Preventing Intimate Partner Violence Across the Lifespan: A Technical Package of Programs, Policies and Practices

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This publication represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) and its consequences across the lifespan. These strategies include teaching safe and healthy relationship skills; engaging influential adults and peers; disrupting the developmental pathways toward IPV; creating protective environments; strengthening economic supports for families; and supporting survivors to increase safety and lessen harms. The strategies represented in this publication include those with a focus on preventing IPV, including teen dating violence (TDV), from happening in the first place or to prevent it from continuing, as well as approaches to lessen the immediate and long-term harms of partner violence.

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Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements 5

External Reviewers 5

Overview 7

Teach Safe and Healthy Relationship Skills 15

Engage Influential Adults and Peers 19

Disrupt the Developmental Pathways Toward Partner Violence 23

Create Protective Environments 29

Strengthen Economic Supports for Families 33

Support Survivors to Increase Safety and Lessen Harms 37

Sector Involvement 43

Monitoring and Evaluation 45

Conclusion 46

References 47

Appendix: Summary of Strategies 58

Anyone in an intimate relationship who fears, or is experiencing and/or engaging in, intimate partner violence (IPV--also known as "domestic violence") will find this an invaluable resource.  People who have loved ones experiencing intimate partner violence may also be interested in this publication.  This package is intended as a resource to guide and inform prevention decision-making in communities and states to include numerous sectors, such as public health, education, justice, health care, social services, faith-based organizations, business and labor, and government.