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Title: The Duluth model - Minesota


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A Coordinated Community Response to Domestic
Violence
Duluth Minnesota Elsa Chiu HKCSS
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The Duluth Model Background
  • 1970s
  • First shelter opened in the States
  • Advocacy groups, the press, lawmakers,
    researchers, academia and the public, leader in
    different disciplines
  • recognized the need to develop and implement new
    policies and protocols to protect victims

Background
3
The Duluth Model Background
  • 1978
  • A domestic abuse case Cindy Landfried was
    battered for 3 yrs, finally she shot and kill her
    husband.
  • propose a proactive domestic assault intervention
    project
  • Duluth as the site for an experimental project
  • introduce multiple inter-agency agreements to
    improve the communitys ability to hold offenders
    accountable for their violence.

Background
4
The Duluth Model Background
  • March 2, 1981
  • The priority is always the victims safety.
  • Launch Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP)
  • Adopt policies and procedures to coordinate
    interventions
  • Use legal sanctions, rehabilitation programs and
    incarceration when necessary

Background
5
Critical Success Factors
  • Community consensus
  • Resource support
  • Trust and support
  • Autonomous, non-profit agency and small
    coordinating staff (interest free, neutral
    position)
  • Small community

Critical Success Factors
6
The Duluth Model
A comprehensive community-based project widely
recognized as a model in confronting domestic
assault
  • A criminal justice intervention project in
    domestic violence cases.
  • A system of
  • Networks
  • Agreements
  • processes
  • applied principles
  • created by local shelters movement, criminal
    justice agencies and human services programs.

Background
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Aims Advocate for collective interest of women,
instead of individual case to case
  • To increase victim safety
  • To increase accountability of the perpetrators
  • To break the climate of tolerance to domestic
    violence

Aims
8
The five core principles of intervention
  • Clear and specific goals provided a consistent
    stance
  • burden of confronting abusers -- the community,
    not the victim
  • individual practitioners -- cooperative, guided
    by training, job descriptions and standardized
    practices
  • responsive to the totality of harm
  • Priority -- Protection of the victim
  • basic understanding of and a commitment to
    accountability to the victim

Principles
9
8 Essential Activities
  • Building a Coordinated Community Response
    composes of
  • community organizing and advocacy
  • Building coherent philosophical approach
  • (Focus on victim safety)
  • Developing best practice policies and protocols
  • Reducing fragmentation
  • Building monitoring and tracking system
  • Ensuring a supportive community infrastructure
  • Intervening abusers directly
  • Undoing harm to the victims
  • Evaluating the outcome (the victims standpoint)

Activities
10
DAIP Organizing Process
  • Talk
  • Watch
  • Read
  • Work in small group
  • Propose changes
  • Convince policy makers
  • Test new ideas make adjustments
  • Organize training
  • Monitor compliance
  • Document Impact

Agency audit
Implementation
Evaluation
Organizing Process
11
The Duluth Model (2003)
  • Minnesota Program Development, Inc.
  • Domestic Abuse Intervention Project
  • (Coordinate the Community Response)
  • Mens Non-violence Education Class /
    CrossRoads Program
  • Domestic Abuse Information Network (DAIN)
  • Child Visitation Centre
  • National Training Project

Content
12
Medical
Law enforcement
Judiciary
Com. organizations
Judiciary
Com. organizations
Pence (1996). Coordinated Community Response to
Domestic Assault Cases A Guide for Policy
Development. MN Minnesota Program Development,
Inc.
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Feedback
People in system
  • DAIP Staff Counselor group facilitators
  • 911 communication centre
  • The Police
  • The prosecutors / probation officers
  • Public health nurse

Feedback
14
Feedback
  • Many people think its wrong for a woman to bring
    her partner to court for abuse. Its NOT Court
    dont ruin relationships, violence does. (MIKE)
  • When I was arrested, I was mad at
    everyone..These classes really helped me. I can
    see now what I was doing and I think I can deal
    with my problem a lot different now. (Dave)

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Achievement
  • comprehensive community-based system intervention
  • strengthened criminal justice response
  • strong pro-arrest policy
  • consistent sentencing of perpetrators
  • Good victim advocacy and support
  • Mandatory attendance
  • Strong penalties.

Achievement
16
Achievement international recognition on
pioneering efforts
  • To alter public policy
  • To protect victims of domestic abuse
  • To offer rehabilitation opportunities for
    offenders

Achievement
17
Issue of concerns
  • Institutional change
  • any efforts changing the socio-cultural
    institution?
  • changing the perpetrators themselves? Criminal
    Justice approach? public health approach?
  • community prevention strategies?
  • influence of the media?
  • teenage?

Issue of concern
18
Issue of concerns
  • Other concerned professions
  • The medical practitioners ?
  • The Churches ?
  • The schools ?

Issue of concern
19
Issue of concerns
  • Monitoring
  • Professional compliance
  • Victim safety
  • Support to batterers

Issue of concern
20
Is it necessary to further strengthen the system
in responding to domestic violence in Hong Kong?
HOW?
Who?
What?
when?
Where?
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Websites
  • Victim Support, SWD (www.info.gov.hk/swd/vs)
  • E-resources, HKCSS (www.hkcss.org.hk/fs/er)
  • Minnesota Program Development Inc.
    (www.duluth-model.org)
  • Praxis International (www.praxisinternatinal.org)
  • Minnesota Center Against Violence Abuse
    (www.mincava.umn.edu/).
  • The Battered Women's Justice Project
    (www.bwjp.org)

Websites
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