Prevention
Policy
Strategic Outcomes
Emergent Strategy
100
The number of localities that will be engaged in community level primary prevention when we succeed in achieving our strategic outcome around partnering with SDVAs to expand primary prevention.
How many is 25% of localities?
100
As a result of policy advocacy over many years, Virginia began investing in SDVA prevention through a non-reverting state Prevention Fund in 2021. The current annual appropriation of what amount funded 14 agencies in the most recent round of grants.
How much is $2.7M?
100
The Harm and Accountability Seedpacket is one of many ways we are achieving this.
What is the first strategic outcome in our plan?
100
Fibonacci patterns, those repeating patterns in nature--and the idea that the tiniest, most mundane act reflects the biggest creations we can imagine, both lead this emergent strategy.
What is "Small is good; small is all."?
200
What is the Social Ecological Model?
200
The name of a campaign designed to raise policy leader and public awareness that advocacy enhances the safety and well-being of people affected by violence. (As found in DOW + national DV Evidence Project)
What is "Advocacy Works"?
200
We are working to ensure that by 2025 at least half of Virginia SDVAs are paying this type of wage.
What is a living wage?
200
Bruce Lee said "Be like water."
Malkia Cyril said "The land speaks to me of a much longer time frame than the one my body understands."
Octavia Butler said "A victim of God may, through learning adaptation, Become a partner of God."
These quotes exemplify an emergent strategy about change.
What is "Change is constant. (Be like water.)"
300
In the world of public health, the opposite of sprinkling.
What is saturation?
300
The position the coalition took in 2023 on bills promoting "shared parenting" presumptions in child custody and separation determinations.
What is "We Oppose"?
300
In which upcoming year have we set a goal to establish a Fellowship Program to amplify BIPOC leadership in the movement to end SDV in Virginia?
When is 2025?
300
adrienne maree brown posits in this emergent strategy that transformation doesn't happen in a linear way and then they go on to suggest that in a non-linear process, EVERYTHING is part of learning. Therefore, we might consider spending less time on picking apart our imperfections and more time articulating and crystalizing the lessons we are learning.
What is "Never a failure; always a lesson."?
400
An important component of primary prevention that helps us to know if our strategies are working and which may include quantitative adn qualitative data.
What is empowerment evaluation?
400
The year the coalition took a position opposing the use of the death penalty for any crime, including crimes of sexual and domestic violence, because it perpetuates the use of violence to control individuals or groups of individuals and creates a society that tolerates violence and abuse.
When was 1998?
400
There are two areas of work where we aspire to develop intersectional partnerships and positions in order to link racial justice and economic justice with violence prevention. Name one of them.
What is addressing health care disparities?
OR
What is promoting access to safe and affordable housing?
400
Describing this strategy, brown encourages us to "Relinquish Frankenstein." What they mean is that we should stop trying to make and fix others and instead, be curious about what they have made of themselves. This is one key to healthy, authentic relationships.
What is "Move at the speed of trust. Focus on critical connections more than critical mass."?
500
A public health approach that tackles health differences that are avoidable, unnecessary, and unjust, and works to improve everyone's health.
What is health equity?
500
The percentage of mass shootings, according to the FBI, committed by people who also have a history of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking.
How many is 54%
500
Maternal mortality rates for Black women in Virginia are nearly three times the rates for white women, which the Kaiser health report describes as being rooted in racism and discrimination. One of our strategic outcomes was developed to expand our reproductive justice work to address this unique form of reproductive violence.
What is the final outcome of the plan, to build non-traditional partnerships to expand, improve and raise awareness of options for reproductive care in communities of African descent?
500
This emergent strategy is a central reason that so many who are committed to transformative justice look to science fiction. "The future is not an escapist place to occupy...the more we take in in our hands and imagine it as a place of justice and pleasure, the more the future knows we want it, and that we aren't letting go."
What is "What you pay attention to grows."?