The Lane County Violence Prevention Coalition (LCVPC) is dedicated to fostering a community where violence is prevented before it starts, and where everyone has the opportunity to thrive in a safe and supportive environment.
Our approach to primary prevention is grounded in a trauma-informed lens, acknowledging the deep impact of trauma on individuals and communities. This perspective shapes our work to prioritize safety, empowerment, and inclusivity in all our efforts.
Our aim is to change attitudes, behaviors, and knowledge in the community. We believe that success is measured not just through traditional surveys but also through ongoing engagement, information sharing, and continued investment in learning and involvement by participants. While our efforts are designed to benefit the general population, they are adaptable to meeting the needs of specific demographics or contexts without exclusively targeting those considered at risk.
Key Elements of Our Approach
Evidence-Based & Research-Informed
Strategies are grounded in proven methods and current research, ensuring that the work is both effective and relevant. One specific strategy is to continuously seek input from participants to refine and improve our approach.
Promotes Protective Factors
Protective factors that play a critical role in preventing violence include housing stability, food security, community connection, income support, access to healthcare, cultural affirmation, fostering healthy relationships, and developing critical thinking skills.
Trauma Informed
This includes approaches that are strengths-based and survivor-centered.
- Survivor-Centered
- Self-care emphasis: Encourages the prioritization of personal well-being.
- Empowerment: Values the autonomy of individuals by recognizing their expertise in their own lives.
- Naming the challenge: Encourages open dialogue about challenges, allowing for multiple paths to address them.
- Offering choices: Provides individuals with options, ensuring they feel in control of their decisions.
- Centering lived experience: Involves those who have experienced trauma directly in program development and implementation.
- Strengths-Based
- Focus on building on individuals’ strengths and assets, rather than emphasizing deficits.
- Our approach explicitly avoids gendered or binary language, fear-based tactics, a “fixer” or savior mentality, and deficit-based frameworks.
- Ongoing evaluation is a vital component of our work. We recognize the challenges that come with evaluation, particularly for organizations with limited capacity, and aim to find realistic measures that reflect accessibility, safety, inclusivity, and a sense of belonging. Key areas of focus for evaluation include:
- Accessibility, safety, and inclusivity
- Creating a supportive environment
- Programs developed with input from people with lived experience
- Utilization of pre- and post-surveys as tools for measuring impact
Aimed at the General Population
This means that it is not specifically targeting people who are at-risk of experiencing violence. Programs or curriculums that are targeted for a certain age or certain demographic are considered to be aimed at the general population.
Prevention Toolkits
“Dive deeper into topics about violence prevention programs and practice, such as how to address risks shared by different forms of violence or how to effectively build partnerships. Each tool and training will equip you with a unique set of skills that can bolster your work to stop violence before it starts.”
Blueprint for Family Well-being for Primary Prevention in the U.S.. While this is specifically focused on preventing child abuse, there are components that can be drawn on for all types of violence prevention.
“This toolkit has been designed to be both a resource and a guide for anyone in the state of Oregon who is interested in preventing violence. As the main focus of SATF’s work is preventing sexual violence, there is a specific focus on this in this toolkit. We know however, that if we are effectively addressing the root causes of sexual violence, we are also addressing the root causes of other forms of violence as well. Informed by preventionists and other professionals all across the state, the goal of this toolkit is to support effective and thoughtful efforts, that collaboratively work to prevent violence and abuse across the life span. It combines public health theory, current best practices, and tips from state and national partners. While we recommend moving through the workbook chronologically, you can also move through each section independently, gaining insight and inspiration for current strengths and challenges”
“Through our Safety Net project, NNEDV focuses on the intersection of technology and abuse and works to address how it impacts the safety and privacy. Building on more than twenty years of experience addressing this intersection, Safety Net provides expert training and technical assistance, creates and disseminates resources, and influences dialogue globally, through in-person and virtual events on emerging issues.”
Accessibility
Accessing violence prevention resources is a necessary part of violence prevention so we’ve included accessible and culturally expansive resources here:
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