Domestic Violence Program

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Domestic Violence Program

• Trula Motta, Program Director
• Department of Children Families
• Julie Ann Rivers-Cochran, MSW, Director of
  Programs
• Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence

February 6, 2008
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Program Office Responsibilities

• Oversight of state federal funding
• Certification and monitoring of domestic violence
  centers and batterers intervention programs
• Grant management
• Technical assistance

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Basic Principles

• Domestic violence is criminal behavior
• It is essentially a gender-based crime and occurs
  when one person in an intimate relationship uses
  a variety of coercive tactics to maintain power
  and control over the other
• Two prong approach direct intervention services
  and policy development and implementation

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History

• 1970s - First domestic violence centers
  established in Florida, beginning of statewide
  coalition, standards for centers developed
• 1980s - Marriage License Trust Fund/FVPSA, change
  references of spouse abuse to domestic violence,
  notice of rights and remedies

• 1990s 2000s Significant changes including the
  Governors Task Force on Domestic Violence and
  VAWA funding resulting in development and
  implementation of 50 changes to Florida
  statutes to increase perpetrator accountability
  and victim safety

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History

• 1990s 2007
• Warrantless arrest
• 24 hour availability of judges to do injunctions
• DV definition expanded to include any family or
  household member
• Increased penalties for domestic violence
• Training for law enforcement, HIV-AIDS providers,
  other health care workers

• Victim privilege
• Statewide injunction verification system/Data
  Collection by FDLE
• Commission on Minimum Standards for Batterer
  programs
• Batterer programs mandated
• Prohibits sale of weapon to offenders arrested
  for stalking, or a repeat violation injunction

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Trends
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Trends
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Current Strategies

• Continue building a collaborative model that
  directs resources to human service partners such
  as mental health, substance abuse, child welfare
  and others outside of the criminal justice system

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Primary Prevention ofDomestic ViolencePlanning
for a Violence-Free Future
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Prevention of Domestic Violence

• Governor Charlie Crist's Primary Prevention of
  Domestic Violence Statewide Initiative
• DELTA Project
• Economic Justice Initiative

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DELTA Purpose

• D Domestic Violence Coalitions
• E Enhance Coordinated Community Response (CCR)
  prevention focus through
• L Leadership in
• T Training, technical assistance and funding
  opportunities and
• A Alliances with local communities

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Prevention of Domestic ViolenceAs A Public
Health Issue

• Centers for Disease Control and Injury Prevention
  (CDC)
• Violence against women is a substantial public
  health problem in the United States.

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The Public Health Approach to Prevention of
Domestic Violence
Disseminate Effective Strategies
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The Social Ecological Model
Individual
Relationship
Community
Society
Factors at each level of the social ecology
contribute to the perpetration of domestic
violence in our society.
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Why Prevention?

• Adolescents are influenced by many factors that
  support or condone domestic violence. Each of
  these factors need to be addressed in a
  consistent, systematic, and systemic manner.
• This recognizes that changes in the environment
  and long-term programs are needed.

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Who is DELTA?
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FL DELTA Sites
Okaloosa Walton
Alachua
Orange
Pasco
Pinellas
Palm Beach
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Coaching Boys Into MenPinellas County DELTA
Project
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Pasco High Interest GroupPasco County DELTA
Project
Challenge Gender Stereotypes
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Pasco High Interest GroupPasco County DELTA
Project
Young Women Men Working Together to End
Domestic Sexual Violence