Victim Contact in Abusive Partner Intervention: The Importance of Collaboration
Intimate partner violence causes harm to survivors in many ways: physically, sexually, mentally, emotionally, and economically. Survivors should define safety and healing from IPV. APIPs should collaborate with community-based advocates and survivors to understand and address identified needs. Systems of oppression that perpetuate discrimination and create barriers for marginalized survivors must be consistently and intentionally addressed to be genuinely survivor-centered.
In addition to the Center for Justice Innovation resources below, here are some external resources on this topic:
- Safety and Services: Women of Color Speak About their Communities (Boggess and Groblewski, 2011)
- Safe Consultations with Survivors of Violence Against Women and Girls (UN Women, 2022)
- Safety Planning Based on Lethality Assessment for Partners of Batterers in Intervention Programs (Campbell, 2008)
- Batterer’s Intervention: What Every Victim Advocate Needs to Know (Zegree, 2008)
- Webinar: Batterer Intervention Programs and Victim Safety (OVC TTAC, 2018)
- Meeting the Needs of African American Survivors within Battered Women’s Programs (Hampton & Jenkins, 2016)
- Battered Women’s Perceptions of Risk Versus Risk Factors and Instruments in Predicting Repeat Reassault (Heckert & Gondolf, 2004)
- Emerge Partner Contact Manual (Emerge Counseling and Education to Stop Domestic Violence)
- Standards For Treatment With Court Ordered Domestic Violence Offenders (Colorado Domestic Violence Offender Management Board, 2020)
- Why Do Victims Stay? (NCADV)
- Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Police Reporting for Partner Violence in the National Crime Victimization Survey and Survivor-Led Interpretation (Holliday et al., 2020)
- Defining Justice: Restorative and Retributive Justice Goals Among Intimate Partner Violence Survivors (Decker et al., 2020)