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Child Support Policies and Domestic Violence: A Preliminary Look at Client Experiences with Good Cause Exemptions to Child Support Cooperation Requirements
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
Preventing Relationship Violence Through Community Change: Results from a Baseline Survey on Coloradans’ Readiness to Address Relationship Violence as a Community
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
Issue(s): Gender-Based Violence
Focus Area(s): Domestic Violence Program Innovations, Intimate Partner Violence
Keyword(s): attitudes, baseline survey, color blind, domestic violence, Intimate Partner Violence, racism, sexism, social change, stand up colorado
Documenting Domestic Violence Services, Client Needs, and Client Outcomes The Final Report of the Colorado Tool Development Project
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
Issue(s): Gender-Based Violence
Focus Area(s): Domestic Violence Program Innovations, Intimate Partner Violence
Keyword(s): domestic violence, Intimate Partner Violence
A Longitudinal Examination of Mothers’ Depression and PTSD Symptoms as Impacted by Partner-Abusive Men’s Harm to Their Children.
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
Fatherhood Programs and Intimate Partner Violence Research for the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network
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
Issue(s): Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships
Focus Area(s): Fatherhood Programs, Intimate Partner Violence
Keyword(s): fatherhood, Intimate Partner Violence
Child Support Program and Parenting Time Orders: Research, Practice, and Partnership Project – Roundtable on Domestic Violence
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
Issue(s): Father Engagement & Healthy Relationships, Gender-Based Violence
Focus Area(s): Domestic Violence Program Innovations, Intimate Partner Violence, Parenting Time & Co-Parenting
Massachusetts Domestic Violence and Welfare Reform: An Empirical Study
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
Issue(s): Child Support, Gender-Based Violence
Focus Area(s): Family-Centered Interventions, Intimate Partner Violence
Keyword(s): community-based services, Department of Transitional Assistance, public assistance requirements