Intimate Partner Violence: Prevention Strategies
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious problem that has lasting and harmful effects on individuals, families, and communities. CDC’s goal is to stop intimate partner violence from happening in the first place.
Prevention efforts should ultimately reduce the occurrence of IPV by promoting healthy, respectful, nonviolent relationships. Healthy relationships can be promoted by addressing risk and protective factors at the individual, relationship, community, and societal levels.
CDC developed a resource, Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Resource for Action [5 MB, 62 Pages] to help states and communities take advantage of the best available evidence to prevent intimate partner violence, support survivors, and lessen the short and long-term harms. The strategies and their corresponding approaches are listed in the table below.
Preventing Intimate Partner Violence |
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| Strategy | Approach |
| Teach safe and healthy relationship skills |
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| Engage influential adults and peers |
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| Disrupt the developmental pathways toward partner violence |
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| Create protective environments |
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| Strengthen economic supports for families |
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| Support survivors to increase safety and lessen harms |
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