Promising Practices in Domestic Violence
This section will highlight innovative approaches within the civil and criminal legal response to violence against women that promote victim safety and/or offender accountability. To suggest a practice for this section contact technicalassistance@bwjp.org.
Not Just Promising but Proven and Effective
New Zealand's KIDshine shines as an example of advocacy initiated response to children who witness domestic violence. Shine (Safer Homes in New Zealand Everyday) has been providing advocacy to abused women and their children for many years. Since 2002, KIDshine has added follow-up contacts with abused mothers and their children in Auckland through in-home visitation to address safety planning, trauma, and recovery. Continue reading...
The Ohio IPV Collaborative Builds Competency Within Child Protective Services
The Ohio IPV Collaborative works to build Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) competency within child protective services agencies and fosters enhanced partnerships among child welfare, courts, DV/IPV service providers and other critical stakeholders, consistent with several recommendations in the Greenbook, a landmark 1999 publication. The Greenbook set forth guiding principles and sixty-three recommendations from the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. Continue reading...
Seattle's "Peace In The Home Helpline" Provides Culturally Specific Responses
Since January 2009, the City of Seattle’s Human Services Department in partnership with a collaborative of community-based agencies has operated an innovative toll-free hotline for limited-English proficient (LEP) victims of domestic violence that provides single-line access to domestic violence services and information in 14 languages. The “Peace in the Home Helpline” -- 1-888-847-7205 – is a unique and cost-effective call transfer system that uses existing technology to route LEP callers to community-based programs that can meet their language and service needs. Continue reading...
Technology and Data Sharing Enhance CCR in Grand Forks, ND
Since 2001, Grand Forks, North Dakota, a small city of about 51,000 in a county whose total population is about 66,000, has linked several community agencies via technology to track the criminal and civil justice response to domestic violence. Since 2009, sexual assault cases have been tracked as well. Law enforcement reports and corresponding court data have been collected and entered into the Domestic Abuse Information Network (DAIN) database. Continue reading...
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