3. Outreach Services
(Crisis situation)
Importance of intervention with victims
of marital violence within 24 to 48 hours
Dangerousness Index, Barbara Hart
(1988), summarized by Rudolf Rausch (2002)
Hart, B., Safety for Women: Monitoring Batterers’ Programs. Harrisburg,
PA, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 1988.
4. Importance of intervention with victims of
marital violence within 24 to 48 hours
Crisis
Confusion Loss Imbalance
Normal reflex = a desire to regain balance
Back to square one (before the crisis)
Does not want to end relationship /
Avoids filing a complaint
Takes action / Resources
Breaks the cycle of violence
5. Our tools for providing service
in a crisis
Wheel of Power and Control
Cycle of Violence
Dangerousness Index
6.
7.
8. Dangerousness Index
This tool helps establish
reasonable doubt that the
safety of a woman and her
children is in jeopardy.
Source: Hart, B., Safety for Women: Monitoring Batterers’ Programs.
Harrisburg, PA, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 1988.
9. Dangerousness Index, Barbara Hart (1988)
1. Threat of murder or suicide: extreme danger
2. Fantasies of murder or suicide
3. Access to weapons
4. Obsession with one’s partner
5. Isolation of the aggressor and centralization of the
victim
6. Rage
7. Depression
8. Drugs and/or alcohol
9. History of violent crime
10. Access to the abused woman
11. Recent separation (Peter Jaffe)
10. N.B.: The absence of risk factors does
not guarantee safety. Certain factors are
serious on their own; the more risk
factors present, the higher the level of
danger.
11. Importance of the community’s
cooperation and partnership
Allows for better mobilization and makes it
possible to improve the safety of female
victims of marital violence and their
children.
12. CRISIS SITUATION INTERVENTION MODEL
Family violence victim in Kent County
RCMP Physicians Hospital ER
Mental Health
Centre
Professional offers the victim the crisis counselling services
of the KCPFV crisis intervenor
If the victim accepts the offer, the professional contacts the
crisis intervenor by pager or phone.
If the vicitm does not wish to receive services, the
professional gives her some promotional material.
The crisis intervenor (outreach worker) meets with the victim at the
KCPFV, at one of the four partner organizations, or at one of the nine satellite offices.
After crisis counselling, the victim is referred to
the long-term counsellor at the KCPFV or at another appropriate service.
If the victim refuses any form of follow-up, the
counsellor gives her some promotional material.
14. Why ASAP?
Safety Assessment:
Assess the possible risk to a victim’s safety
Safety Planning:
Determine what the victim intends to do to
increase her safety and reduce risk
15. Concerted Intervention
ASAP is designed to help co-ordinate
intervention with other organizations:
The police, the Crown, Correctional Services
It is based on tools to assess the risk of
violence from an intimate partner:
Spousal Assault Risk Assessment (SARA), a
set of guidelines used to assess the risk of
marital violence - Probation
Short questionnaire to assess risk in the case
of marital violence (B-SAFER) - RCMP
16. How to Incorporate ASAP?
(according to the roundtable)
Main objective
Increase the safety of victims of marital violence
Improve crisis situation services
Co-operate in order to serve the target population better
Confidentiality aspect?
Prevention Centre RCMP Probation
Assess risk and plan safety
Our partners
Discussion with the Acadian Peninsula
17. ASAP
Provincial
3 tools
Victims Aggressors criminal records
RCMP Probation
Victim Services (Court)
Same language, better co-operation
A new tool
18. Three-Year Work Plan
1. Research information on the SARA, B-SAFER,
and ASAP programs
2. Volunteer committee
3. Outreach Services statistics
4. Publicize the three different programs
5. Put the unified intervention model into practice
6. Evaluate the new model
7. Share the results
23. Dangerousness Index, Barbara Hart (1988)
Summarized by Rudolf Rausch (2002)
1. Threat of murder or suicide: extreme danger
2. Fantasies of murder or suicide
3. Access to weapons
4. Obsession with one’s partner
5. Isolation of the aggressor and centralization of the victim
6. Rage
7. Depression
8. Drugs and/or alcohol
9. History of violent crime
10. Access to the abused woman
11. Separation (Peter Jaffe)
N.B.: The absence of risk factors does not guarantee safety. Certain
factors are serious on their own; the more risk factors present, the
higher the level of danger.
Dangerousness Index
This tool helps establish reasonable doubt that the safety of a
woman and her children is in jeopardy.
