Gold Coast Domestic Violence Integrated Response GCDVIR

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Gold Coast Domestic Violence Integrated Response
GCDVIR
Gold Coast Domestic Violence Prevention Centre Inc
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What is the GCDVIR ?

• Operating on the Gold Coast since 1996
• Is a GC DV Prevention Centre initiative focussed
  on agencies working together to provide
  interventions which are coordinated, appropriate
  and consistent within a justice reform model
• The GCDVIR responds by having
• A shared framework and understanding of domestic
  violence
• A key focus on risk assessment , and a proactive
  response to risk
• Interagency information exchange, monitoring and
  tracking

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• Members of the GCDVIR
• Gold Coast Domestic Violence Prevention Centre
  Inc
• Centacare
• Macleod Accommodation Support Service (MASS)
  Inc
• Majella House
• Southport Court
• Gold Coast Hospital
• Queensland Police Service
• Department of Corrective Services
• Department of Communities
• Department of Child Safety
• Legal Aid Queensland
• Department of Housing

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Gold Coast Domestic Violence Prevention Centre Inc

• Gold Coast Domestic Violence Prevention Centre
  Inc
• An integral member of the GCDVIR
• Director
• High Risk Intervention Program ( IR Manager)
• Domestic Violence FaxBack Program ( partnership
  with Queensland Police Service )
• Domestic Violence Court Assistance Program
• Mens Domestic Violence Intervention and
  Education Program
• ( partnership with Department of Corrective
  Services )
• Crisis Response and Counselling Team
• Childrens Counsellor
• Education and Training
• Community Awareness

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• Aims of the GCDVIR
• To enhance safety for the victim and her children
• Reduce secondary victimisation
• To hold Perpetrators of domestic violence
  systemically accountable for their behaviour
• Decrease the incidence of domestic violence
  through the
• enhancement and monitoring of interagency
  cooperation and collaboration

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How it Works

• Monthly meeting of the Coordinating Committee
• Annual Planning Day setting priorities for the
  year ahead
• Statements of Principles of Cooperation between
  partners
• High Risk Interventions proactive responses
• Cooperative Case Management and Confidential
  Information Sharing
• Systems Review and Advocacy
• Interagency Training
• Resource Development

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GCDVIR Planning Day 2008 The GCDVIR conducts
an annual planning day, setting achievable
priorities for the year ahead.
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• GCDVIR Priorities for 2008
• High Risk DV Case Management Process be developed
  by a Sub Committee of GCDVIR
• Specialist DV Court for the Gold Coast Region at
  Southport Court
• Assisting the Gold Coast Regions Department of
  Child Safety staff to facilitate a mandated
  attendance for male perpetrators of DV to a Mens
  DV Education and Intervention Program.

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Gold Coast Domestic Violence Prevention Centre Inc

• In 2006-2007 GCDVPC had
• 13,425 Contacts with women
• 5,288 Contacts with children
• 1,788 Contacts with men
• In Southport Court the busiest in the State there
  were
• 5,296 new applications, protection orders,
  temporary orders, and applications to vary
• QPS DV Callouts January December 2007
• 1,951 DV callouts by Police
• The High Risk Intervention Program
• 49 High Risk Situations where women and their
  children were at risk of homicide in the first 2
  months of 2008

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• GCDVPC Inc Training and Education In 2006-2007
• 87 training sessions to 2001 participants
• 108 education sessions were provided to 5482
• participants
• 2987 people accessed Information and Resources
• 117,930 people accessed the GCDVPC Inc
• website
• www.domesticviolence.com.au

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• Therapeutic Jurisprudence
• Chief Justice Marshall Irwin on his visit to the
  Gold Coast in May 2007 that the
• concept and establishment of a Specialist Court
  in Queensland is in the best
• interests of the entire community.
• Chief Justice Irwin stated
• The fact is that the evaluation of the
  specialist court programs to which reference has
  been
• made have found positive outcomes overall to
  victims, including satisfaction with the process
• and reduced acts of domestic and family violence
  .
• Integrated case management
• Collaboration and cooperation by services to
  receive referrals, case management
• on both entry and exit , pro investigation and
  pro prosecution of DV matters and bail
• determination , bail conditions and protection
  orders that focus on the safety of
• victims and their children.

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