Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence DELTA AHEAD - The Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence (TN Coalition) will build upon its existing efforts to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors against IPV by increasing equitable access to the Social Determinants of Health both statewide and at the local level in Hamilton County. TN Coalition will partner with the Chattanooga Hamilton County Family Justice Center to implement PPEs at the local level and with the Center for Policy Research to evaluate the impact of PPEs at the state and local levels. The TN Coalition expects to achieve the following outcomes by the end of the project: Short-term Outcomes • Increased networking, collaboration, and support among partners at the state and local level in Tennessee • Increased access to and use of data related to IPV and other forms of violence at the state and local level in Tennessee • Increased national-level networking, collaboration and learning among partners • Increased knowledge of IPV primary prevention approaches among TN Coalition staff and state and local partners • Increased implementation of evidence-based PPE’s, to include IPV and the Workplace Training, A Call to Men, and policy efforts to strengthen work-family supports such as paid parental leave and benefits • Improved state and local level understanding of the following risk factors that impact IPV and other forms of violence: weak sanctions against IPV in the workplace, weak policies against IPV in the workplace, community disinvestment, community norms supportive of aggression, harmful gender norms and beliefs, low collective efficacy, weak social policies, lack of quality employment opportunities, financial stress, poverty and financial dependency. • Improved state and local understanding of the following protective factors that impact IPV and other forms of violence: improvement of workplace climate, increased development of policies supportive of IPV survivors, high collective efficacy, stabilizing finances, improving financial security/self-sufficiency, and increasing empowerment • Increased use of evaluation methods to guide IPV prevention efforts Intermediate Outcomes • Increased IPV Prevention efforts among local, state, and national partners • Increased capacity of TN Coalition and local partners to implement and evaluate primary prevention IPV • Increased number of people, organizations, communities, and other settings throughout Tennessee exposed to evidence-informed approaches to violence prevention such as IPV and the Workplace, A Call to Men, and policy efforts to strengthen work-family supports such as paid parental leave and benefits • Increase in policies that promote health equity through the improvement of the following social and economic determinants of health: workplace climate and safety, community interactions, income equity, gender equity, and poverty. • Increase in the following protective factors against IPV and other forms of violence: improvement of workplace climate, increased development of policies supportive of IPV survivors, high collective efficacy, stabilizing finances, improving financial security/self-sufficiency, and increasing empowerment • Decrease in the following risk factors for IPV and other forms of violence: harmful gender norms and beliefs, low collective efficacy, acceptance of aggression, financial stress, poverty and financial dependency. • 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 state and local levels.
