definition of sex, framing it as fixed and binary. This approach dismisses gender entirely, portraying it as a threat to sex assigned at birth—and, more radically, rejecting the idea that sex is "assigned" at birth at all, asserting instead that it is determined at conception.
RFK Jr., the World Health Organization, and the Future of American Healthcare
As we move forward into another iteration of Trump’s America, we aim to address exactly what these political shake-ups mean for healthcare in general—and sexual health in particular. Let’s get a clear-eyed look at the new administration’s impact on public health initiatives: in particular, the intent to withdraw from the World Health Organization, and the implications of someone like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taking the front seat.