The purpose of the plan outlined in this document is to initiate, enhance, and expand statewide primary prevention initiatives. The State Prevention Plan constructs a blueprint of goals, creating a comprehensive approach to preventing domestic violence in New York.

The NYSCADV Prevention Project Toolkit contains exercises, activities, primers, information and resources designed to help individuals and groups think about what would prevent domestic violence from happening in their communities. Tools and resources are chosen carefully, based on lessons learned from the New York State DELTA Project and successes from local domestic violence programs throughout the state. Tools and techniques promoted in the toolkit support groups and individuals to go through their own process of discovery and decision-making to determine the role they wish to play in changing their communities.