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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, 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.

LAADSV Summer Newsletter 2010

LAADSV Spring Newsletter 2010

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

In 2010, over 2,500 middle and high school students participated in the DELTA Healthy Relationships curriculum. As of June 2010, over 7,300 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.
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. See Upcoming Events for the October 6 training Upstream 2010: Promoting Healthy Communication and Respect in Relationships.
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.
In 2010, sixteen students participated in the summer class. In 2009, eighteen high school students 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
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.