Understanding health risks and promoting resilience in male youth with sexual violence experience

This Team grant tackles the hidden problem of sexual violence (SV)victimization among male youths, from early adolescence to young adulthood. SV reflects a range of unwanted, coercive and non-consensual experiences, from sexting to rape. SV (including terms as childhood sexual abuse/CSA, sexual coercion in dating relationships, sexual exploitation of adolescents and emerging adults) represents a human rights, public health, and gender-based issue. Global population estimates of male CSA (8%) are in-line with Canadian national estimates (5.8% before age 16), and provincial estimates (e.g., 8.3% in Ontario).In US Justice data, where assaults were reported to police, in about 7000 incidents reported over a 5 year period,