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What is the DELTA Grant Trying to Prevent?
DELTA has been classified as an intimate partner violence project at the CDC emphasizing intimate partner domestic violence (IP-DV). IP-DV is where one partner in an intimate relationship uses physical violence, sexual violence, threats of physical or sexual violence, psychological/emotional abuse, stalking and/or economic abuse to establish a pattern of coercive power and control over his/her intimate partner. The DELTA project is not trying to prevent domestic violence that might be classified as: child abuse, due to organic brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, elder abuse by caretakers, adult children or other non-intimates, violence initiated in self-defense, violence initiated by drugs, one time violence incidents that are not supported by or result in a pattern of coercive control. Please see the attached document titled, What are We Trying to Prevent? for more information.
What Does the CDC Mean by Prevention Enhancement?
Prevention enhancements do not include victim services, criminal justice or law enforcement approaches to violence prevention.
Traditionally coordinated community responses have focused on an immediate response to domestic violence through criminal/civil justice intervention and victim services after the violence has occurred. The DELTA program's goal is to support the integration of activities designed to prevent domestic violence from initially occurring, into a coordinated community response model. The CDC wants to have prevention strategies that include components from each of the following areas. Prevention activities must focus on individual, relationship, community and societal levels that contribute to the perpetration of domestic violence in our society. For example, at the societal level prevention efforts that address the historical patterns that promote gender inequality and glorify violence against women such as media campaigns and policy changes that support gender equality. At the community level prevention activities that address the institutional tolerance of domestic violence in attitudes and gender norms such as training, community education, and policy changes. At the relationship level prevention activities that focus on changing attitudes and beliefs of peers that support violence against women such as parent training and healthy relationship teen projects. At the individual level prevention activities that focus on changing attitudes about gender roles and social isolation including the use of domestic violence curriculums and mentoring projects.
Programs may take the first year of funding to develop their coordinated community partners and design prevention activities that include components focused at the individual, relationship, community and societal level. Implementation of the prevention strategies could follow in year two. The CDC will not fund proposed projects that do not include this comprehensive approach such as stand alone media campaigns or use of domestic violence curriculums.
