Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence
State Coordinator
Noël Duckworth
Toni Durbano
100 West 10th Street, Suite 703
Wilmington, DE 19801
Phone: (302) 658-2958
Fax: (302) 658-5049
Web: www.dcadv.org
E-mail: nduckworth@dcadv.org or
tdurbano@dcadv.org
Overview of State Program
The Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence (DCADV) is a statewide, non-profit organization founded in 1994. The Coalition seeks to eliminate the institutional and personal abuse of victims. DCADV also strives to change the conditions under which domestic violence is allowed to occur.
DCADV's prevention efforts through the Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA) program include building prevention capacity throughout the state. Locally, DCADV has implemented DELTA Program objectives by providing training, technical assistance, and funding opportunities to local communities.
DCADV funds two Coordinated Community Responses (CCRs), the Domestic Violence Task Force and the Victims' Rights Task Force. These CCRs are working together and have formed a Prevention Subcommittee with a vision of "Safe and Respectful Relationships for All." The Subcommittee has created the Developing Healthy Relationships curriculum, which brings intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention to middle and high schools in Delaware. Members of the Prevention Subcommittee are currently working with schools to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum. In addition, subcommittee members are working with state-level administrators to improve data collection to permit a better understanding of IPV in Delaware, especially among youth. The Prevention Subcommittee has also launched www.safeandrespectful.org, a website with pages for teens, parents, and teachers to promote safe and respectful relationships.
State Future Directions
CCRs will continue to support IPV prevention activities in schools. The funded communities will also work with adjudicated youth to develop public service announcements on IPV prevention. In an effort to build national capacity, DELTA Coordinators from both DCADV and the CCRs
presented on the DELTA Program at the 2007 Visions in Feminism Conference in Washington, D.C.
DCADV will continue to provide prevention-focused training and technical assistance to a variety of partners. The Coalition continues to contract with a local evaluator, who operates from an empowerment evaluation framework and is working with CCRs, local fiscal agents, and the IPV Prevention Consortium to develop local- and state-level Intimate Partner Violence Progress Reports and Prevention Plans. Performance measures of effectiveness include improving the prevention knowledge of participants at non-DELTA funded state and national conferences, and increasing the prevention capacities of DELTA-funded CCRs, organizational members, and the Prevention Consortium. These measures, along with the development of an infrastructure of training materials, databases, report templates, and prevention protocols, will help DCADV sustain DELTA efforts and reduce the incidence of IPV.
Local Projects
| 1. | CCR: | Victim's Rights Task Force |
| Fiscal Agent: | Delaware Center for Justice | |
| Priority Population: | Youth in the juvenile justice system | |
| 2. | CCR: | The Domestic Violence Task Force |
| Fiscal Agent: | Child, Inc. | |
| Priority Population: | Youth |
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