Everyone deserves health and safety, yet many communities are faced with barriers that limit access to important resources that allow for optimum levels of health and safety such as housing, jobs with living wages, fresh food, and accessible transportation. These barriers didn’t just appear, but rather they are the outcome of generations of laws, policies, practices, and social norms that have created conditions where sexual and intimate partner violence are more likely. By addressing the reasons that communities have more or less resources and being intentional in the way we select and implement prevention strategies, prevention practitioners can advance health equity and prevent violence.

Session One: Join PreventConnect and guests from the Kansas RPE program for a conversation exploring health equity in sexual and intimate partner violence prevention practice. We’ll explore how the core components of a prevention strategy, including how the strategy is designed and the key messages of the strategy, can be a starting point for integrating health equity into violence prevention work.

Session Two: We’ll continue to examine health equity by exploring how to ensure that the prevention strategies we choose are aligned with Health Equity and impactful to our communities through applicable, real-world examples of a framework designed by the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence called E4. 

Session Three: We will continue to examine principles and processes of implementing violence prevention strategies by learning from DELTA AHEAD recipients, the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Session Four: We’ll turn our focus to the partnerships pivotal to health equity and effective violence prevention strategies and approaches. Rhode Island’s RPE program, subrecipients, and partners will share about developing trust and relationships with the community to prioritize needs, participate in policy change, and create safer environments for those most burdened by violence