DELTA AHEAD Project Abstract Summary:
The North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCCADV) is proposing to implement and evaluate community and society-level primary prevention strategies that move the state and communities served towards decreasing risk factors and increasing protective factors for Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) as well as towards more equitable health outcomes. The selected prevention strategies will support state-level short-term and intermediate outcomes listed in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) by implementing evidence based programs or policy efforts (PPEs) at the state and local levels that align with the NOFO focus areas and specifically target populations experiencing racial and/or health inequities. The proposal will also help develop an evidence base for community-and societal-level IPV prevention PPEs through increased use of evaluation
and data to assess the social determinants of health (SDoH) that impact the scope and consequences of IPV and other forms of violence at the local, state, and national levels.
NCCADV will implement one PPE at the state-level called Economic Stability through Supportive Agency Policies and Practices (ESSAPP) that is focused on organizational policies that strengthen work-family supports. To reach the goals of this PPE, NCCADV will develop, implement, and evaluate a state-wide training and coaching program the provides participants with information and tools related to policies that strengthen work-family supports. The policies in the curriculum will include paid parental leave policies and benefits, paid safe(ty) leave policies, paid sick leave and vacation leave policies and benefits, flexible and consistent work schedules, and pregnant worker and lactation accommodations. This PPE will also be implemented at the local level by the Coordinated Community Response team (CCR) in New Hanover County, NC. First, NCCADV will train members of the CCR on the topics above and then the CCR will provide training and technical assistance
to major employers in their community. This PPE will strengthen economic supports for families.
NCCADV will also partner with the CCR in New Hanover County to implement two additional PPEs at the local level. The first PPE is called Trauma Informed Organizational Policies and Practices (TIOPP) which will involve creating training and technical assistance tools to support community-serving agencies in New Hanover County adopt more trauma-informed policies and practices. TIOPP will create protective working environments in participating organizations. The second PPE is Promoting Positive Community Norms with Teens (PPCNT). In this PPE, the CCR will recruit and engage with a Teen Advisory Council to understand existing social norms in the community and to develop and implement a portfolio of strategies to address and improve social norms that address risk and protective factors for IPV. PPCNT will increase engagement with influential peers and adults in New Hanover County.