Interventions
These nine community organisations completed a rigorous six-month development stage to enhance their prevention of sexual violence programs and tailor their evaluations.
All program evaluations will adopt a realist approach, which aims to understand what works, for whom, and under what circumstances.
This methodology is particularly suited for complex interventions, as it accounts for the interactions between program components, participants, and the broader social context.
Brisbane Youth Service is located in Brisbane, Queensland and supports homeless and vulnerable young people and their children.
Brisbane Youth Service
SAGE+ Program
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The SAGE+ program is designed for young LGBTQ+ people (age 18-25) with lived experience of domestic, family and sexual violence and/or homelessness. The program aims to enhance LGBTQ+ young adults’ sense of community, self-esteem, and knowledge of safe and healthy relationships and create a trauma-informed space for LGBTQ+ young adults.
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The evaluation will employ quantitative and creative qualitative methods to gain in-depth insights into the program’s effectiveness in enhancing young adults’ (18 to 25) knowledge and skills surrounding safe relationships.
The design will include:
Interviews and focus groups
Pre- and post-surveys
Art-based data
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May 2025 - August 2026: Program Delivery
January - June 2027: Finalise evaluation and disseminate findings
Centre Against Violence is a Family Violence and Sexual Assault service located in Wangaratta, Wodonga and Benalla, providing services across the Ovens Murray region in Victoria.
Centre Against Violence
Tackling Consent Program
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The Tackling Consent program is designed for regional and rural junior sports clubs, players, parents, mentors and coaches. The program aims to improve young people’s understanding, attitudes, and behaviours related to sexual violence and harmful sexual behaviours within sporting club environments to foster a culture of respect and safety.
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The evaluation will use a case study design as part of a whole-of-Club approach, and it will include quantitative and qualitative data collection.
The design includes:
Interviews
Pre-and post surveys
Club profiles
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December 2025 - August 2026: Program Delivery
January - June 2027: Finalise evaluation and disseminate findings
Laurel House is located in North, North-East and North-West Tasmania and provides support to people experiencing sexual assault.
Laurel House
High School Program
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The program is designed for secondary school students in northern Tasmania, their parents, teachers, and school staff. It aims to educate students about the importance of consent, boundaries, and healthy relationships. The program includes sessions for students, an educational session for parents and caregivers, and a session for school staff to ensure a ‘whole-of-school approach’. Laurel House has partnered with Women’s Legal Service Tasmania.
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The evaluation of the Laurel House Schools Education Program will involve a longitudinal, mixed-methods approach, which will be assessed in a randomised controlled trial (RCT).
The design will include:
Pre and-post surveys
Interviews and focus groups
Fidelity sheets
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July 2025 - April 2026: Program delivery to intervention group
May - December 2026: Program delivery to control group
January - June 2027: Finalise evaluation and disseminate findings
Learning Consent is an Australian organisation that delivers comprehensive relationships, sexuality and consent education programs for educational institutions and organisations.
Learning Consent
Whole of School Program
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The program is designed for students from Prep/K to Secondary School and is delivered by teachers. The program aims to address the drivers of sexual violence by engaging students from early primary through to secondary school to challenge gender norms, harmful masculinities, and stereotypes that normalise harmful power dynamics in relationships and heighten the risk of sexual violence.
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The evaluation will use a longitudinal, mixed-methods approach to document the program's effectiveness. Student will receive two doses of the program, approximately 6-months a part.
The design will include:
Interviews and focus groups
Pre- and post-surveys
Fidelity sheets
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July 2025 - June 2026: Program delivery
January - June 2027: Finalise evaluation and disseminate findings
Prosper (Project Australia) inc. works to support disadvantaged children and families at home, at school and in the community across Australia.
Prosper Project Australia
Sort Your Safety Program
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Delivered in a partnership between Prosper and Rainbow Families, the Sort Your Safety program is designed for young LGBTQ+ people in NSW and WA. It aims to enhance participant understanding of sexual boundaries and increase connection to the community, self-esteem, and knowledge of healthy and respectful relationships.
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The evaluation will employ a combination of quantitative and creative qualitative methods to gain in-depth insights into the program’s effectiveness in enhancing young peoples’ (aged 16 to 18) knowledge and skills surrounding safe relationships.
The design will include:
Interviews and focus groups (photovoice)
Pre- and post-surveys
Reflection sheets
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June 2025 - July 2026: Program delivery
January - June 2027: Finalise evaluation and disseminate findings
Sexual Assault Support Service is located in Hobart and southern Tasmania and is a specialist sexual assault service that supports victim-survivors and the broader community.
Sexual Assault Support Service
CaRE Program
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The Tertiary CaRE program is designed for university students living in residential accommodation. It aims to prevent sexual harm by addressing its underlying drivers — including power dynamics, privilege, and harmful social norms.
CaRE builds students’ awareness of the prevalence of sexual harm, deepens their understanding of consent laws and bodily rights, and encourages reflection on personal and societal values. Students are supported to develop respectful, prosocial behaviours through practical skill-building.
The program includes communication practice for real-world scenarios involving intimacy and consent, strategies for navigating situations of non-consent, and bystander intervention skills.
SASS has partnered with the University of Tasmania to deliver CaRE, working towards safer and more respectful residential communities.
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The evaluation will involve a longitudinal, mixed-methods approach to document the program's effectiveness and will be assessed within a parallel three-arm cluster randomized-controlled trial (RCT).
The design will include:
Interviews and focus groups
Pre- and post-surveys
Fidelity sheets
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July - September 2025: Program delivery to intervention group
January - June 2027: Finalise evaluation and disseminate findings
Sexual Health Quarters is located in Perth, Western Australia and specialises in sexual and reproductive health.
Sexual Health Quarters
The Sisters Program
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The Sisters Program will be a sexual violence prevention education program for young people in custody, developed in collaboration with boys in a custodial setting and women in a pre-release centre. The program will aim to increase the boys’ self-esteem, understanding of power dynamics and consent, and ability to build healthy and respectful relationships.
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The evaluation will employ creative and qualitative methods to gain in-depth insights into the program’s effectiveness in enhancing boys’ (aged 10 to 17) knowledge and skills surrounding respectful relationships and consent.
The design will include:
Interviews and focus groups
Observational forms
Art-based data
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June - December 2025: Develop the program
February - September 2026: Program delivery
January - June 2027: Finalise evaluation and disseminate findings
Transforming Justice Australia provides community-based restorative justice responses to sexual abuse and related harm.
Transforming Justice Australia
REVIVE Prevention Program
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The REVIVE Prevention program supports men at risk of committing sexual harm by targeting key risk factors through a restorative justice approach. It focuses on challenging harmful attitudes and behaviours while helping participants build the skills necessary for healthy, respectful relationships and prosocial conduct.
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The evaluation will adopt a narrative approach to trace each man’s journey through the REVIVE Prevention program, capturing their experiences at multiple points.
The design will include:
Interviews and focus groups
Fidelity sheets
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July - December 2025: Program delivery
January - June 2027: Finalise evaluation and disseminate findings
Women’s Health in the South-East is located in the Southern Metropolitan region of Melbourne, Victoria and provides promotion, advocacy, support and education services for women’s health.
Women’s Health in the South-East
Parents as Partners Program
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The Parents as Partners program is designed for parents and caregivers of secondary school students. It aims to enhance the knowledge, skills, and confidence of parents and caregivers of young people in diverse school environments. The program discusses consent, healthy and respectful relationships, sex, sexuality, sexual health, and gender-Based violence, with a specific focus on sexual violence. WHISE has partnered with Sexual Health Victoria, Talking the Talk, and South-East Community Links.
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The evaluation will use a combination of quantitative and creative qualitative methods to gain in-depth insights into the program’s effectiveness in enhancing parents’/caregivers’ (parents) and young peoples’ (aged 12 to 16) knowledge, skills and behaviours surrounding safe relationships.
The design will include:
Interviews and focus groups
Pre- and post-surveys
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June 2025 - July 2026: Program delivery
January - June 2027: Finalise evaluation and disseminate findings