About Prevention

Domestic Violence Prevention

The Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic & Sexual Violence (TCEDSV) is committed to ending domestic violence. We receive funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through the Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership through Alliances (DELTA) and Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) grants. These grants allow us to create, implement, and evaluate prevention strategies across the state.
Our prevention initiatives focus on engaging men as mentors and leaders in violence prevention, promoting violence-free workplaces, and educating and empowering youth to build healthy relationships. Additionally, we receive funding to support children who have been impacted by violence. This work focuses on preventing further cycles of violence by promoting healing and encouraging safe, healthy parent-child relationships.

Domestic Violence Prevention Projects:

Engaging Men as Leaders – MenPACT in Chattanooga is a powerful initiative dedicated to creating a space where men can come together to address violence and work toward building safer, healthier communities. Actively involving men in conversations about violence and its root causes is crucial, as they can offer unique perspectives and serve as partners in creating change. Through this initiative, men will have the opportunity to develop the skills needed to mentor boys and foster empowered youth and communities.

Safer Workplaces –This initiative targets organizational leadership by providing training and raising awareness of intimate partner violence occurring in the workplace. The training emphasizes recognizing warning signs that an employee may be experiencing domestic violence, implementing safety protocols, offering appropriate accommodations for victims, addressing consequences for abusers, and providing guidance on enforcing violence-free workplace policies.

Statewide Coordination Efforts – Primary prevention strategies are essential in all communities, and the Coalition aims to expand the reach of prevention efforts across the state. A State Leadership Team evaluates statewide needs and collaborates to identify key areas for future growth in prevention work. These needs include youth empowerment and intervention, developing infrastructure to support expanding prevention efforts, and advancing policy initiatives.

Sexual Assault Prevention

The Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic & Sexual Violence (TCEDSV) in collaboration with the Tennessee Department of Health (DOH) acknowledges that sexual violence (SV) perpetration and victimization is a significant public health problem that requires a public health approach to decrease risk factors and increase protective factors related to SV. This includes a range of activities to address the way individual, relationship, community, and societal factors impact SV. This approach is more likely to prevent SV across a lifetime than any single intervention and is also more likely to benefit the largest number of people and reduce SV.

Sexual Assault Prevention Projects:

Empowerment and Intervention with Youth –Interrupting cycles of violence by engaging with youth is one of the most effective ways to end domestic and sexual violence. We work to empower young people to recognize the warning signs of abuse and develop healthy relationships.