Transcript Primary Prevention: Working Together for a Violence

Primary Prevention:
Working Together for a
Violence-free Future!
A large portion of the following
presentation was created by the DELTA
Training Subcommittee. Their
commitment to creating an informative
and accessible primary prevention
presentation that was made available
for DELTA collaborative states is
appreciated greatly by FCADV staff.
Thank you to the
DELTA Training Subcommittee!
What will it take in communities
across the country to create
the social change necessary to
end domestic violence?
We cannot stop the overall flow of
violence in women’s and girl’s lives by
running shelters or men’s programs
for batterers alone. We must address
the root causes of domestic violence
directly. With such a monumental
task at hand, the full participation of
our communities is required.
Donna Garske
Founder, Transforming Communities
The Current Reality:
Assessing The Social Fabric
The Scope of the Abuse
Around the world, at least
1 in 3 women has been
beaten, coerced into sex or
otherwise abused during her
lifetime.
Intimate partners commit 4070 percent of homicides of
women worldwide.
Worldwide
Previous & Current
Approaches to Ending DV
• 1970s Women start speaking out against
rape and battering
• Mid to late 1970s Needs for individual
safety recognized
– Shift from private safe houses to shelters
• Mid to late 1980s and forward- demand for
accountability in the system
– Interaction with other systems leads to demand
for more coordinated community responses
What we learned from the
Battered Women’s Movement
• The needs of the women and girls facing
violence are diverse and complex
• Violence is a learned behavior
– Batterer behavior changes when they decide to
change and when appropriate societal/community
mechanisms are in place that hold them
accountable for the violence they perpetrate
• Working with men and boys is essential to
ending men’s violence against women.
Building the Loom:
Definitions & Frameworks
What Is Prevention?
• In public health, prevention is activities
which reduce the burden of mortality or
burden from disease or health
• Prevention/social change is a long-term
process that requires change at various
levels of the community to prevent intimate
partner domestic violence before it occurs
Prevention is Not
• A one-time program or event
• One skill-building session
• One protocol
Prevention IS
• An on-going process, requiring
leadership and commitment
• Integrated into community infrastructure
Prevention & Intervention:
Both Essential
Prevention & Intervention: Both Essential
Preventing a re-occurrence of domestic violence
(intervention)
+Prevention
Preventing domestic violence before it occurs
(primary prevention)
Prevention continuum within each community
Intervention and primary prevention should
complement, not compete with, each other.
KABBs
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Knowledge
Attitudes
Beliefs
Behaviors
Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors
that come from institutional and day-to-day
norms.
Prevention of Domestic Violence
as a
Public Health Issue
•
WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY, Geneva, 1996
Resolution WHA 49.25:
DECLARED violence a leading worldwide public health
problem
– REQUESTED Member States to:
• Initiate public health activities that use a genderanalysis perspective, measure program
effectiveness, and pay particular attention to
community-based initiatives
• Present a plan of action for progress towards a
science-based public health approach to violence
prevention
The Public Health Approach to
Prevention of Domestic Violence
Disseminate
Effective
Strategies
Develop
and Test
Prevention
Strategies
Identify Risk
and Protective
Factors
Define the
Problem
The Social Ecological Model
Individual
Relationship
Community
Society
Factors at each level of the social ecology
contribute to the perpetration of domestic
violence in our society.
Why Prevention?
• Adolescents are influenced by many
factors that support or condone domestic
violence. Each of these factors need to
be addressed in a consistent,
systematic, and systemic manner.
• This recognizes that changes in the
environment and long-term programs are
needed.
An Example:
A Comprehensive Approach
• Examples of this approach include:
– Individual level
• Curriculums, counseling, mentoring
– Relationship
• Support programs, mentoring, parent training
– Community
• Social norms, community education, policy changes
– Societal
• Media campaigns, policy changes
What Will It Take?
• Social Change
• Collaboration
• Community mobilization
• Leadership development
• Capacity building
• Domestic
violence
prevention
DELTA
• Enhancement
and
• Leadership
• Through
• Alliances
DELTA  means change
Who is DELTA?
Why is this important for prevention
programming?
• Community readiness – motivation and
willingness
• Community capacity – ability to identify,
address, and mobilize to prevent IPV/SV
• Community context –
institutional/organizational culture;
location; ethnic/racial identity; politics;
religious identity; social context
The Men's Focus Group is talking with the
younger kids about stereotypes.
The older group and the Men's Focus Group
played a co-ed basketball game.
The Boys & Girls Club youth with the Men's Focus
Group after the basketball game.
Miguel Ibarra and Zlinic Henry