Virginia’s Guidelines for Preventing Sexual and Domestic Violence

Fostering Community Resilience: Virginia’s Guidelines for the Primary Prevention
of Sexual and
Domestic Violence

The purpose of Fostering Community Resilience: Virginia’s Guidelines for the Primary Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence is to assist local communities in creating primary prevention strategies that focus on identifying and dismantling the root causes of sexual and domestic violence. The Guidelines have been built on the foundations of two core concepts: social justice principles and public health models. Social justice and public health have a lot in common. They both seek to address health challenges (i.e., violence) by changing cultural norms, systems, and institutions while understanding that oppression is at the root of inequality and access to health.