North Carolina Helps Partners Identify

Shared Community & Societal Level Risk and Protective Factors

North Carolina has applied ground-breaking, creative strategies to reduce the burden of injury and violence across the state by choosing to grant special attention to prevention strategies capable of influencing more than one type of violence outcome.

In 2009, the North Carolina Division of Public Health’s Injury and Violence Prevention (IVP) Branch partnered with the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCCADV), the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina to develop shared definitions of violence and understand shared risk and protective factors. This cooperative effort and strategic planning process has helped them:

1. Strengthen partnerships across violence areas and funding streams (e.g. Core Violence and Injury Prevention Program grant, DELTA FOCUS grant, Rape Prevention and Education grant);
2. Develop tools to promote a shared risk and protective factor approach;
3. Raise awareness of this approach among their partners; and
4. Begin to initiate a paradigm shift in the way violence is addressed across the state.

To learn more about the why, how, and what’s been learned from adopting a shared risk and protective factor approach in North Carolina, read on.

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