Empowering Families to face Domestic Violence

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Empowering Families to face Domestic Violence

• Lucia Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Williams

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The goal of this presentation is to report
LAPREV's Domestic Violence Experience in the city
of São Carlos, Brazil
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Departmentof Psychology

• Since 1998

www.ufscar.br/laprev
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LAPREV

• Research
• Teaching
• Consultation
• Intervention
• Prevention
• Womens Police Station/ Health-School Unit
• Child Protection Agency Office
• Gravelina Lemes Shelter

São Carlos
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Why did we do it?

• Professional and Personal Reason
• - Violence against women is a serious public
  health concern in the world and particularly in
  Brazil
• 1997-2005

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What do we look for?

• A health intervention approach based in gender
  equality to teach women to gain control over
  their lives and free themselves from violence
  symptoms
• Teach men conflict resolution skills based in
  Human Rights
• Prevent children from becoming aggressive or
  overly passive

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How did we do it?

• It all started in 1998 at the local Women's
  Police Station
• No other services
• for supporting
• such women
• then

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Implementation Process first phase (1998)

• Partnership with the municipality of São Carlos
  (Secretary of Citizenship and Social Assistance)
• Bus passes (most women are poor, Afro-Brazilian
  women are over-represented), many migrant women
  from Brazil's Northern States
• 20 of the São Carlos population is
  Afro-Brazilian
• Initial hotel support for women in danger

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Implementation phase 2 (2001)

• Inauguration of Gravelina T. Lemes shelter for
  women at risk of fatal violence and children
• How it was possible Partnership advocacy
• Reason for the shelter name Lessons from
  Gravelina

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Phase 3 Health-School Unit (USE) - 2006
Insertion of work with women men in the
Health System Opportunity for Inter-
disciplinary work
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USE has ideal research, intervention and
teaching facilities
It has a home replica lab!
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Observation room adjacent the house
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Intervention with children

• Still at LAPREV's office at CPS agency
• I International Meeting on Child Sexual Abuse
  (USE partnership with city's Health Department,
  ISPCAN others), 2007
• 600 professionals for 3 days
• Book in press as a result

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Example of one Intervention Program Project
Parceria

• Project Parceria has 2 units
• 1) A Psychotherapeutic one (8 sessions) aimed at
  analyzing the impact that violence may have had
  in the participant's lives and empower them to
  change.
• 2) An Educational unit (8 sessions) to teach
  mothering skills

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What did we achieve? Results

• Over the years we have worked with about 800
  people, 60 at USE
• Good feedback from clients, students and the
  community
• Evidence Based Practice resulting in many
  publications www.ufscar.br/laprev
• Quality and quantitative dada
• First publication in a Brazilian journal re
  intervention with batterer (Padovani Williams,
  2002).

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Individual case study with batterer (Padovani
Williams, 2002)
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Group Intervention with Men (Cortez, Padovani
Williams, 2005)Conflict Tactic Scale Scores
over the months
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How did we sustain it?

• Community outreach from a Public University
• Partnership with the city 2 special mayors
• Research Grants
• Project Parceria
• Free booklets A life free of violence Raising
  your child in a Positive way

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Some of the lessons learned

• Prevention is the key
• Male intervention is a priority!
• Recent developments
• School which protects Ministry of Education
• Working with Adolescent parents
• Working with incarcerated women their children

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Thank you!!!