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Preventing Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Lessons from Tennessee
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA) program funds intimate partner violence (IPV) primary prevention initiatives led by state domestic violence coalitions. From March 2018 to February 2023, the program funded projects as a part of DELTA impact. To be supported by DELTA impact, state coalitions had to Read More
Focus Area(s): Domestic Violence Program Innovations, Intimate Partner Violence
Child Support Policies and Domestic Violence: A Preliminary Look at Client Experiences with Good Cause Exemptions to Child Support Cooperation Requirements
Background: This 1997 report gathers preliminary data for the Colorado Model Office Project (Grant No. 90-FF-0027, funded by the Office of Child Support Enforcement) about client experiences with good cause via interviews and a review of applications. The goal of the Model Office Project was to demonstrate the effectiveness of various innovations in child support case Read More
Preventing Relationship Violence Through Community Change: Results from a Baseline Survey on Coloradans’ Readiness to Address Relationship Violence as a Community
This report is part of an ongoing evaluation of the Stand Up Colorado social change initiative. Stand Up Colorado is a campaign aimed at preventing relationship violence (RV). The overall evaluation of the campaign will include both process and outcome components. This report focuses on the baseline survey that was conducted as part of the Read More
Issue(s): Gender-Based Violence
Focus Area(s): Domestic Violence Program Innovations, Intimate Partner Violence
Keyword(s): attitudes, baseline survey, color blind, domestic violence, Intimate Partner Violence, racism, sexism, social change, stand up colorado
Documenting Domestic Violence Services, Client Needs, and Client Outcomes The Final Report of the Colorado Tool Development Project
The study described in this report is Phase II of an ongoing effort to document community based domestic violence (DV) advocacy services and measure outcomes. In October 2016, the Domestic Violence Program (DVP) convened a group of stakeholders to create and/or identify (1) an assessment tool to help DV advocates identify clients’ needs at intake and (2) a client Read More
Issue(s): Gender-Based Violence
Focus Area(s): Domestic Violence Program Innovations, Intimate Partner Violence
Keyword(s): domestic violence, Intimate Partner Violence
Building Evidence for Domestic Violence Services and Interventions: Challenges, Areas of Opportunity, and Research Priorities
Authors & Acknowledgement Statement This report was prepared by National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (Anne Menard and Cris Sullivan, Ph.D., Michigan State University), and Center for Policy Research (Jessica Pearson, Ph.D. and Echo Rivera, Ph.D.). The core project team also included Madeline Solan, MMP, and Stephanie Acker Housman, MPA, ASPE and Marylouise Kelley, Ph.D. Read More
Building the Evidence for Domestic Violence Services & Interventions: A Framing Paper
Authors & Acknowledgement Statement This report was prepared by National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (Anne Menard and Cris Sullivan, Ph.D., Michigan State University), and Center for Policy Research (Jessica Pearson, Ph.D. and Echo Rivera, Ph.D.). The core project team also included Madeline Solan, MMP, and Stephanie Acker Housman, MPA, ASPE and Marylouise Kelley, Ph.D. Read More
Assessing needs and measuring outcomes for survivors of domestic violence: Final report of the Colorado self-sufficiency matrix evaluation
Background The Colorado Domestic Violence Program (DVP) contracted with the Center for Policy Research (CPR) to evaluate the self-sufficiency matrix (SSM) in Colorado’s DVP programs. Specifically, CPR sought to determine whether the SSM showed promise as a tool used for case management and for evaluating domestic violence (DV) services. Method This report details Phase I Read More
Child Support Program and Parenting Time Orders: Research, Practice, and Partnership Project – Roundtable on Domestic Violence
OCSE has funded some demonstration and evaluation projects and grants in the area of parenting, and some states use funding available through the State Access and Visitation (AV) Program to support parenting time services for unmarried parents in the child support program. However, only a handful of jurisdictions have mechanisms to incorporate parenting time agreements into initial child Read More
Issue(s): Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships, Gender-Based Violence
Focus Area(s): Domestic Violence Program Innovations, Intimate Partner Violence, Parenting Time & Co-Parenting