Resistance to violent behavior requires work on three levels:

• The individual: both women and men must engage in resisting violence, albeit in different ways oftentimes.
• The local community: Most true social change only occurs when an entire community is committed to making that change, even if it takes a long time. The community might be a small group of people who have connections to a survivor, or an athletic team, a fraternity house, a neighborhood, a university campus, or even a whole city. If you want to get directly involved, there are several avenues available:
• Sexual Assault Resource Agency and Shelter for Help in Emergency both depend on volunteers to staff the 24-hour hotline. They also have Community Education programs the rely on volunteers. The UVa Women's Center's Young Women Leaders Program gives UVA women students an opportunity to empower middle-school girls. And the Office of Sexual and Domestic Violence Services has programs that students can get involved with as well.
• UVa students can get involved with the Sexual Assault Leadership Council and join a peer education group. 
• The world: Individual and community-level work has a ripple-effect, and can ultimately improve the lives of all human beings. Global change can happen in small ways: by writing a letter of complaint to an advertising agency, by lobbying your Congressional and state elected officials, working through the internet or by forming coalitions with groups around the world. Join organizations such as NOW, the Feminist Majority Foundation, Amnesty International, or locally, groups such as the Virginia Organizing Project, that link sexism and violence with other forms of oppression.