Improving Community Response to Crime Victims: An Eight-Step Model for Developing Protocol

Boles, A. B.; Patterson, J. C.; Artz, Sibylle

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“…SHYIP used an eight-step model for protocol development originally designed for improving services for crime victims. 12 The eight steps involved: introducing the concept of multi-sectoral protocol development to relevant stakeholders and inviting their membership in SHYIP; developing an inventory of existing services; conducting a needs assessment by eliciting the perspectives of experiential youth and various service providers who come in contact with sexually exploited youths; drafting the protocols; renewing interagency agreements; training service providers; and documenting the changes that resulted from the new collaborations. Experiential youths self-identified as having runaway, been homeless and/or sexually exploited and services providers were chosen based on their experience with the target population.…”

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The Safe Harbors Youth Intervention Project: inter-sectoral collaboration to address sexual exploitation in Minnesota

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The authors aimed to evaluate the Safe Harbors Youth Intervention Project inter-sectoral collaboration to improve continuity and appropriateness of services for sexually exploited children and adolescents. The study was carried on through an intensive, single case study, drawing on interviews and focus groups with experiential youths (n=125) and multi-sectoral stakeholders (n=196), documented activities, and repeated interviews with collaborating team members (n=29), teen clients (n=46) and parents (n=22). The collaboration was designed around an eight-step process for creating victim-centered protocols within and across organizations, altering services to bridge gaps in care, and creating training tools for the different sectors. The results of the study showed an initial needs assessment documented fragmented care and problematic communication across departments and sectors. The shared protocol development among decision makers from each agency, focused on best practices and evidence-based interventions, fostered trusting relationships, improved awareness of different roles and services, and speeded practice changes to remove barriers to care for sexually exploited youths. A task-focused collaboration with a shared community-wide protocol, increases transparency between services, and ongoing inter-sectoral training helps healthcare team foster a meaningful response to sexually exploited youths

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“…There are a number of reasons for this data inclusion. Firstly, international literature which provided the basis for a comparative analysis of services included descriptions of services for child sexual abuse victims which helped to define ideal practice as holistic service delivery (Boles & Patterson, 1997;Chandler, 2000;Crimes Against Children Research Centre, 2001;District of Columbia, 2001 (a & b); National Children's Alliance, 2000Alliance, , 2002Wurtele, 1999). The same was true of New Zealand literature (Miller Burgering, 1994;Porch, 1990).…”

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“…(Blair, 1985, p.71) Challenges to the immutability of narrow police priorities meant policing could be redefined as protecting victims from the impact of crime (Blair, 1985) and this required avoidance of harm during investigative processes. Congruent with this, Boles and Patterson (1997) too have argued that the criminal justice system has an obligation to reorient its role in accord with the right of everyone to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Due in part to partnerships forged in specialist units then, policing itself has been deconstructed and its philosophy challenged.…”

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“…For these reasons, clearly documented policies and procedures were advocated (Bard, 1976;Carmody, 1988;Epstein & Langenbahn, 1994;Gilmore & Pittman, 1983;Hoffman, 2002;Martin et al, 1992). Despite these advantages, and although protocols have been a feature of multidisciplinary teams in US child abuse services (Boles & Patterson, 1997), early on they were noted as difficult to find in the adult field (Spott, 1980). Later when protocols were found, they were not always observed by police (Campbell, 1998).…”

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“…This was exacerbated by the sometimes fraught relationship between RCCs and police. As Krugman has noted, a degree of conflict is inevitable when diverse agencies combine around a single issue (cited in Boles & Patterson, 1997). At the frontline level of rape-responsiveness, disparate backgrounds, roles, and ideologies compromised the ability of police and the RCCs to work together.…”

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Improving Community Response to Crime Victims: An Eight-Step Model for Developing Protocol

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The Safe Harbors Youth Intervention Project: inter-sectoral collaboration to address sexual exploitation in Minnesota

The Safe Harbors Youth Intervention Project: inter-sectoral collaboration to address sexual exploitation in Minnesota

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