Service Provider Perspectives on Family Violence Interventions (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Spousal Victim Services
Spousal Victim Services
Pages 23-38
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Although the Pilgrims had adopted laws that prohibited beating female spouses and violence against husbands, and social reform measures were adopted in the latter half of the nineteenth century to stop wife beating and other forms of family violence, it was not until the late 1970s that feminist activists and clinical researchers created a concerted national effort to document and publicize this issue and engage legal, social, and health institutions in developing a broad range of intervention and prevention services. Schechter (1982)
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Pp. 209-240 in Women and Male Violence.
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introduce health care providers to the issue of domestic violence and provide a means for them to discuss domestic violence with the women they examine in contexts such as prenatal programs, nutritional seminars, and diabetes classes. In the secondary prevention, or early intervention, programs, project staff help hospital emergency personnel to identify victims of domestic violence, provide for the victim's immediate safety, and refer the victim to community resources.
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Anecdotal reports suggest that the medical faculty and students are increasingly receptive to the inclusion of domestic violence training components in the educational process of both young and senior physicians and other health personnel. Evaluation studies have not yet been prepared, however, to gauge which forms of education or training are particularly effective in this field.
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Moreover, an approach that concentrates on individual factors will not be able to address underlying social issues or cultural beliefs that may condone or perpetuate male violence against women. Transforming Communities takes a firm nositic~n that men's violence against _ ,= ~.
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variables, including size of the community, the degree of need for services, and indicators of citizen and community readiness for an intimate violence prevention project. Novato shower!
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Realizing that alternatives were needed to meet the practical limitations on shelter availability, the program staff decided to expand in new directions, to develop additional choices for services available to battered women, ant! to create efforts that go beyond basic shelter toward a self-suff~ciency model.
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alcohol treatment have acknowledged that domestic violence affects large numbers of their clients, and they are interested in seeking effective solutions to these difficult issues. After developing a nonresident counseling program, a separate legal advocacy department was created whose staff works directly with the justice system, serving 4,500 women in 1994 and representing an important alternative to shelter.
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Assessments of the level of violence are done in a variety of ways, inclurting the follow-up program with former shelter residents, contacts through the Home Find program or volunteer efforts, and informal "check-ins" with nonresident clients through weekly support groups or a monthly coffee house. One of the most difficult components of the program to evaluate include the school prevention programs.
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a training program has been developed for the Domestic Violence Reduction Unit, composed of crisis teams of police officers and counselor/advocates from CAWC and another service agency who visit homes together in response to 911 calls. The role of these teams is to provide intervention for victims, including direct service, crisis intervention counseling, safe refuge, and referral to shelter services; ant!
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The Domestic Violence Reduction Program does not yet have a formal evaluation component. The program relies on interim measures of effects, and project staff have noted that the number of calls to the unit have increased, as have the number of orders of protection, reports, and complaints filed, since the demonstration project began.
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Staff eventually realized that domestic violence was a key factor that inhibited women from requesting legal assistance services. In 1986, Ayuda established a comprehensive program to serve battered immigrant women, and in 1994 Ayuda's legal clinic, which is staffed by three attorneys, provided services to 390 women in a variety of cases involving restraining orders, child custody decisions, anti immigration services.
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more likely to be victims of domestic violence than those married to Latino immigrants. Some clients eventually change from victims of domestic violence to community activists working against it.
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Similarly, panelists noted that although some police departments have made efforts to support domestic violence victims, individual officers on the street may not be as helpful. Many police officers may not recognize domestic violence incidents as part of an ongoing pattern of behavior.
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At present, however, these databases have no injury code for domestic violence. Many domestic violence training and service programs rely on categorical funding, comparable to drug and alcohol treatment centers.
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