What We Do
Perpetration prevention programs offer a unique and world-changing opportunity to prevent the sexual abuse of children from happening in the first place. Through research, education, communication, and advocacy, we aim to increase awareness that child sexual abuse is a preventable public health problem. We provide insight and rigorous analysis about perpetration prevention for clinicians, researchers, policymakers, educators, funders, and industry.
Our Approach
Why It's Needed
Perpetration prevention is a critical, but underfunded and often neglected, part of global efforts to end child sexual abuse.
This needs to change. Prevention interventions are a necessity if we are to protect current and future generations of children from harm.
With increased access to research and resources, we now have an opportunity to focus deeply on prevention in coordination with efforts to support healing and justice for survivors.
Our Goals
- Increase global understanding and awareness that child sexual abuse is a preventable public health problem.
- Identify all available child sexual abuse perpetration prevention programs.
- Rigorously evaluate the most promising of these programs for effectiveness and implementation outcomes.
- Promote scalable solutions and provide open access to resources through our Global Perpetration Prevention Resource Center.
Program Types
Helplines
Helplines provide confidential resources via phone or chat, including self-help information.
Self-help websites
Designed to present information and other resources to individuals who are concerned they may perpetrate child sexual abuse, including use of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Peer-supported online forums
Aimed at individuals who recognize they have a sexual interest in children and look for guidance and information with a community.
Therapist-guided interventions
Involve a trained clinician and are typically held online. These programs are similar to self-help programs in that the materials are online and sometimes self-guided; they are also similar to clinic-based treatments because a professional is involved.
Institutional programs
Administered at an institutional level and are not targeted to individuals. Examples include school-based or tech platform-wide interventions.
Funding
Prevention Global is generously funded by the Oak Foundation’s Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Programme.
