17 years on, military sexual assault prevention is ‘early in development’: Pentagon report
By Meghann Myers
Mar 31, 05:07 PM
A Defense Department report found that sexual assault prevention efforts are falling short. (Army)
After nearly two decades of specific efforts across the military to tackle an entrenched, widespread sexual assault and harassment problem, the services are still having a hard time with the prevention part.
Those are the findings from a series of on-site installation evaluations the Defense Department undertook in 2021. In fact, slides shared with reporters on Thursday show that DoD still considers its sexual assault prevention infrastructure “early in development.”
“So in terms of our progress, over the past several years, we’ve really built our prevention approaches around the evolving public health and prevention science for ... sexual assault, as well as the other areas,” including sexual harassment, suicide and domestic violence, which the evaluations also covered, Andra Tharp, the senior prevention advisor for the office of force resiliency, told reporters. “And that literature has really been growing and giving us more tools, now more than ever.”
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/03/31/17-years-on-military-sexual-assault-prevention-is-early-in-development-pentagon-report/
