Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances: Achieving Health Equity through Addressing Disparities

The cooperative agreements with the SDVCs are established for the purposes of establishing, operating, and maintaining local community projects to prevent family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence, including violence committed by and against youth, using a Coordinated Community Response (CCR) model and through prevention and education programs.

Donor Name: Centers for Disease Control – NCIPC

State: All States

County: All Counties

Territory: American Samoa, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 10/15/2022

Size of the Grant: $500,000

Grant Duration: 12 months

Details:

The purpose of DELTA AHEAD is to decrease risk factors and increase protective factors for Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and addressing Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). State Domestic Violence Coalitions (SDVCs) are required to address SDoH at the community and societal-levels of the Social Ecological Model (SEM) using evidence-informed strategies and adaptations to those strategies (including adaptations for prevention during a pandemic). SDVCs will 1) implement IPV primary prevention strategies to promote health equity at the state and community-levels, 2) partner with rural communities and/or indigenous communities, and 3) develop or enhance a State Action Plan (SAP) and a Community Action Plan (CAP) that demonstrates how each Program and Policy Effort (PPE) work comprehensively to address SDoH.

Two categories of recipients will be funded for five years:

Category A: SDVCs who demonstrated previous experience and capacity to implement and evaluate PPEs to prevent IPV;
Category B: SDVCs will work on building capacity to implement and evaluate PPEs. Category A recipients will enhance their State Leadership Team (SLT) and SAP to implement one policy effort at the state level and fund one or two partners to develop a CAP to implement and evaluate PPEs at the community-level. Category B recipients will build partnerships at the state level and will then implement one policy effort at the state level and fund and work with one partner to develop a CAP.

Outcomes

Category A Outcomes:
- Short-term
  - Increased networking, collaboration, and support among partners
  - Increased access to and use of data to assess the SDoH that impact the scope and consequences of IPV and other forms of violence
  - Increased national-level networking, collaboration, and learning among partners
  - Increased knowledge of IPV primary prevention approaches among SDVC staff and state- and local partners
  - Increased implementation of evidence-based PPEs
  - Improved state and local level understanding of risk and protective factors impacting IPV and other forms of violence
  - Increased evaluation of PPEs at state- and local levels
  - Increased use of evaluation methods to guide IPV prevention efforts Intermediate
  - Increased IPV prevention efforts among local, state, and national partners
  - Increased capacity of SDVCs and local partners to implement and evaluate primary prevention of IPV
  - Increased # of people, organizations, communities, and other settings exposed to evidence-informed approaches to violence prevention
  - Increase in policies that promote health equity through the improvement social and economic determinants of health
  - Increase protective factors for IPV and other forms of violence.
  - Decrease risk factors for IPV and other forms of violence.
  - Increased access to and application of state- and community-level evaluation data
  - Increased data monitoring related to IPV primary prevention strategies that promote racial and health equity at the local and state levels
Category B Outcomes:
- Short-term
  - Increased networking, collaboration, and support among partners
  - Increased access to data related to the SDoH that impact IPV and other forms of violence, and the available resources to address them
  - Increased capacity to implement IPV primary prevention within funded states Intermediate
  - Increased implementation and evaluation of community and societal level IPV prevention efforts
  - Increased use of IPV primary prevention approaches
  - Increased efforts to address the SDoH that impact IPV
  - Increased data monitoring related to IPV primary prevention strategies.

Funding Information

Award Ceiling: $500,000
- Category A. $500,000
- Category B. $310,000
Award Floor: $250,000
- Category A: $350,000
- Category B: $250,000
Period of Performance Length: 12 months

Eligibility Criteria

As provided for in 42 USC § 10414, to be eligible for funding, an organization must:
be a State Domestic Violence Coalition; and
include representatives of pertinent sectors of the local community, which may include:
- health care providers and State or local health departments;
- the education community;
- the faith-based community;
- the criminal justice system;
- family violence, domestic violence, and dating violence service program advocates;
- human service entities such as State child services divisions;
- business and civic leaders;
- other pertinent sectors.
The term ‘State’ means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and, except as otherwise provided, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.