“…VAWA recognizes that community awareness, appropriate training, and equipment and infrastructure all contribute to a community’s readiness and ability to prevent and reduce violence. 3 Because VAWA-funded programs offer support to build capacity as the foundation for community readiness, we identified this component as the starting point of our model, a perspective consistent with other violence prevention efforts, such as the rape prevention and education model developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Niolon, Kearns, Dills, Rambo, Irving, Armstead, Gilbert, 2017; see also Cox, Lang, Townsend, & Campbell, 2010).…”