Prevention Blog Posts

Just in time for the new movie, the Center for Healthy Teen Relationships, an initiative of the Idaho CoalitionAgainst Sexual & Domestic Violence, released The Hunger Games: Catching Fire forSocial Justice lesson plan for high school students. The lesson plan was designed as a jumping-off place to engage young people in critical conversations and reflections about: 

A new report analyzes the first ever intimate partner violence and sexual violence statewide prevention plans of two CDC programs:

• Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA) program. 
• Enhancing and Making Programs and Outcomes Work to End Rape (EMPOWER) program.

Across the DELTA and EMPOWER state plans, a number of promising findings emerged for the primary prevention of intimate partner violence and sexual violence.

The DELTA FOCUS Project develops and disseminates frames, messages and stories about dating abuse (the problem) and dating abuse prevention policies protocols and procedures (the solutions) that resonate with decision-makers, opinion-leaders, and partners within the education system.

New Narratives, Frames and Messages 

A new study on teen dating violence has found that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teenagers are at much greater risk of dating abuse than their heterosexual counterparts. Transgender teens are especially vulnerable. 

Despite research showing that 1 in 4 US teens have experienced some form of abuse in a dating relationship, according to a new study, the majority of high schools don’t have procedures or trained staff to deal with the issue. In order to assess if high schools are prepared to address incidents of dating violence, researchers surveyed members of the American School Counselor Association, in the first national assessment of school counselors’ practices and perceptions of adolescent dating violence prevention. 

Youth and adult leaders implementing Teen Dating Violence Prevention Demonstration Projects funded by the California Department of Public Health Violence Prevention Unit (CDPH/VPU) gathered in Sacramento to share progress and lessons in implementing innovative dating abuse prevention strategies.

Resources to Support DELTA FOCUS California Project Planning 

Informing Policies, Procedures and Protocol:

Aspen Institute Advocacy Progress Planner 

Aspen Institute Advocacy Progress Planner definitions

On September 30, 2011, Lisa Fujie Parks, the Partnership’s Prevention Program Manager, had the opportunity to speak at the Kaiser Permanente’s Family Violence Prevention Program’s 10th anniversary Family Violence Prevention Conference on a panel on community advocacy response to domestic violence.

Below is the Executive Summary included in the proceedings.

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