California Department of Public Health Domestic Violence Program Battered Womens Shelter Program BWS

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California Department of Public HealthDomestic
Violence ProgramBattered Womens Shelter Program
(BWSP)
WELCOME to the Domestic Violence Advisory Council
Meeting Webcast June 3, 2008

200 pm to 400 pm

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DVAC Meeting Agenda

• 0200 p.m. Roll Call/Introductions
• MCAH/OFP Update
• 2008-09 Fiscal Year
• U/U TAT Project Update
• Next Executive Directors Meeting
• DVAC Meeting Quarterly Schedule for 2008-09
• DVP Grantee Survey Findings
• CDPH staff presentation
• DVAC Discussion of Survey Findings and
• Recommendations to CDPH
• Open Discussion/Public Comment
• 0400 p.m. Adjourn

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2008 Review of Research, Data, and Literature on
Domestic Violence in California
Presented to Domestic Violence Advisory Council
June 3, 2008
Presenters Nigretta Bradley, MPH, DVP Health
Education Consultant
Moreen Libet, PhD, MCAH Research Program
Specialist Special Acknowledgement

David Berger, MPH
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California StatisticsDomestic Violence

• Approximately 5 of women experience intimate
  partner violence annually (IPV)
• Over 40 experienced IPV in their lifetime
• 134 murders as a result of IPV in 2006
• 110 were women killed by a intimate partner
• 176,229 domestic violence (DV) related calls to
  law enforcement in 2006
• 43,911 DV arrests in 2006
• California Womens Health Survey, 2003
• California Department of Justice (DOJ)
  Criminal Justice Statistics Center (CJSC), 2006

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BWSP Program History

• Violence Against Women Act
• First comprehensive federal legislation to
  respond to DV was introduced in 1990
• California established BWSP in 1994
• Provides direct services, prevention activities,
  and outreach to unserved/underserved (U/U)
  populations

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Service Needs of Domestic Violence
Victims

• Are we providing the services that California
  women want to receive as services?
• Top 10 self-seeking service needs reported among
  BWSP clients

• Legal Services (68.8)
• Support Groups (58.5)
• Crisis Counseling (56.6)
• Health Services (55.1)
• Housing (38.3)

• Shelter (34.2)
• Job Training (33.5)
• Childrens Therapy/Counseling (31.3)
• Financial Help (23.2)
• Other Programs/Services (14.4)

California Womens Health Survey, 2003
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Service Needs of Domestic Violence
Victims

• Why is it important to know the victims
  perspective on desired service needs?
• CWHS found that of BWSP clients who experienced
  IPV
• 21.4 had knowledge of community DV programs and
  reported they sought help
• 28.8 neither sought help nor had knowledge about
  DV programs in their communities
• California Womens Health Survey,
  2003

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Unmet Service Needs of Domestic Violence
Victims
According to researchers, such as The National
Network to End Domestic Violence Census, 2007
Florida State University of Family Violence,
2007 and Gorde et. al., 2004) these limitations
include

• Over capacity of emergency shelter and/or
  transitional housing
• Lack of or insufficient transportation in rural
  communities
• Pro-bono legal services to assist in restraining
  orders, divorce, child custody, immigration
  issues, etc.
• Lack of available, immediate, and convenient
  childcare services

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Unmet Service Needs of Domestic Violence
Victims

• Additional Limitations
• Lack of medical and treatment care
• Inability to provide linguistic competency
  on-site
• Inability to provide basic necessities
• Lack of provision for life skills, education, and
  vocational training
• Inadequate best practices/strategies for
  education and prevention activities
• Unsustainable working collaborations
• Lack of program resources

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Strategic Planning

• Domestic Violence Advisory Council
• Preventing Domestic Violence A Blueprint for
  the 21st Century Policy Report
• Purpose
• Mobilize policymakers, individuals and
  communities to strategic action toward preventing
  DV
• Goals
• Develop and distribute community-specific
  prevention and intervention strategies
• Increase capacity of communities to further
  support domestic violence victims and hold
  abusers accountable
• Shift social norms regarding the acceptability of
  domestic violence

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Strategic Planning

• Domestic Violence Advisory Council
• Preventing Domestic Violence A Blueprint for
  the 21st Century Policy Report
• Six Key Issues Formulated
• Strengthen and expand domestic violence programs
  and resources
• Protect children and youth from domestic violence
• Ensure abuser accountability
• Promote economic independence for domestic
  violence victims
• Prevent domestic violence
• Improve state government operations relating to
  domestic violence

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Unserved/Underserved Populations

• There is a need to address
  non-traditional populations

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Unserved/Underserved Populations

• Who are these U/U populations?
• OES 2007 Service Priority Study Evaluation
• Undocumented immigrants
• Incarcerated victims
• Victims of human and sex trafficking
• Older adults
• Women in the military
• Victims of cyber stalking
• Teens

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Unserved/Underserved Populations
In 2005, a BWSP Grantee Survey identified
services for special hard to serve populations

• Most respondents reported targeting
• Women of color
• Adolescents
• Individuals needing language assistance
• Targeted Activities for Special Populations
  Served by Domestic Violence, 2005

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Unserved/Underserved Populations
In 2005, a BWSP Grantee Survey identified
services for special hard to serve populations
The priority population least identified for
prevention outreach

• Lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender
• Disabled
• Substance users
• Elderly
• Pregnant women
• Those suffering from mental illness
• Targeted Activities for Special
  Populations Served by Domestic Violence, 2005

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National Statistics of
Ethnic/Cultural Populations

• 2006 National Violence Against Women Survey
• African American women
• Experienced IPV at a rate of 35 more than white
  females
• Experienced IPV 2.5 times the rate of other
  racial/ethnic groups
• Latino women
• Experienced IPV 23.4 in their lifetime
• Native American women
• Experienced IPV 37.5 in their lifetime
• Asian/Pacific Islander women (API Institute
  Survey)
• 41-60 reported experiencing IPV in their
  lifetime

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BWSP U/U Activities

• DVP has funded various projects to reach
  non-traditional users of domestic violence
  services
• Communities of color
• Children/Youth
• LGBTQ
• Disabled and developmentally disabled women
• Women experiencing mental health and substance
  abuse issues

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Funding Models Review

• A review of state funding models and priorities
  across the country for domestic violence
  residential programs was conducted to examine
  different strategies for awarding funds to
  shelter programs
• Special acknowledgement to David Berger, MPH who
  conducted the funding model review

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Funding Models Review

• Florida
• Considers population, rural, geographic area
  factors and the incidence of DV
• Certified agencies confirm that they offer
  certain core services
• Agencies undergo an initial certification for
  eligibility and annual recertification review
  thereafter
• Requires a new agency to demonstrate why their
  services are needed

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Funding Models Review

• Washington
• Formula used combines population and geographic
  factors
• Shelter Based Agencies
• Non-competitive process with an annual renewal
  request

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Funding Models Review

• Washington
• Non-shelter Based Agencies
• Competitive proposal process every three years
• Specific emphasis on underserved victims of
  family violence
• If a new agency is awarded funds, then all
  existing agencies in that county need to
  negotiate allocation amounts among themselves

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Funding Models Review

• Texas
• Population based formula based on the states
  total population on a regional level
• Agencies must provide specific core standards
• Competitive RFP application process every two
  years
• Allocate special funds
• Special non-residential programs to meet the
  needs of U/U populations
• Support primary prevention, legal support, and
  economic stability

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Funding Models Review

• New York
• Range of funding models based on type of
  residential program
• Non-residential
• Residential
• Transitional Housing
• Annual Application Process
• Funding allocated through Federal, State, and
  Private Revenue

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Funding Models Review

• New York
• Funding Allocation
• Federal Revenue
• FVPSA annually provides for general operating
  expenses, health and safety improvements and/or
  program enhancement
• State Revenue
• Daily rate (per diem) of reimbursement for
  approved residential program
• Through public assistance funding streams
• If a resident is not eligible for public
  assistance reimbursement, Title XX (i.e., block
  grants to states for social services) funds may
  be available

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Funding Models Review

• New York
• Funding Allocation
• Private Revenue
• United Way, private donations, interest income,
  and miscellaneous grants
• Counties without a residential DV program are
  required to provide services with adjacent county
  DV providers

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Research and Literature Review Summary

• BWSP is meeting the basic needs of many of
  Californias domestic violence victims through
  core service standards
• BWSP shelters provide services to diverse
  populations in urban and non-urban geographic
  regions
• Progress in increasing access to shelter-based DV
  services through the implementation of
  cultural/linguistic competency as a core service
  standard

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Domestic Violence ProgramGrantee Survey Results,
2008
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Number of Agencies Responding to Survey
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2. Position of Survey Respondent
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3. Domestic Violence Services Bay Area Region
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3. Domestic Violence Services Central Region
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3. Domestic Violence Services Los Angeles Region
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3. Domestic Violence Services Northern Region
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3. Domestic Violence Services Southern Region
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4. Type of Geographic Area Served
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5. Populations Served
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6. Genders Served

• 46 agencies reported serving men
  (in addition to women)
• 44 of those 46 agencies (96) also receive
  federal funding via OES, which requires services
  to men

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7-12. Capacity Measures
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7a. Number of Paid FTE Staff,
2006-07
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7b. Number of Volunteer Staff,
2006-07
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8. Number of Current Emergency Shelter Beds
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Number of Emergency Shelter Bed-Nights Provided,
2006-07
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10-11. Transitional Housing (TH) Capacity

• Current number of transitional housing beds
• Nearly ½ of responding agencies (49, n35)
  reported no transitional housing
  beds
• 11 reported 2-14 TH beds
• 24 reported 18-51 TH beds
• 15 reported 65-137 beds
• Number of transitional housing bed-nights
  provided in 2006-07
• Most agencies (52, n37) reported no TH
  bed-nights
• 11 reported 142-2190 TH bed-nights
• 14 reported 3017-7620
• 13 reported 9360-17,338
• 10 reported 19,345-36,208 TH bed-nights

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12a. Number of Crisis Calls, 2005-06
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12b. Number of Crisis Calls, 2006-07
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13a, b, c, f, g.Possible Funding Factors
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13d, e, h.Possible Funding Factors(Continued)
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14. Funding Required to
Provide DV Services, 2006-07
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15. Current U/U TAT Sustainability
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16. U/U Priority Population Preferences
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17. Assistance for Locally Identified U/U
Populations
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BWSP Grantee Survey

• Method
• Open ended question
• Please contribute any additional information
  about service gaps or resource needs for domestic
  violence services that you feel should be
  addressed in California?

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BWSP Grantee Survey

• Funding Allocation
• Staff Directed
• Fiscal resources for staff retention
• Funding Formula Recommendations/Suggestions
• By Geographic and/or Population Size
• Allocation of funds according to geographic and
  population size
• Allocation to rural areas
• All areas should be served by DV agency
• Additional funding for agencies serving more than
  one county

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BWSP Grantee Survey

• Funding Allocation
• Funding Formula Recommendations/Suggestions
• By Service Need
• Allocate funds based on individual needs and
  service provision
• Allocate funds for prevention
• Funding Based
• Equal allocation as the base for all counties
• Funding should remain stable

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BWSP Grantee Survey

• Funding Allocation
• Funding of Service Directed Activities
  Recommendations/Suggestions
• Service Need Provision
• Comprehensive, measurable service for women and
  children
• Primary prevention at middles schools and
  community groups

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BWSP Grantee Survey

• Additional Funding Request
• Shelter Related
• Client housing and utilities
• Program Service Delivery Related
• Teen services, substance abuse, PTSD
• Agency Capacity Building Related
• Therapist training and paralegal training
  services
• Fiscal support for client job trainings (IT)

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BWSP Grantee Survey

• Client Directed Service Needs
• Ethnic/Cultural Population Specific
• Growing Hispanic community
• Culturally appropriate services
• Immigrants
• Rural community resources
• Disabled, Substance Abuse and Mental Health
  Specific
• Challenge in serving these populations
• Other Emerging Populations
• Incarcerated women
• Shelter for male victims and teens

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BWSP Grantee Survey

• Client Directed Service Needs
• Types of Services Needed
• Early intervention and outreach
• Economic development strategies
• More confidential shelters
• Rural client referral services
• Criminal/civil legal support
• Pro bono legal services
• Affordable housing
• Transportation for rural clients

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BWSP Grantee Survey

• Client Directed Service Needs
• Program Service Needs Specific to Clients
• Limited options for single women
• More basic, essential service
• Address underlying causes of DV
• Expand shelter programs to accept more victims

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BWSP Grantee Survey

• Programmatic Service Needs
• Language/Cultural Competency Needs
• Provision of translation services
• Fund all agencies to use Language Line
• Staff Maintenance
• Retention of qualified staff

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BWSP Grantee Survey

• Programmatic Service Needs
• Outreach Services
• Specific staff funding to conduct outreach
• Capacity Building
• Develop to serve U/U populations
• Share local resources
• Implementation of prevention services

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BWSP Grantee Survey

• Collaboration
• Rural Agencies
• Build to leverage services and funds
• Legal Collaboration
• Benefit of creating relationships with local law
  enforcement and courts
• True Collaborative Efforts Formed
• Collaborate with neighboring counties
• Consolidate multiple DV programs within counties
• Mandatory collaboration between all agencies to
  enhance victim services

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BWSP Grantee Survey

• U/U TAT Project
• Redirect Funding
• To support agencies to increase capacity for
  locally identified U/U populations
• Favorable Support
• Have enhanced agencys ability to fill in gaps in
  services
• Would like continued support and trainings
• Follow-up and helpful tools to provide outreach
• Adverse Opposition
• Not particularly relevant to regional client
  needs
• Trainings take away from serving clients

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BWSP Grantee Survey

• DVP TA/Training Requests
• Program Service Implementation
• Client Directed
• Outreach to specific communities (e.g., Latino
  women, LBGTQ, alcohol and drug abuse)
• Administrative Need to Serve Clients
• Feedback on Cultural Competency policy and
  implementation plan
• Prevention/Intervention
• Prevention and community education
• Intervention strategies that are evidence-based
• Outreach to youth/children who may become future
  victims or batters

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BWSP Grantee Survey

• DVP TA/Training Requests
• Staff Development
• 40 hour training and material assistance
• How to conduct effective and productive outreach
• Client communication and interaction skills
  training
• Case management
• ? Personnel management
• Staff training in both emergency and transitional
  housing

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BWSP Grantee Survey

• DVP TA/Training Requests
• Agency Support
• History of Battered Womens Justice Movement
• Sensitivity trainings for remote, rural agency
  service needs
• Capacity Building
• Alliance building/collaborative approaches
• Create long-term economic development strategies
• Organizational structure best practices
• Board development

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BWSP Grantee Survey

• DVP TA/Training Requests
• Agency Support
• Budget, Data Collection, Information Technology
• Provide TA with completing workplan, progress
  reports, and data reports
• Fiscal management and accounting procedures
• Best strategies to capture and record data
• Storage of client files and statistical
  information
• Database developed to be used by all grantees
• Software training
• Resources Requested
• Bilingual brochures for LGBTQ clients
• List best practices on SafeNetwork website
• Inexpensive tracking software suggestions

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Research, Data, and Literature Review Summary

• The intent of this current examination of BWSP
  history, domestic violence research, BWSP grantee
  survey analysis, funding models from other
  states, along with a survey of currently funded
  domestic violence service providers, will inform
  funding priorities for DVP over the next five to
  ten years

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Discussion of Survey Findings
and Recommendations to CDPH
DVAC Meeting Webcast
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Open Discussion/Public Comment
DVAC Meeting Webcast
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Closing CommentsAdjournment
DVAC Meeting Webcast