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Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership Through Alliances
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What Business and Civic Leaders Can Do to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence
- Promote and participate in community efforts to prevent relationship violence.
- Assign responsibility for prevention education, screening, and early intervention to an existing agency or coalition. (Locally, the DELTA Project exists for these purposes.)
- Adopt a school and become involved in its programs and activities. Promote educational opportunities that teach healthy relationship skills to youth.
- Develop creative arts and media competitions with an anti-violence theme.
- Help students access job skill development, part-time employment, and internships.
- Advocate for violence prevention and intervention program funding.
- Promote firearm safety to prevent firearm-related injuries to young people. This includes safe storage and handling as well as the removal of firearms from homes of children with mental health problems or a history of violent behavior.
- Develop scholarship programs to promote and reward academic success.
- Encourage employees to become involved in community collaborative solutions to relationship violence and with school activities. Provide the flexibility for them to do so.
- Serve as mentors for youth within the community.
- Provide services, facilities, and equipment to enhance violence prevention and youth development programs in schools.
- Support Head Start programs for all children. Encourage the use of “Second Step” curriculum, which teaches parents about healthy relationships.
- Support proper training and technical assistance for agencies serving children and families. Assist with public awareness campaign development and implementation.
- Develop comprehensive company policies addressing the prevention of work-place violence, including coordinated responses to relationship violence.
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