DELTA Project

ODVN Selected to Continue Intimate Partner Violence Prevention by CDC

CDC Injury Center’s Division of Violence Prevention recently announced 10 State Domestic Violence Coalitions to receive funding as part of the new Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership Through Alliances, Focusing on Outcomes for Communities United with States (DELTA FOCUS) program. We are thrilled to announce that ODVN was one of the ten coalitions! 

As a result of this continued funding, ODVN is launching a new DELTA FOCUS initiative in collaboration with the Ohio Department of Health and the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence!  On March 26 members of the DELTA FOCUS Leadership Team, as well as members of the Ohio Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Consortium, met to begin laying plans for moving our shared prevention work out to the community and societal levels.  What will that look like?  Good question!  “All we know for sure is that our work will move forward collaboratively, as it has in the past! It doesn't make sense to do it any other way,” stated Rebecca Cline, Prevention Programs Director and ODVN staff lead on the DELTA FOCUS project. Stay tuned as ideas brainstormed at the Consortium and Leadership Team meetings will be considered. 

For more information about ODVN’s violence prevention efforts, contact Rebecca Cline, ODVN Prevention Programs Director at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

 

Funded originally in September, 2002, the Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA) Program sought to add a significant prevention focus to the existing Coordinated Community Response model by funding state domestic violence coalitions who would act as intermediary organizations by providing prevention-focused training and technical assistance and funding to local communities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Injury Prevention Center awarded 9 state domestic violence coalitions (SDVC), including the Ohio Domestic Violence Network, with a cooperative agreement. Five additional coalitions were awarded cooperative agreements in January, 2003. The DELTA cooperative agreement recipients are SDVC’s located in the following states: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

In April, 2003, the Ohio Domestic Violence Network published a Request for Proposals to local domestic violence agencies and non-profit organizations. Over 20 agencies responded and in August, 2003 four domestic violence agencies were infused with funding to be used strictly for primary prevention activities including coalition development, planning and implementation. Currently, the following organizations and counties were funded by ODVN to implement and evaluate intimate partner violence prevention strategies:

  • Abuse and Rape Crisis Shelter of Warren County – Violence-Free Coalition
  • Family and Child Abuse Prevention Center – Lucas County DELTA Project
  • New Directions – Knox County DELTA Project
  • ODVN-Ohio Sexual & Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Consortium

To view Ohio DELTA contact information Click Here for a document in MS Word- Click Here for a document in PDF format.

In March 2005, the Centers for Disease Control, National Injury Prevention Center announced the extension of the DELTA Program for three more years. The new funding cycle will seek to integrate prevention principles, concepts and practices into local Coordinated Community Responses (CCRs) that address intimate partner violence (IPV) such that the incidence of IPV (i.e., number of new cases) is reduced. These prevention principles, concepts and practices include the following:

  • Preventing first-time perpetration and first-time victimization;
  • Reducing vulnerability/risk-factors associated with IPV perpetration and victimization;
  • Promoting protective-factors that reduce the likelihood of IPV perpetration or victimization;
  • Evidence-based prevention program planning;
  • Use of behavior and social change theories in prevention program planning;
  • Addressing all levels of the social ecology (i.e., individual, relationship, community, and society) in prevention program planning and evaluation, and
  • Evaluating prevention programs and activities and using results to inform future prevention plans, programs, and activities.

DELTA is currently in its third, three-year funding cycle.  At the state and loacl level, DELTA is engaged in process and outcome evaluation planning as well as planning for continuous quality improvement and sustainability.