Prevention Focus
Up to now, most of the focus of CCRs has been on intervention activities that try to provide for victim safety and batterer accountability. Much effort has been invested in coordinating the services and responses to incidents and the aftermath of domestic violence. This has naturally included the judicial system, law enforcement, and shelter services.DELTA, instead, seeks to add a prevention focus to the existing CCR activities. Preventing violence requires changing attitudes and beliefs about what it means to be male or female in our society. Boys and girls learn how to interact with each other, respect differences and solve conflicts in the context of their communities and society as a whole. They pay attention to how adults behave toward one another and to the messages they see in movies, TV, magazines, and video games. It's not enough to tell children to behave one way and then - in our homes, schools, city halls, and stores - treat one another in a coercive, violent, or disrespectful manner. Violence prevention is the responsibility of the entire community, not just the responsibility of an individual or family.