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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™
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.
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
Ohio IPV Collabor
ative
Safe and Together Training
Certified Trainers
Community TAPost-
Training Support
Planning Group
Evaluation
Judicial Trainings
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