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Alternative Title:
Health Educ Behav
Personal Author:
Zakocs, Ronda ; Freire, Kimberley E.
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Description:
Background

The DELTA PREP Project aimed to build the prevention capacity of 19 state domestic violence coalitions by offering eight supports designed to promote prevention integration over a 3-year period: modest grant awards, training events, technical assistance, action planning, coaching hubs, the Coalition Prevention Capacity Assessment, an online workstation, and the online documentation support system.

Objectives

Using quantitative and qualitative data, we sought to explain how coalitions integrated prevention within their structures and functions and document how DELTA PREP supports contributed to coalitions’ integration process.

Results

We found that coalitions followed a common pathway to integrate prevention. First, coalitions exhibited precursors of organizational readiness, especially having prevention champions. Second, coalitions engaged in five critical actions: engaging in dialogue, learning about prevention, forming teams, soliciting input from the coalition, and action planning. Last, by engaging in these critical actions, coalitions enhanced two key organizational readiness factors—developing a common understanding of prevention and an organizational commitment to prevention. We also found that DELTA PREP supports contributed to coalitions’ abilities to integrate prevention by supporting learning about prevention, fostering a prevention team, and engaging in action planning by leveraging existing opportunities. Two DELTA PREP supports—coaching hubs and the workstation—did not work as initially intended. From the DELTA PREP experience, we offer several lessons to consider when designing future prevention capacity-building initiatives.


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Capacity Building
Coalitions
Diffusion Of Innovations
Evaluation
Humans
Injury Prevention/safety
Interinstitutional Relations
Intimate Partner Violence
Process Evaluation
Program Development
Public Health Administration
Qualitative Methods
Violent Behavior And Prevention
Women’s Health

Source:
Health Educ Behav. 42(4):458-470.
Pubmed ID:
26245934
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC5990002
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
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