Freedom From Domestic Abuse

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Freedom From Domestic Abuse
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Developments and Drivers

• Increase in number, scope and complexity of
  referrals
• Increased focus on risk and harm reduction
• Introduction of MARAC
• Domestic violence and sexual violence agendas
  linked
• Implementation of national occupation standards
  for domestic violence services
• Commissioning and procurement

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RISE- Refuge, Information, Support, Education

• Consultation- staff/stakeholders/service users
• Rebrand
• Staff restructure
• Service redesign

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• Raising Important Questions

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• Sexual violence
• Social exclusion
• Bullying
• Healthy
• relationships
• Womens issues

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Living Our Values
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• Respect
• Independence
• Safety
• Equality

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Service Model
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RISE service model
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2008- 1,917 referrals

• Floating support teams in Adur, North Sussex and
  Brighton and Hove
• CYPs team (including young men up to 25)
• Refuge in Brighton and North Sussex
• Specialised refuge provision (BH)
• IDVAs- including GBT and health IDVA
• Community outreach teams
• Counsellors and therapeutic work
• Training and preventative education

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Crisis Support service

• Helpline, assessment, signpost and referral
• Specialist local refuge and access to national
  network of refuges
• Resettlement support
• Independent Domestic Violence Advisory Service,
  MARAC and court support
• Care pathway

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Community outreach and therapeutic services

• Counselling
• Therapeutic group work
• Healthy relationships
• Service user involvement
• Peer to peer mentoring
• Community support networks
• Community development

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I Matter Too Children and Young peoples
services

• Mentoring
• Play therapy
• Parenting
• Childcare
• Treehouse

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Training, consultancy and education

• Bespoke corporate training
• Consultancy
• Strategic partnerships
• Campaigning
• Preventative education programme
• Volunteer training programme
• Media
• Research
• Policy and development

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Tiers of intervention
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• MARAC/MAPPA arrangements
• Police intervention arrest, investigate, charge
  
• perpetrator
• Legal protection SDVC/criminal and family
  courts
• Child /adult protection intervention
• Refuge / emergency accommodation

Tiers of Violence Intervention

• MARAC MAPPA
• Housing options Refuge, Homelessness, transfer
  
• Sanctuary project
• Sexual Assault and rape crisis service
• Police intervention arrest, investigate, charge
  / perpetrator Specialist DV Court/criminal
  court.
• Legal advice / protection (Family law / Civil
  Court
• injunction immigration)
• Child Adult Protection assessment services
• Probation perpetrator programmes / supervision,
  
• Voluntary Perpetrator Programmes
• Drug Alcohol services. Counselling
• psychology services, Mental Health service
• Forced Marriage, FGM, Prostitution

Risk Assessment

• Information about services / options
• Advocacy Service information, safety
• planning, support
• Police response to 999 calls
• Assessment of needs Identified within
• universal services health, education,
• early years, housing management
• Support advice from Specialist DV
• voluntary sector

• Universal services promote awareness
• Primary prevention campaigns / media
• Public Information directories/ websites etc
• Health screening / identification
• Education PSHE
• Childrens services identification
• DV forums, media awareness and training etc
• Housing services tenancy agreements

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Citywide, co-ordinated community response

• Expertise of the CDRP, Senior Officers Group and
  DV Forum
• Ensures specialist DV services (IDVAs focused on
  general, LGBT high risk survivors, helpline,
  outreach, refuge, children young people)
• Living without Violence Project and IDAPP both
  with Womens Safety Workers
• MARAC to ensure joined up approach
• Promoting benefits (cost, statutory targets,
  safety) for all

Desired Outcome A sustainable long term change in
strategy, policy, practice across Brighton
Hove for the everyday lives of adult and child
survivors
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Single point of access
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• CALL RISE HELPLINE
• Monday- Thursday 9.30-4.30
• Friday 9.30-4pm
• Domestic Abuse. Domestic Abuse. Domestic
  Abuse
• Dont expect it. Dont accept it. Dont
  Ignore it