Child sexual abuse is a public health issue and to tackle that issue, we need to look at it from an evidence-informed Theory of Change that can guide programming development, advocacy initiatives, and training designs. Using a Theory of Change also allows us to attend to the individual, institutional, and societal factors, so an organization can successfully address systemic conditions to create prevention-oriented communities. Adopting a Social Behavioral Change Theory strategy provides organizations the ability to addresses two things; the target audience's willingness and ability to prevent abuse and to recognize that adults exist in a social system, all influencing each other's ability to affect change. To achieve this prevention paradigm, we will focus on the need for comprehensive prevention programming, advocacy for stakeholder engagement and ownership, and training to improve awareness and skills among adults. With a Theory of Change, the ultimate goal is that overtime, we will be able to witness and change the narrative: • Increased available resources for research, prevention community mobilization, policy implementation, and advocacy, • Reduced stigma around discussing the issue and toward those who report, take action to prevent child sexual abuse, • Increased faith in the system and the belief that organization and legal systems will work effectively for prevention, and when reports or suspicions are filed, • Increased accountability among adults who believe they are responsible for prevention and consistently take action to protect children. Each one of us has areas where our opinion holds some weight. It could be at our place of employment, on social media, with friend groups, in faith groups, or within our families. We consider your different spheres of influence and want you to think about the impact you can make within those spheres when it comes to protecting children. It is through those social circles and connections with our community that we can affect the greatest change. In this workshop, we will review what a Theory of Change is and what it means to enact it at an organization and even at an individual level. We will then spend time discovering and discussing where we all have influence and how we can use the power in those different spheres (whether it be our voice on social media, among friends or peers, in enacting policies at youth serving organizations, etc.). We will also address the barriers that we may face in creating prevention­ oriented communities, whether those barriers come from individuals, institutions, or perhaps are even cultural barriers. Lastly, we will spend time reviewing what an actual plan might look like in our community, drawing upon our individual strengths, the strengths of the organizations we work for, and the strengths of the communities in which we live. Participants will leave with tangible steps and the beginnings of a plan to implement.