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Guiding Framework for Interventions . Recommendation 1 To achieve three outcomes Create Safety Enhance Well-Being Provide Stability for Children and Families
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Guiding Framework for Interventions • Recommendation 1 • To achieve three outcomes • Create Safety • Enhance Well-Being • Provide Stability for Children and Families • All recommendations adapted from Effective Interventions In Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy and Practice © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Recommendation 2 • Creating safety for the adult victim and stopping batterer assaults removes risk and creates permanency for the child © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
How Do You Create Safety? • Service Planning With a Focus on: • Securing Safe Housing • Advocacy Services • Help Secure Financial Income • Emotional Support for Adult Victim & Children • Legal Assistance for Custody and/or Orders of Protection © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Recommendation 3 • Make Every Effort to Develop Separate Service Plans for the Adult Victims and the Perpetrator of Violence Regardless of Their Legal Status © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Perpetrators Are Often Left Out Because They May Not Be • Living in the Home • Legally or Biologically Related to the Child • Inconsistent Presence in the Family • Make Workers Feel Unsafe © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Service Plans For Perpetrators Should Include… • Cessations of All Forms of Violence to all Members of the Family • Cessation of Interference with Partner’s Efforts to Parent Safely • Compliance With Protective Orders and Other Court Mandates • Compliance With Batterers Programs © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Recommendation 4 • Keep the child with the non-offending parent whenever possible © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Remember… • To Avoid Blaming the Non-Abusive Parent for “Failure to Protect” Against the Violence Committed by the Batterer © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Recommendation 5 • Avoid using or use cautiously interventions such as: • Couples Therapy • Mediation • Family Conferencing • Anger Management Classes © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Recommendation 6 • Pay careful attention to visitation arrangements that may endanger adult victims and their children © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Points to Assess • Perpetrators History of Abuse and Neglect to Children • Level of Continued Danger to the Adult Victim of IPV • History and Pattern of Abuse • History of Using Children In Violence or Exposing them to Violence © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Level of Coercive Control Exhibited by The Perpetrator of Violence • History of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness • Perpetrators Willingness to Accept Decisions From Victim, Law Enforcement etc. • Risk of Child Abduction • Bancroft and Silverman 2002 © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Recommendation 7 • If a child needs to be placed in foster care, with a relative or with an adoptive family assessments prior to placement should • Determine Ability to Keep Child Safe • Ensure Safety During Visitation • Determine that Caregiver is Supportive of the Adult Victim of Violence © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
When Evaluating If a Placement is Appropriate © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Assessing The Risk to Children • Detailed Review of the Trauma • Current Symptoms • Developmental History • Reactions of Adult Victim and Perpetrator on the Childs Experience and Symptoms • Groves, Roberts and Weinreb 2000 © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Assess For Safety • Does the Adult Victim of Violence Perceive Themselves or Their Children to be Safe © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Parenting • Adequacy of Victim and Perpetrator Parenting in the Context of IPV © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Risk of Continued Exposure to the Perpetrator • Risk of continued undermining of Adult Victim Parenting and Relationship with Non-Abusive Parent • Continued Exposure to Authoritative or Neglectful Parenting © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation
Risk of Continued Exposure to Violence • Risk of Learning Violent Behaviors • Risk of Being a “Tool” for the Perpetrator • Bancroft and Silverman 2002 © 2004-2005 CDHS College Relations Group Buffalo State College/SUNY at Buffalo Research Foundation