Domestic Violence Young People Outreach

The first guest speaker to present was Doreen Lesane, an Advocate against Domestic Violence. She gave a general power point presentation on what domestic violence is and how to properly assist a client in that predicament. She goes on to explain that domestic abuse and domestic violence are consider two different forms under the law. The law does not recognize domestic abuse as a criminal act and is categorize as nonphysical form of abuse. As a social worker our goals is not to get the client to flea an abuse relationship but to provided serveries to better Accommodate client by helping them create safety nets. Prof. Elaine Reid makes a startling claim, woman are more likely to be murder when they are trying to leave an abuse spouse, and this is also refer as separation violence. Nevertheless it is important not to judge these individual and to handle the case in a professional matter. As social workers it is essential that we safety guide our client with their approval, out of domestic situation by providing resource, support, understanding and professional services.

I’m a senior majoring in Applied Psychology at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) graduating this May. I am writing to express my interest of working as a Fill-In Domestic Violence Shelter Worker. I’m prusing a masters in clinical psychology counsling at Roosevelt University in the fall. The major of Applied Psychology has given me many hands-on experiences, which corresponded to this position. I took clinical interviewing, which gave me the experience of conducting intake interviews with volunteer participants. This course helped to enhance my skills such as paraphrasing, showing empathy, reflecting feelings, and active listening.

The immense sense of guilt that was imposed on me, translated back into my experiences during practicum in college. I was able to empathize with individuals I worked with and understand the limitations of parents seeking help, due to the potential fear of victim blaming. During my final year of practicum, I worked at The Roy McMurtry Youth Centre with young males who were incarcerated. Through attending multi-disciplinary team meetings, the disturbing issue of youth being exposed to childhood abuse seemed to be an ongoing pattern. The reoccurring theme entailed that childhood abuse and exposure to violence impacted the child’s emotional and psychological well-being, resulting in deviant lifestyles. Throughout my academic career, I’ve adopted an anti-oppressive view working alongside vulnerable communities that are lacking the resources and equality based on status within society. After reviewing literature around domestic violence and using my own personal encounters, it’s apparent that there is more emphasis on the victim. There is a gap between perpetrators and intervention strategies to reduce the risks of violence continuing. Specifically, influencing my desires to further research into the psychological aspects as to why women stay in abusive

NPOs are entities almost the same as for-profit organizations save for two distinct features of NPOs (Nolan, 2013). First, it is prohibited to distribute its profits to the public. The second one is that NPOs do not have shareholders; therefore, no one owns the entity. What it includes are the trustees who merely administer the organization and oversee its operations.

Mentoring refers to a relationship whereby, an experienced person gives guidance, advice, and support to the less experienced. The Stop the Violence Mentoring Program is one that seeks help young people and to show them a more excellent way.

A range of UK agencies audited their domestic violence contacts that day. Findings indicated a disproportionate amount of violence faced by women and perpetrated by men. 86% of calls to police that day involved female victims attacked by male partners/ex-partners, 8% male victims attacked by female partners/ex-partners, 2% female victims attacked by female partners/ex-partners, and 7% male victims attacked by male partners/ex-partners. 90% of contacts made with victim support in England involving domestic violence were from women, and 100% in Wales. Further evidence of considerable disparities in male and female abusive behaviour comes from a study of cases sent for prosecution under the Protection from Harassment Act (Harris 2000). 94% of

The major clients of domestic violence service are adults, as Table 1 displays. Children are not the important subjects in domestic violence service, even though people increasingly recognize that children are vulnerable when they live with domestic violence (Hester, 2011). Ensuring the safety of children is the central task of the child protection approach. In recent decades, more child protection workers view domestic violence as a determinant risk for protecting children (Douglas and Walsh, 2010; Hester, 2011).

Scared to say anything, they hide their pain; these are victims of domestic violence. Domestic violence, such heavy words, and when you hear these words what do you think of? When most people think about domestic violence, they think the man is the perpetrator, that assumption is normal. Society has portrayed domestic violence as the majority victims being women. People tend to forget that men can be victims too. Society has portrayed them as macho men who don’t cry and can't be hurt. Men should be recognized as victims just as much as women. Violence is violence, no matter the gender of the victim, and not recognizing those victims makes it hard for them to speak up.

The innovate social work program I selected for the term paper is Futures Without Violence. The program’s mission is to end violence against women and children around the world. I selected this topic for the reason that I would like to work with this population. Many women of all age groups can experience many forms of violence and many need an advocate to give them a voice. I can also educate women and teach them about using their resources. Violence against women not only effects victims but also the witnesses and bystanders.

A phone interview was conducted prior to the program, then half of the families included received a program book while the other half did not, and finally, another phone interview was completed nine months after the initial phone call (p. 998). This program was effective for teens who had higher exposure to domestic violence, but those who had low exposure to intimate partner violence showed a neutral response (Foshee et al., 2015, p. 1005). The program was effective for a select group, but the other was seemingly left out, which proves to be common in many other programs as well. This is why these improvements to Dove, Inc. will be more efficient in reaching all groups of intimate partner violence victims. Bowers et al. (2016) state that

It is known that women who are in love are going to do whatever it takes to maintain a relationship with their loved ones. Love is the only way to overcome any obstacles they face along the road. Unfortunately, after a while, this love that once existed goes away and is replaced by bruises and hurtful words. A relationship that was once a fairytale story and something beautiful that you would never be able to imagine is affected by an epidemic that is known as domestic abuse.

How many times can one sit back and think about the amount of times that he or she has been made aware of domestic violence? Not saying, that everyone has dealt with some type of intimate partner violence, but it is all extremely common in our world today. It is commonly depicted in popular culture, movies, television shows, and in many other forms. In the United States, especially, there have been many campaigns against domestic violence, but unfortunately this is not something that is likely to disappear. Many researchers attribute intimate partner violence to gaining some type of power. Violent behaviors within relationship may be used to intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure,

In today’s society, victims of domestic violence and sexual assault often experience some form of victim blaming. Victim blaming occurs when society partially condemns the victim for what has happened to them. This tendency to assign criminal responsibility to the victim occurs in all segments of our society regardless of race, gender, social class, or occupation (Hamilton, 1979). Currently, rape is a big issue throughout society. The word rape is defined as sex without consent. The FBI data estimates that 683, 000 women are raped each year. Additionally, 4 million women a year are physically assaulted by their partners (). Rape is about power and dominance, not sex. The cultural message in America is “don’t get raped” as opposed to “don’t

In looking to start an educational program for intimate partner or domestic violence, I would want to first want to establish a program that people would look to seek out and feel safe with. According to our reading, only 10% of domestic violence incidences are reported however there have been more then 1 million women who have sought medical treatment for injuries relating to domestic violence (Lynch, 2014). I think that through education and advertisement of the program to victims involved in these incidences, they would be more knowledgeable that there is a program that is available to them were they can seek help and counseling in a safe environment.

It is also imperative to assign domestic violence offenders to treatment intensity levels at intake and the decision-making processes regarding treatment outcomes. What we want from child abuse counselling is the fact that we want to stop the pattern of abuse going from generation to generation because the parents that are abusive now are mostly likely to have been abused while they were young. So the importance of the counselling is to break the cycle and lead to a future generation that condemns child abuse and sees it as a detriment to the child and also the society at large. No one is immune to domestic violence occurs in all races, ages, religions, culture, socioeconomic and sexual orientation. Although it does impact the society at large, the main thing is that the experience of domestic violence on children could be traumatic and terrifyingly affect the rest of their lives. This by itself is sad because those kids didn’t chose to be abused but it was rather inflicted upon them and now they will have to carry the repercussion that come with