Family Advocacy and General Counseling Programs

1. Family Advocacy and General Counseling Programs Paulette Hubbert LCSW, MSW, ADC II, CHt Section Head, Family Advocacy/General Counseling paulette.hubbert@usmc.mil

2. Family Advocacy and General Counseling • Family Advocacy and General Counseling Mission • Family Advocacy is a command program designed to prevent and respond to incidents of child and spousal abuse. The program is staffed with clinicians, victim advocates, home visitors and prevention specialists who work as part of a coordinated response to meet the needs of service members and their families on the installation.

3. Family Advocacy and General Counseling Section Head Paulette Hubbert Program Assistant/TCAFM Capt M. Harvey Admin Assistant Michelle Dewald Clinical Program Joy Westermeier Prevention Leslie Byam Victim Advocacy Vacant New Parent Support Kathy Olson Program Analyst Tony Robertson

4. Family Advocacy and General Counseling Prevention & Support Activities • General Counseling • Victim Advocacy • New Parent Support • Prevention

5. Family Advocacy and General Counseling • Pre FY06 data reflects substantiated spouse abuse incidents only. Per DoD mandate commencing 2nd quarter FY06, data includes intimate partners. • Therefore, domestic abuse victims include current or former spouses, those who share a child in common, current or former intimate partners of the opposite sex who share or have shared • common domicile. Adult victims of domestic abuse may choose “restricted reporting” whereby investigation of the report of domestic violence is not initiated but medical and support • services are offered. • FY11 Restricted report data is reported quarterly. • * Live data- subject to change • **Data is extracted from the Central Registry (live data), as of 1 September 2011.

6. Family Advocacy and General Counseling DV and Child Abuse

7. Family Advocacy and General Counseling Types of Domestic Violence

8. Family Advocacy and General Counseling Types of Child Abuse

9. IDC/CCSM Number of Substantiated cases/increase with case outcome Consistency, Reliability, Safety Provision of Services Marines and Families Family Advocacy and General Counseling

10. Family Advocacy and General Counseling IDC Lessoned Learned • Difficulties with roll out w/o an the order • MARADMIN • Questions remain about IDC membership • Positive feedback from commands/Senior Leadership

11. Family Advocacy and General Counseling Program Challenges • General Counseling (Scope and Practice) • Standardized Workforce • Increased caseloads of clinical staff • Hiring Freeze

12. Family Advocacy and General Counseling Current/New Initiatives • Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) program and Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) pilot study . • Development of Desk Reference Guide with policy guidance and best practices for all FAP staff • Development of an evidence-based home visiting model for New Parent Support staff • First Annual FAP Conference

13. Family Advocacy and General Counseling Policy • Revision of MCO for FAP • DADT Per DoD 6400.1-M-1 : • AP 1.22. Intimate Partner. A person of the with whom the victim shares a child in common, or a person with whom the victim shares or has shared a common domicile. • AP1.39. Victim. A child or current or former spouse or intimate partner who is the subject of an alleged incident of child maltreatment or domestic abuse because he/she was allegedly maltreated by the alleged abuser.

14. Family Advocacy and General Counseling Integration • DV/SAPR VA MARADMIN 509/11 • COSC and Suicide Prevention Briefs • Early identification and referral

15. Family Advocacy and General Counseling Questions