Collaborative Process
DELTA has been a collaborative process from the start with 14 state domestic violence and sexual violence coalitions working with the CDC to define DELTA's parameters and focus.In some ways, Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) prevention work is new territory and so, this collaboration is both exciting and daunting and requires creativity, research, and careful assessments. Much more is known about the occurrence of IPV, but how to stop it is more of a mystery. What is clear, however, is that violence is learned and that it can either be unlearned or not taught in the first place. The messages needed to engage in IPV prevention will vary from community to community.
This is not your typical government program; the work and its direction is really being done more at the local level with support from the state and national levels in the form of resources and technical assistance.