Friday, April 18, 2025
4/18/2025
Rhode Island DELTA AHEAD - The purpose of this grant is to increase strategic collaboration and sustainability for IPV primary prevention and increase community-level planning, implementation, and evaluation. As a result of the activities the RICADV will employ towards this purpose, including the implementation and evaluation of three community and societal level Program and Policy Efforts (PPEs) in partnership with our Coordinated Community Response (CCR) team and the enhancement of the State Action Plan (SAP) and Community Action Plan (CAP), we expect to see the following short-term outcomes within two years of funding: • Increased networking, collaboration, and support among partners • Increased access to and use of data related to IPV and other forms of violence • Increased national-level networking, collaboration, and learning among partners • Increased knowledge of IPV primary prevention approaches among RICADV staff, other state domestic violence coalition (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 We also expect our activities to enhance the SAP and CAP, increase the use of evaluation and data-driven planning, and communicate about our strategies and findings, will lead to the following intermediate outcomes within three to five years of funding: • Increased IPV prevention efforts among local, state, and national partners • Increased capacity of the RICADV, other SDVCs, and local partners to implement and evaluate primary prevention of IPV • Increased number 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
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