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Nearly 5.3 million incidents of intimate partner violence occur each year among U.S. women ages 18 and older, and 3.2 million incidents occur among men. All forms of intimate partner violence can be prevented. |
Grants Available for Primary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence
The CDC Foundation has received a $3.2 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help prevent intimate partner violence. The grant will enable CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention to help state-level domestic violence coalitions incorporate primary prevention strategies into their overall domestic violence programming.
This project builds on the success of a current CDC program called Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA) through which CDC funds 14 state-level domestic violence coalitions to conduct prevention efforts in their states and local communities. This new opportunity is called the DELTA PREP project (Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership Through Alliances Preparing and Raising Expectations for Prevention).
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What is DELTA PREP?
DELTA PREP will prepare up to 20 state-level domestic violence coalitions to support efforts to prevent first occurrences of intimate partner violence, known as primary prevention. This project builds on the successes of CDC's DELTA Program through which CDC funds 14 domestic violence coalitions to conduct primary prevention efforts in their states and local communities.
DELTA PREP is a capacity building project for state domestic violence coalitions not currently receiving CDC's DELTA funds. Selected coalitions will be asked to make a 3 year commitment to the project. In return, DELTA PREP coalitions will receive funding, training and support to build a foundation for enhancing primary prevention efforts in their state.
The specific opportunities that will be offered through DELTA PREP include:
- Training and technical assistance on primary prevention concepts
- Focused time and structure for coalition staff and leaders to assess how primary prevention fits within the coalition's mission and scope of work
- A planning process that guides coalitions through setting primary prevention goals and action steps in annual cycles
- Ongoing technical assistance and support from the CDC and DELTA-funded coalition "coaches"
- Funding for travel to training as well as staff and leadership time dedicated to DELTA PREP activities
- National opportunities to network with other state domestic violence coalitions, share experiences and participate in state-of-the-art technology supports for violence prevention work
- Additional funds available in years two and three to incorporate primary prevention within coalition practices and partnerships
What are the differences between the current DELTA program and the new DELTA PREP project?
The purpose of DELTA PREP is to prepare domestic violence coalitions to eventually incorporate primary prevention in their overall approach and programming to violence prevention. The emphasis on "preparation" means that the training and other resources offered through the project are primarily intended to help coalition staff and leadership identify a "starting point" for incorporating primary prevention within their coalitions. We expect that coalitions will differ somewhat on their familiarity with primary prevention concepts, organizational characteristics, priorities and state contexts. Therefore, we also expect the goals and action steps coalitions prioritize as their starting point to differ by coalition.
The common theme we expect across all coalitions is that the goals and action steps that constitute the "starting point" will increase participating coalitions' capacity to support primary prevention within their states. By the end of three years, we anticipate participants will have implemented some of their action steps and will be in the process of implementing others.
Unlike the DELTA Program, this project will not include funding for local programs (i.e., Community Coordinated Response Teams or CCRs), nor the related responsibility of building the capacity of CCRs to do primary prevention work. In addition, the project will not include the same planning process as the DELTA Program, although many of the planning concepts used by DELTA states will be applied to shorter planning cycles intended to help coalitions identify at least one priority area to work on each year of the project.
To find out more about the DELTA Program go to: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/DELTA
Who is eligible to apply for DELTA PREP?
Applicants must be one of the 36 state or the Washington, D.C. domestic violence coalitions or dual domestic and sexual violence coalitions that do not receive DELTA Program funding.
Key Dates and Deadlines
January 9, 2009: |
Notification of Intent due by 5:00 p.m. EST |
January 8-9, 2009: |
Optional applicant information conference calls |
January 30, 2009: |
Completed application due by 5:00 p.m. EST |
March 6, 2009: |
Notification of award status |
April 1, 2009: |
Start of year 1 award period |
DELTA PREP Key Dates and Deadlines through June 2009 - PDF
DELTA PREP Request for Application - PDF
DELTA PREP Request for Application FAQ- PDF
To find out more about DELTA PREP contact:
Kimberley Freire, Ph.D., M.P.H.
DELTA PREP Project Director
CDC Foundation Senior Fellow
kfreire@cdc.gov
770-488-4994