Effective Prevention

Recently the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance completed a very comprehensive document on effective prevention work. (click here for document)  ICADV is currently assessing what is appropriate for our state and how the definitions they set forward are applicable. Here are some of the guidelines they have identified:

1) Develop prevention strategies that promote protective factors

 

2) Develop prevention strategies that strive to be comprehensive

 

3) Develop prevention strategies that are concentrated, and can be sustained and expanded over time

 

4) Develop prevention strategies that use varied teaching methods to address multiple learning processes

 

5) Develop prevention programs based on purposeful, logical rationale

 

6) Develop prevention strategies that are developmentally appropriate

 

7) Develop prevention strategies in collaboration with a representative cross-section of community members to incorporate diverse cultural beliefs, practices, and community norms

 

8) Develop prevention strategies that include a systematic method to determine program effectiveness and promote continuous quality improvement

 

9) Develop prevention strategies as an integral part of the agency mission to end sexual violence/intimate partner violence