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Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA) Project

As a community, we can prevent domestic violence by educating ourselves, our employees, our families and youth in an effort to understand the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that allow domestic violence to occur.

The DELTA Project of Ottawa County, a project of Lakeshore Alliance Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, is dedicated to working with local communities, schools, faith leaders, parents, youth, and men and boys as allies to prevent domestic violence before it happens. Domestic violence is a community wide issue. We all have a role to play in prevention. You can help prevent domestic and dating violence.

DELTA promotes healthy relationships, seeking consent, and being an active bystander in an effort to prevent first time perpetration and victimization of domestic and dating violence.

In 2009, over 2,300 middle and high school students participated in the DELTA Healthy Relationships curriculum. As of November 2009, over 5,000 local teens have participated in the curriculum since the program began in 2006.
The DELTA Community Prevention Committee developed the Abuse of Any One Harms Everyone prevention slogan to promote community prevention efforts.
In 2005 and 2006, DELTA engaged over 400 college students and community members at both “A Call To Men” events at Hope College and Grand Valley State University.
DELTA has hosted two community-wide domestic violence faith community trainings. In partnership with A Call To Men, DELTA hosted “Upstream: How Faith Communities Can Prevent Domestic Violence Together” in 2006. In partnership with Safe Haven Ministries and GVSU Women’s Center, DELTA hosted the “Engaging the Heart: A Call To Action” in 2007.
Eighteen high school students, participating in the Hope College TRiO Upward Bound Summer Session 2009, took part in a six-week Teens Preventing Dating Violence class to develop our webpage on preventing dating violence. Thank you to all of the students who positively impacted our community and made this website possible. Class Snapshot
The DELTA Project coordinator was named the 2009 Outstanding Agency Professional in Ottawa County at the “Together We Can” Appreciation Dinner. View Article

Lakeshore Alliance Against Domestic & Sexual Violance