Domestic Violence and Child Protection: Partnerships and Collaboration

Potito, Christine; Day, Andrew; Carson, Ed; O’Leary, Patrick

doi:10.1080/03124070902964657

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“…The findings from this study affirm the importance of many elements of successful collaboration that are reflected in social work literature: strong leadership; shared vision; structures and processes to facilitate the creation and evolution of collaborative efforts; role clarity; defined goals; attention to member composition, relationship building, and team building; and achievement of interim successes (Bertram, 2008;Dunlop & Holosko, 2004;Ferguson, 2004;Fitch, 2009;Harbert, 1997;Jones, Crook, & Webb, 2007;Reilly, 2001;Slaght & Hamilton, 2005;Spath, Werrbach, & Pine, 2008;Urwin, 1998). The importance of trust, communication, shared vision, and adoption of values consistent with collaboration among stakeholders and facilitators is also reflected in the literature (Bayne- Smith, Mizrahi, & Garcia, 2008;Jones et al, 2007;Potito, Day, Carson, & O'Leary, 2009). Findings from this study are also consistent with other studies that found multiple factors that impede collaboration, such as conflicts in perspectives and priorities, staff turnover, barriers to sharing confidential information, and changes in systems and resources (Altshuler, 2003;Darlington, Feeney, & Rixon, 2005;Han, Carnochan, & Austin, 2007;Ryan, Tracy, Rebeck, Biegel, & Johnsen, 2001;Spath et al, 2008).…”

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Advancing Collaborative Practice Between Substance Abuse Treatment and Child Welfare Fields: What Helps and Hinders the Process?

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2010

Administration in Social Work

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This study explores factors that facilitate and impede the process of developing successful collaboration between child welfare, substance abuse treatment, and dependency courts based on in-depth qualitative interviews with professionals (N = 49) from five California counties. Findings describe specific preconditions, organizational changes, and operational factors in the development of successful collaboration. Study participants also described factors that hindered collaborative practice, such as problems in cross-systems communication and fragmentation of services, as well as strategies that were employed to address or minimize these problems. Findings underscore the value of "lessons learned" from communities that have established successful collaborative programs, policies, and practices.

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Advancing Collaborative Practice Between Substance Abuse Treatment and Child Welfare Fields: What Helps and Hinders the Process?

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2010

Administration in Social Work

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“…Finally, they show that concertation can lead practitioners to consider collaborating with their partners in other fields. Thus, this study reveals that, even if collaboration between the concerned fields of practice remains difficult [20][21][22]65,[69][70][71], it is not an impossible goal to achieve.…”

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“…Nonetheless, the operationalization of this principle is not entirely straightforward, since collaboration between the different services remains awkward. Given that the services for IPV and child maltreatment (CM) have developed in separate networks, the organizations and practitioners do not have the same missions or the same understanding of the problems and possible solutions [20][21][22]. Action research was recently conducted through a co-construction of knowledge and practices involving researchers and practitioners [23].…”

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“…Several studies have moreover noted the extent to which complex family situations lead practitioners to divergent readings of the issues and needs of these family members [20][21][22]. It is, thus, interesting to see how the proposed concertation strategy allowed the practitioners to influence each other in their readings of these situations.…”

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“…It is seemingly just as difficult to get resource services for violent partners and those for IPV victims and exposed children to cooperate [68]. Even though its importance has been pointed out by several authors, collaboration remains difficult in concomitant situations [20][21][22]65,[69][70][71].…”

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Concerted Practice-Based Actions in Intimate Partner and Family Violence: When the Children’s Well-Being Is the Central Concern

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Abstract:In Canada, the exposure of children to intimate partner violence is, along with negligence, one of the most frequent forms of maltreatment. Intimate partner violence raises important issues with regard to child custody and to the exercising of parental roles. The aid provided for children exposed to intimate partner violence covers a range of programs, in particular community services specializing in intimate partner violence, frontline social and health services, and child protection. However, these resource services do not share the same missions, or the same understanding of the problems and possible solutions, since they often operate in parallel networks. The complex situations of families confronted with intimate partner violence present considerable challenges in terms of collaboration between the different organizations. Action research was employed to develop an innovative concertation strategy that fostered collaboration between practitioners from different family resource services. The strategy, which was implemented in the Québec City region between 2011 and 2013, was then evaluated. This article presents the results of this evaluation as OPEN ACCESSSoc. Sci. 2014, 3 651 well as the positive outcomes that the concertation strategy had for the practitioners' practice and for the improvement of family services.

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NDIS partnership working? Paradoxes, contested spaces and aspirations of disability leaders, family carers and disability services

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2023

Aust J Social Issues

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In 2022, a new Federal Labor government introduced an NDIA Act amendment and initiatives that indicate a reorientation to partnership working and integration of co‐design principles. “Partnership working” reflects collaborative aspirations where parties commit to trust, shared goals and respect for diverse knowledges and experiences. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) espouses a partnership approach and rights‐based values, yet the neoliberal emphasis on individual choice and marketisation within a social insurance model can privilege certain voices and produce adversarial processes and dynamics. Our focus group research with disability leaders, family carers and disability service professionals explored experiences in the NDIS planning phase with a focus on the extent to which partnership principles operated in practice. Our findings suggest embedded paradoxes; time and resources are required to build the trust and relationships central to interpersonal partnerships between individuals, carers and services but are undermined by organisational and structural factors such as workload pressures, administrative burden and adversarial practices produced in a cost containment context. Tensions in partnership working must also negotiate carers' workload and responsibilities with the autonomy of people with disability. We argue that partnership working is difficult to achieve where structural and systemic limitations and assumptions influence everyday practices. Partnership must operate from empowerment and relational, rather than transactional, principles if genuine participatory and inclusive practice is to be achieved.

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Domestic Violence and Child Protection: Partnerships and Collaboration

Cited by 25 publications

References 39 publications

Advancing Collaborative Practice Between Substance Abuse Treatment and Child Welfare Fields: What Helps and Hinders the Process?

Advancing Collaborative Practice Between Substance Abuse Treatment and Child Welfare Fields: What Helps and Hinders the Process?

Concerted Practice-Based Actions in Intimate Partner and Family Violence: When the Children’s Well-Being Is the Central Concern

NDIS partnership working? Paradoxes, contested spaces and aspirations of disability leaders, family carers and disability services

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