Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence
Programs
Description
The Coalition's DELTA Impact program, funded by the Center for Disease Control, works to decrease risk factors that lead to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) while increasing the protective factors that prevent violence from occurring in the first place. The program's coordinated community response teams works to prevent IPV by facilitating the access and development of high-quality and trauma-informed prevention resources, programs, and policies across the state. The Tennessee IPV prevention program includes:
• Engaging influential adults and peers through the bystander intervention training program (Upstander Peer Education) at APSU in Clarksville, TN
• Strengthening economic supports for families through CEASE's Moving Ahead Through Financial Empowerment curriculum in Morristown, TN
• Creating protective environments through the IPV and the Workplace computer-based training program offered by the Coalition in Nashville, TN
The CDC awarded the TN Coalition with five year DELTA fund
Program Areas Served
Tennessee
The Coalition's DELTA Impact program, funded by the Center for Disease Control, works to decrease risk factors that lead to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) while increasing the protective factors that prevent violence from occurring in the first place. The program's coordinated community response teams works to prevent IPV by facilitating the access and development of high-quality and trauma-informed prevention resources, programs, and policies across the state. The Tennessee IPV prevention program includes:
• Engaging influential adults and peers through the bystander intervention training program (Upstander Peer Education) at APSU in Clarksville, TN
• Strengthening economic supports for families through CEASE's Moving Ahead Through Financial Empowerment curriculum in Morristown, TN
• Creating protective environments through the IPV and the Workplace computer-based training program offered by the Coalition in Nashville, TN
The CDC awarded the TN Coalition with five year DELTA fund
Program Areas Served
Tennessee
Description
The Coalition works on behalf of victims by monitoring legislation and advocating for laws that protect victim safety and promote offender accountability. When laws need to be changed, we assist with drafting bills that will address the problems identified by victims and advocates. Our executive director serves as our registered lobbyist at the Tennessee General Assembly. With more than thirty years experience, she works hard to make sure that Tennessee's laws protect victims and hold perpetrators accountable. In addition, the Coalition is the administrative arm of the Domestic Violence State Coordinating Council. The Council, comprising representatives from law enforcement, the courts, and victim services, was established by the Tennessee General Assembly to develop model policies and training curriculums for law enforcement agencies and the courts, and to certify and monitor batterer's intervention programs.
Program Areas Served
Tennessee
The Coalition works on behalf of victims by monitoring legislation and advocating for laws that protect victim safety and promote offender accountability. When laws need to be changed, we assist with drafting bills that will address the problems identified by victims and advocates. Our executive director serves as our registered lobbyist at the Tennessee General Assembly. With more than thirty years experience, she works hard to make sure that Tennessee's laws protect victims and hold perpetrators accountable. In addition, the Coalition is the administrative arm of the Domestic Violence State Coordinating Council. The Council, comprising representatives from law enforcement, the courts, and victim services, was established by the Tennessee General Assembly to develop model policies and training curriculums for law enforcement agencies and the courts, and to certify and monitor batterer's intervention programs.
Program Areas Served
Tennessee
Description
The Coalition provides help to survivors directly through its Immigrant Legal Clinic, Sexual Assault Legal Clinic, and Abuse Survivors Emergency Assistance Fund. Since its inception in 2004, the Immigrant Legal Clinic has provided legal advice and representation in immigration cases to more than 2,000 survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking statewide. Since 2012, the Sexual Assault Legal Clinic has served over 500 low income survivors of sexual assault. The Diane Stewart Abuse Survivors Emergency Assistance Fund provides emergency assistance to survivors of domestic and sexual violence to help them escape crisis and establish safe housing. This project began in December 2011. Today, the project provides assistance statewide to more than 100 survivors per year.
Program Areas Served
Tennessee
The Coalition provides help to survivors directly through its Immigrant Legal Clinic, Sexual Assault Legal Clinic, and Abuse Survivors Emergency Assistance Fund. Since its inception in 2004, the Immigrant Legal Clinic has provided legal advice and representation in immigration cases to more than 2,000 survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking statewide. Since 2012, the Sexual Assault Legal Clinic has served over 500 low income survivors of sexual assault. The Diane Stewart Abuse Survivors Emergency Assistance Fund provides emergency assistance to survivors of domestic and sexual violence to help them escape crisis and establish safe housing. This project began in December 2011. Today, the project provides assistance statewide to more than 100 survivors per year.
Program Areas Served
Tennessee
Description
The Coalition provides training and technical assistance on domestic and sexual violence to communities throughout Tennessee. Each year the Coalition hosts an Annual Conference, during which advocates and professionals from across Tennessee join together for three days of networking, skill building, and training from local and nationally recognized experts in the fields of domestic and sexual violence. Coalition staff members organize and provide training at the Senator Tommy Burks Victim Assistance Academy, held annually at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The Academy provides comprehensive, basic-level victim assistance training to victim services providers and allied professionals. Through our Rape Prevention and Education project, the Coalition hosts a statewide Rape Prevention and Education Institute, social media trainings in the three regions of the state, and maintenance of the prevention resource database. The purpose of this project, supported by the Centers for
Program Areas Served
Tennessee
The Coalition provides training and technical assistance on domestic and sexual violence to communities throughout Tennessee. Each year the Coalition hosts an Annual Conference, during which advocates and professionals from across Tennessee join together for three days of networking, skill building, and training from local and nationally recognized experts in the fields of domestic and sexual violence. Coalition staff members organize and provide training at the Senator Tommy Burks Victim Assistance Academy, held annually at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The Academy provides comprehensive, basic-level victim assistance training to victim services providers and allied professionals. Through our Rape Prevention and Education project, the Coalition hosts a statewide Rape Prevention and Education Institute, social media trainings in the three regions of the state, and maintenance of the prevention resource database. The purpose of this project, supported by the Centers for
Program Areas Served
Tennessee
