Exploring Youth-Driven Prevention Campaigns

As part of our activities to celebrate Domestic Violence Awareness Month, VAWnet & NRCDV are hosting a BlogTalkRadio Show focused on primary prevention!

DATE: Tuesday, October 11th at 3pm Eastern/12 Pacific.

TOPIC: Sharing stories and lessons from the development and implementation of campaigns emphasizing peace and respect for youth in Alaska and Florida.

LOCATION: http://bit.ly/YouthDrivenPreventionBlogTalk

See the flyer for more information.

Register now at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2PZWBFT

As part of our activities to celebrate Domestic Violence Awareness Month, VAWnet & NRCDV are hosting a Twitter Town Hall focused on primary prevention!

DATE: Wednesday, October 19th at 3pm Eastern/12 Pacific.

TOPIC: How can we make “healthy relationships” cool for youth? Sharing strategies and lessons on the use of language and generational accessibility.

LOCATION: Twitter.com at #reachyouth.

See the flyer for more information.

Models in Prevention – CDC’s DELTA Program (August 2011) provides an overview of this national initiative to build organizational capacity and state leadership for the primary prevention of intimate partner violence, offers key prevention resources, and highlights initiatives, materials, and promising practices from all 14 DELTA States.

Nearly one decade after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiated the Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA) Program, there is a strong foundation of information and lessons learned regarding promising practices in the primary prevention of intimate partner violence. This collection highlights the successes of this program and its grantees, providing materials to support replication of these efforts across the United States and globally.

Special thanks to the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence (NCDSV), with whom NRCDV/VAWnet has a collaborative relationship to support the CDC Foundation’s DELTA and DELTA PREP grantees in their work to prevent intimate partner violence. In addition, we’d like to recognize VAWnet’s partner in prevention-focused resource provision and DELTA program support, PreventConnect.org.

Intimate Partner Homicide Prevention (July 2011) explores the most tragic consequence of domestic violence and offers a variety of tools and information towards its prevention. The collection outlines the scope of the problem; provides an overview of tools and strategies for assessing danger or the risk of lethality in domestic violence cases; recommendations and approaches for utilizing the fatality review process to prevent intimate partner homicide; materials describing various systems’ responses to domestic violence and efforts to prevent homicide; resources to assist advocates in helping to frame the issue through media response and community mobilization; and resources addressing the grief and trauma experienced by loved ones of those whose lives are lost to domestic violence.

This resource was developed by VAWnet and the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, with contributions from the Battered Women’s Justice Project, Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

ANNOUNCING A NEW SPECIAL COLLECTION!

The Intersection of Domestic Violence and the Military: Working across disciplines (May 2011) examines co-occurring issues experienced by veterans — including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and Military Sexual Trauma (MST) — and provides information related to best practices when addressing these co-occurring issues through a multi-systems approach. Challenges experienced by female service members and veterans are explored through the lens of violence against women.

A brief glossary of terms is included for your reference and to assist with understanding the information discussed within. This special collection is intended to expand on the previous collection Traumatic Brain Injury and Domestic Violence: Understanding the Intersections published by the NRCDV in March 2010.