Child Sexual Abuse – Resource Kit
The Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) team, together with the Child Sexual Abuse Spoke advisors within A Bolder Way Forward, have curated a collection of recommended resources. This includes UWLP research and materials as well as valuable contributions from statewide and national community partners and organizations. To get involved in positive change, take action by exploring what you can do as individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Research Reports
- Child Sexual Abuse Statistics - 2023 [Spanish]
- Child Sexual Abuse: Research Summary - 2024
- Child Sexual Abuse: What Utahns Need to Know - 2025
- Women’s Safety & Security: Utahn’s Awareness, Understanding, and Attitudes - 2025
- Women’s Safety & Security 2025: Utahns’ Awareness, Understanding, and Attitudes - 2026
Podcasts & Videos
- Podcast: A Bolder Way Forward Conversations: Child Sexual Abuse
- Podcast: New Research: Child Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment & Gender-Based Discrimination
- Podcast: Understanding Child Sexual Abuse in Utah
- Podcast: Women’s Safety & Security: Child Sexual Abuse & Sexual Assault
- Video: A Bolder Way Forward – Child Sexual Abuse
- Video: Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse: Steps We Can Take
Handouts & Articles
- 1 In 5 Utah Girls Were Sexually Assaulted Last Year. That Has to Stop (Deseret News, 2020)
- Child Sexual Abuse: What Utahns Need to Know (LinkedIn, 2025)
- Child Sexual Abuse: What Utahns Need to Know
- Prevention Education in Schools
- Protecting Children Conversation Guide: Child Sexual Abuse in Utah
- These Mothers Have to Send Their Children into Abusive Situations. We Can Change That (Deseret News, 2023)
- Utah Has a Problem with Violence against Women. There’s a Clear Solution (The Salt Lake Tribune, 2024)
- We Must Confront Child Sexual Abuse (Deseret News, 2022)
Community Resources
- About Child Abuse (Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention, CDC)
- Child Sexual Abuse Prevention (Saprea)
- Education (Utah Children’s Justice Center Program)
- Healing (Malouf Foundation)
- Healing From Sexual Abuse (Saprea)
- Home Visiting Programs (Prevent Child Abuse Utah)
- Resources for Parents, Caregivers, and Children (Johns Hopkins Moore Center, Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse)
- Responding to Disclosures of Child Abuse (National Criminal Justice Training Center)
- The PortAll (Generationall)
- Understand the Issue of Child Sexual Abuse (Saprea)
- What to Do If A Child Discloses Abuse (Utah Children’s Justice Center Program)
- What to Say (or Not Say) to Victims of Abuse: A Resource for Faith Leaders (Utah Children’s Justice Center Program)
If you have any changes or additions, please email UWLP@usu.edu.
- Child Abuse Prevention: Community-Based Training (National Children’s Advocacy Center)
- Child Abuse Professionals (National Children’s Advocacy Center)
- Community Education Classes (Saprea)
- Education (Malouf Foundation)
- Keeping Utah’s Children Safe: Curriculum (Prevent Child Abuse Utah)
- School & Community Prevention Programs (Prevent Child Abuse Utah)
- Darkness to Light
- Family Haven
- GenerationAll
- Johns Hopkins Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse
- Malouf Foundation
- National Children’s Advocacy Center
- Prevent Child Abuse America
- Prevent Child Abuse Utah
- Saprea
- The Children’s Center Utah
- The Policy Project (The Safe Child Project)
- Utah Children’s Justice Center Program
- Utah Women & Leadership Project