Ohio CASA/GAL Association-Celebrate Kids ConferenceColumbus, OHOct. 15, 2015

Presented by Shelby Borchers, Jo Simonsen and Dorothy Striker

Have We Met?

and Safe and Together™

Contextualize the initiatives and

partnerships of the Ohio Intimate

Partner Violence Collaborative.

Understand the principles and critical

components of the Safe and Together

model in the context of a Differential Response child

protection system.

Identify actions advocates and other participants can take in their professional roles to support adult survivors and the well-being of their children.

Differential ResponseDIFFERENTIAL RESPONSE

Expansion

Pilot

Identification of Safe and Together

Formation of Ohio IPV Collaborative

Differential Response Pilot

Better screening • Better assessments of protective capacities and patterns of coercive control • Improved efforts to hold batterers accountable and partner with non-offending parents • Including batterers on case plans • Understanding of impact on children • Behaviorally specific documentation • Enhanced community collaborations • More appropriate referrals for perpetrators, non-offending parents, and children • More regular communication between child protection agencies and domestic violence programs • County-to-county exchanges of ideas • Addressing trauma impact in children • Presenting specific behavioral evidence before courts •

MISSIONTo increase the safety and well-being of children

exposed to domestic violence

Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration.

Ohio IPV Collabor

ative

Safe and Together Training

Certified Trainers

Community TAPost-

Training Support

Planning Group

Evaluation

Judicial Trainings

34 counties trained

7 counties in training

Safe and Together Principles

From David Mandel & Associates at http://endingviolence.com

Safe and Together Critical Components

From David Mandel & Associates at http://endingviolence.com

Community Technical Assistance

Rationale for Community TA

• Increases safety, health and wellness• Inspires more fair and just decisions• Collaboration improves fidelity• Promotes and sustains effective interventions• Expresses batterer and systems accountability• Strives for equity, accessibility • Improves visibility, awareness• Identifies DV as a community child safety priority

Opportunities for CASAs/GALs

• Accept invitations to training days– Core, Enhanced Advocacy Day, Community Partner Day

• Challenge and encourage cross-system counterparts

• Be a voice for child victims/survivors• Aim to identify model within case work• Facilitate collaborative solutions• Expect and advocate batterer accountability• Monitor progress and outcomes

STRONG EVIDENC

E

• LESS VICTIM BLAMING• BETTER

DOCUMENTATION AND AWARENESS OF IMPACT ON CHILDREN

Thank you!Acknowledgement: All pictures in this presentation are courtesy of Clip Art, unless otherwise noted.