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Making the Case for Domestic Violence Prevention Through the Lens of Cost-Benefit

A Manual for Domestic Violence Prevention Practitioners
(and the State and Local Policy-Makers They Present to)


Initial Investment

The cost of a program, in this case a prevention program, is described as the initial program cost or what is also called the initial investment.