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

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. 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 and Center for Women in Transition, 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 Brochure 2012

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Vision Statement: To engage our community through education and collaboration to prevent domestic and sexual violence and promote healthy relationships.

In 2011, over 3,100 middle and high school students participated in the DELTA Healthy Relationships curriculum compared to over 2,600 the year before.
As of December 2011, over 12,000 local teens in Allegan and Ottawa Counties have participated in the curriculum since the program began in 2006.
The DELTA Community Prevention Committee launched the Ottawa County Prevention Plan and promotes the Abuse of Any One Harms Everyone prevention slogan to promote community prevention efforts.
DELTA hosted “Upstream 2010″ at Grand Valley State University Holland Meijer Campus for the faith community.
Jackson Katz presented “Men, Masculinity & Media” at Grand Valley State University in November 2010 and talked with high school students in Zeeland about bullying. Jackson Katz spoke to 450 students, faculty, and community members at Hope College Knickerbocker Theatre at 4pm on April 14, 2011 (see spring 2011 newsletter page 5).
DELTA partners with Hope College TRiO Upward Bound to engage high school students in educating peers, parents, and the community about dating violence through the Teens Preventing Dating Violence summer class and teen group.