PowerPoint presentation from Applying a Perpetrator Pattern-Based Approach to Family Violence Cases in the Family Law Courts - David Mandel, CEO of Safe & Together Institute
Ensuring the Voice of the Child is Heard, and Child's Best Interests are Considered in Domestic Abuse Cases David Mandel, Executive Director, Safe & Together Institute
David Mandel, Executive Director, Safe & Together Institute
Perpetrator intervention program completion certificates are dangerous for adult and child survivors. How can a piece of paper be dangerous? David Mandel, Executive Director, Safe & Together Institute
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Activity Sheet
Focusing on the impact of domestic violence on children, in many ways, has been synonymous with a “failure to protect” approach to mothers who are domestic violence survivors. This approach can come with the cost of alienating adult survivors and their children from support and services, increasing danger from the perpetrator, and removing children unnecessarily. As strengths based work with families becomes more prevalent, the research on protective capacities of domestic violence survivors as parents becomes more important to supporting a shift in policy and practice-from “failure to protect” to domestic violence-informed. In this briefing, we will explore some of the research that demonstrates the protective capacities of adult survivors and their implications for policy and practice. David Mandel and Claire Wright