Piloted a model to prevent domestic violence and promote safe relationships

In partnership with four local collaboratives, we completed piloting a model of building the capacity of culturally-rooted, community-driven, multisector collaboratives to implement strategies that promote health equity, racial justice, and safe relationships, and prevent domestic violence (DV). This model, Safety Through Connection, will evolve in 2022 to sustain and accelerate this work in five communities that face systemic racial, gender, and economic inequities, and that have a concentration of risk factors for DV. We will support a community of practice that will engage in state-level partnership and advocacy to increase the responsiveness of state systems to community priorities for safe relationships, DV prevention, and health equity. This work is supported by the Blue Shield of California Foundation. Photo by CBDIO Fresno.