North Carolina 10-Year Plan to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence

This plan represents the first effort on this scale in North Carolina to address the factors that increase risk for perpetration of intimate partner violence and to promote factors which create healthy, sustainable families and communities. The structure of this document reflects our core commitment„to reach out to every North Carolinian with messaging about healthy relationships, with some specific focus on those groups which carry the heaviest burden of risk for being affected by violence. This plan has goals that address every age group, and which target four thematic areas: 1) relationship norms and parenting skills, 2) community engagement, 3) education and 4) prevention system. It is our sincere hope that the implementation of this plan will bring about the changes needed to develop solid evidence about the prevalence and causes of domestic violence and will produce measurable change in the impact and incidence of intimate partner violence in North Carolina.