Strategies for ActionStrategies for Action

Preventing and Responding to Preventing and Responding to Violence and Abuse in Intimate and Violence and Abuse in Intimate and family relationshipsfamily relationships

Prevention StrategiesPrevention Strategies

Primary PreventionPrimary Prevention Target the general populationTarget the general population

Secondary PreventionSecondary Prevention Target groups at high risk for family Target groups at high risk for family

violence and abuseviolence and abuse Tertiary PreventionTertiary Prevention

target families who have experienced target families who have experienced abuseabuse

Primary PreventionPrimary Prevention Create new norms, public education, media Create new norms, public education, media

campaigns, focus on parent educationcampaigns, focus on parent education

Alternatives to corporal punishment?Alternatives to corporal punishment? Positive role modelPositive role model Set rules and consequencesSet rules and consequences Encourage and reward good behaviorEncourage and reward good behavior Create chartsCreate charts Give time outs Give time outs

Should corporal punishment be abolished?Should corporal punishment be abolished?

Secondary Prevention Secondary Prevention StrategiesStrategies

Do you think abuse is generational?Do you think abuse is generational?

Do you think the cycle can be broken? Do you think the cycle can be broken?

Tertiary PreventionTertiary Prevention National Domestic Violence HotlineNational Domestic Violence Hotline

http://www.ndvh.org/ Shelters or Safe HousesShelters or Safe Houses

Is there a difference?Is there a difference? Child Protective ServicesChild Protective Services

http://www.dshs.wa.gov/

Sheriff DepartmentSheriff Department

Weekend Assignment due Weekend Assignment due on Monday October 8thon Monday October 8th

Objective- You develop a strategy to prevent family Objective- You develop a strategy to prevent family violence and abuse. violence and abuse. Requirements:Requirements:

You must outline your program. Make sure you develop a program You must outline your program. Make sure you develop a program which is fiscally realistic and can be effectively managed. (You can which is fiscally realistic and can be effectively managed. (You can model your program after a pre-existing program but you must model your program after a pre-existing program but you must have some components which are unique to yours. have some components which are unique to yours.

Justification of why your program would prevent family violence Justification of why your program would prevent family violence and abuse (you “might” include some statistics or studies which and abuse (you “might” include some statistics or studies which would support this)would support this)

Which type of prevention strategy are you advocating? Which type of prevention strategy are you advocating? Primary, Primary, secondary or tertiary secondary or tertiary Yes you must prove it to me base on the Yes you must prove it to me base on the definition. definition.