Wednesday, March 19, 2025
3/19/2025
The California Partnership to End Domestic Violence (the Partnership) is applying as a Category A applicant for the Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA): Achieving Health Equity through Addressing Disparities (AHEAD) grant opportunity as the California State Domestic Violence Coalition, along with one coordinated community response (CCR), Lumina Alliance. Our work will address the three specific focus areas of DELTA AHEAD and increase coordination of activities statewide and increase the use of evaluation and surveillance data to influence our work. Our proposal encompasses our plan to enhance our current State Action Plan (SAP) and develop and enhance a Community Action Plan (CAP) that demonstrates how each Program and Policy Effort (PPE) will work comprehensively to address Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). The Partnership is a formerly funded state coalition with the capacity to implement and evaluate PPEs to prevent IPV and address risk factors and enhance protective factors. Each PPE in this proposal is designed to address the SDoH. Focus Area #1: Create Protective Environments, which will be addressed by Lumina Alliance, a CCR located in San Luis Obispo County, California. They will be implementing PPE 1, The ReDefine Parenting program, by using the approach of modifying physical and social environments of neighborhoods. The ReDefine Parenting program will build upon previous efforts to engage influential parents within school communities. The program will reach parents in the community by empowering them to implement peer-to-peer workshops that utilize content from the ReDefineSLO website, which addresses topics such as consent, bodily autonomy, and healthy masculinity. This PPE addresses social determinants of health by being aligned with the goal of increasing social and community support with the objectives of; increasing the proportion of adolescents who have an adult they can talk to a bout serious problems, increasing the proportion of children who communicate positively with their parents, increasing the proportion of children and adolescents who show resilience to challenges and stress, and increasing the proportion of adults who talk to friends and family about their health. Focus Area #2: Engage Influential Adults and Peers, which will be addressed by Lumina Alliance’s implementation of PPE 2, which is their Fourth R and Comprehensive Sexual Education curriculum. This will meet the objective of engaging influential adults and peers through the approach of bystander empowerment and education. This is aligned with the goal of preventing violence and related injuries and deaths, to meet the objective of reducing sexual and physical adolescent dating violence. The social determinants of health that will be addressed include education, specifically around building healthy relationships, encouraging bystander empowerment, and promoting sexual health; developing social trust; impacting personal health practices and coping skills; and promoting social support networks. Focus Area #3: Strengthen Economic Supports for Families, which will be addressed at the state and community level by the Partnership, Work and Family Coalition, and Lumina Alliance through the approach of strengthening work-family support and the policy effort of implementing paid leave policies and benefits. We will increase utilization of paid leave policies through a targeted effort to increase DV organizations’ understanding of how paid leave policies and benefits can be increasingly applied to IPV prevention. These policies can also assist in expanding the DV movement’s engagement with state-level and community-level efforts to build awareness and the utilization of these benefits and policies among California’s general population. We will work to increase the number of individuals reached by DV organizations who take paid leave authorized by state law, thus reducing economic stress.
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