The Empowerment Evaluation project is a three year collaborative effort between the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the North Dakota Council on Abused Women’s Services, the North Dakota Department of Health and the Center for Rural Health who will work with up to 19 local agencies providing intimate partner and sexual assault prevention services. The project began in February 2006.
Purpose
The purpose of the Empowerment Evaluation project is to conduct an overall program evaluation and assist with capacity building of intimate partner and sexual violence evaluation efforts at the local and state level, making contributions to a similar national effort involving 14 other state coalitions. This project crosses over two different programs with three distinct areas of focus administered by the North Dakota Council on Abused Women's Services. Following is a description of each program's purpose, both of which are focus areas of the empowerment evaluation project: 1) Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA), and 2) EMPOWER.
The purpose of North Dakota’s DELTA project is to stimulate the development and implementation of activities to prevent intimate partner domestic violence that can be integrated into coordinated community responses (CCRs) or similar community based collaborations, including task forces and interagency groups at a local level.
The purpose of North Dakota’s EMPOWER project is to develop a statewide planning team, representative of the population, to develop a statewide prevention plan for intimate partner and sexual violence. The project provides funding to local programs in North Dakota for the purposes of developing and implementing activities related to prevention of sexual abuse.
Partners
This collaborative effort includes work with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the North Dakota Council on Abused Women's Services, the North Dakota Department of Health, and the Center for Rural Health.
Goals
The Empowerment Evaluation team works collaboratively with its partners to increase the capacity at the state and local level for organizations to plan, implement, evaluate and sustain initiatives designed to prevent intimate partner and sexual violence in North Dakota.
Ten principles guide the project and represent a philosophy of evaluation designed to increase the likelihood that communities or states achieve their mission or goals. The 10 principles are:
