Publications - Gender-Based Violence

Background: This 1997 report gathers preliminary data for the Colorado Model Office Project (Grant No. 90-FF-0027, funded by the Office of Child Support Enforcement) about client experiences with good cause via interviews and a review of applications. The goal of the Model Office Project was to demonstrate the effectiveness of various innovations in child support case Read More

This report is part of an ongoing evaluation of the Stand Up Colorado social change initiative. Stand Up Colorado is a campaign aimed at preventing relationship violence (RV). The overall evaluation of the campaign will include both process and outcome components. This report focuses on the baseline survey that was conducted as part of the Read More

The study described in this report is Phase II of an ongoing effort to document community based domestic violence (DV) advocacy services and measure outcomes. In October 2016, the Domestic Violence Program (DVP) convened a group of stakeholders to create and/or identify (1) an assessment tool to help DV advocates identify clients’ needs at intake and (2) a client Read More

Authors & Acknowledgement Statement This report was prepared by National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (Anne Menard and Cris Sullivan, Ph.D., Michigan State University), and Center for Policy Research (Jessica Pearson, Ph.D. and Echo Rivera, Ph.D.). The core project team also included Madeline Solan, MMP, and Stephanie Acker Housman, MPA, ASPE and Marylouise Kelley, Ph.D. Read More

Authors & Acknowledgement Statement This report was prepared by National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (Anne Menard and Cris Sullivan, Ph.D., Michigan State University), and Center for Policy Research (Jessica Pearson, Ph.D. and Echo Rivera, Ph.D.). The core project team also included Madeline Solan, MMP, and Stephanie Acker Housman, MPA, ASPE and Marylouise Kelley, Ph.D. Read More

Background The Colorado Domestic Violence Program (DVP) contracted with the Center for Policy Research (CPR) to evaluate the self-sufficiency matrix (SSM) in Colorado’s DVP programs. Specifically, CPR sought to determine whether the SSM showed promise as a tool used for case management and for evaluating domestic violence (DV) services. Method This report details Phase I Read More

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious and widespread form of gender-based violence that disproportionately affects women. It is well established that IPV victimization contributes to depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and that many partner-abusive men continue to perpetuate abuse even after their relationship with the victim ends. In addition, when men harm their Read More

There are several reasons that programs serving fathers should be concerned with intimate partner violence (IPV). The widespread nature of the problem makes it a logical topic for fatherhood programs to cover when dealing with parental conflict. Evidence suggests that men who have engaged in IPV may have significant parenting difficulties that need to be addressed and fatherhood programs offer a forum Read More

OCSE has funded some demonstration and evaluation projects and grants in the area of parenting, and some states use funding available through the State Access and Visitation (AV) Program to support parenting time services for unmarried parents in the child support program. However, only a handful of jurisdictions have mechanisms to incorporate parenting time agreements into initial child Read More

The Massachusetts Domestic Violence and Welfare Reform project involved a collaboration between the state public assistance agency, the Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA), and the state child support agency, the Department of Revenue (DOR). The goals of the project were to: Introduce and evaluate three different methods of identifying domestic violence in public assistance agencies; Determine how to Read More