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 Victim Service Programs for Violence Against Women: Links With Other Community Agencies (From Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy, 2004, Bonnie Fisher, ed. -- See
NCJ-199701)
NCJ Number
              199725

Author(s)
          Janine M. Zweig, Martha R. Burt
Date Published

January 2004
Length
              8 pages
Annotation
              As part of an evaluation of STOP (Services, Training Officers,
Prosecutors) Violence Against Women Formula Grants Program, a
Federal initiative to stimulate the growth of services for women
who have been victims of violence, this paper describes how such
victim service programs interact with other agencies in their
communities.
Abstract
              Representatives of 200 victim service programs with STOP grants
participated in an in-depth telephone interview and completed a
faxed questionnaire. Of the programs represented in the
interviews, 86 percent focus their services on domestic violence,
and 13 percent address sexual assault. The programs provide
various types of direct services to women victims of violence,
such as legal/court advocacy, comprehensive safety planning,
counseling, individual advocacy, and medical advocacy. After the
interviews were completed, researchers rated each community based on victim service program reports on how well agencies
communicate, coordinate, and collaborate in the community and
whether or not the agencies in the community work together to
provide a coordinated community response. Respondents were asked
to identify two primary partner agencies in their community with
which they had the most frequent and useful contact to address
violence against women. Law enforcement agencies were named by 65 percent of respondents, and prosecution agencies were named by 42 percent of the respondents. Other agencies that partnered with
victim service programs represented in the sample included
governmental social services (25 percent); courts or judges (16
percent); legal aid (11 percent); health care agencies (8
percent); and mental health agencies, substance abuse agencies,
probation/parole agencies, governmental victim service agencies, and community service agencies (less than 4 percent each).
Communities were rated as to whether or not they achieved
coordinated community responses to women victims of violence. To
be rated as having a coordinated community response for domestic
violence (the highest level of interaction), a community's law
enforcement, prosecution, and the victim service program all had
to be interacting at the level of collaboration. For sexual
assault, the same criterion applied, with the addition of the
medical community. Only 15 percent of responding communities were
rated as having a coordinated community response. More than half
of the victim service programs that did not serve on a task force
with either of their primary agencies, however, still received
the highest rating on communication, and approximately 14 percent received the highest rating on coordination. Most victim service
programs attributed increases in interaction with community
agencies to their STOP-funded program or another STOP-funded
program in their community. Task forces can be useful forums for
agencies in working together, particularly in those communities
rated as having a "coordinated community response." 5 references
      
  
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