Leveraging Social Networks in Direct Services: Are Foundations Doing All They Can?

Smyth, Katya Fels

doi:10.4087/foundationreview-d-10-00021

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“…In case management or advocacy, trained staff members link individuals to resources to address immediate and longer term needs and entitlements for employment, education, housing, financial, childcare, and legal services (Macy et al, 2009). It is entirely possible, however, that if trained and supported in the right way, other survivors or friends and family members could help each other find needed resources or apply for critical benefits (Smyth, in press). As the next section shows, people living in the same community may be particularly equipped to support each other not only in addressing issues directly related to DV, but also in addressing the myriad issues that are indirectly related to it, including isolation and the need for mutually enriching relationships.…”

Section: Opportunities For DV Services To Help Survivors Engage With ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A call for a social network-oriented approach to services for survivors of intimate partner violence.

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Smyth²

2011

Psychology of Violence

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The Full Frame Initiative Despite the many hard-won victories of the antidomestic violence movement, it has had less success in reaching one of its own primary goals: that of making intimate partner violence a problem of the community rather than a problem between two individuals. Most mainstream domestic violence service models have not prioritized ongoing engagement of survivors' informal social support networks as a core part of their work. Yet the perpetration of domestic violence occurs within a community context that contributes to the maintenance or alleviation of the problem. Given extensive research on the centrality of social networks to the fabric of survivors' daily lives, as well as their ongoing safety and emotional well-being, it is critical to consider how domestic violence services and systems can align with these social networks more effectively. Following a review of research on the role of informal social support in survivors' lives, this article calls for a shift in mainstream domestic violence services toward a more network-oriented approach, one that highlights potential partnerships between professionals and survivors' informal social support networks. Such a shift would require a reconceptualization of the role of the domestic violence practitioner and the scope and nature of services. It would also raise a series of emergent research questions about how informal network members can best support survivors, how domestic violence services can help survivors engage with existing and new supporters, and the extent to which specific types of network-oriented practices can indeed improve survivors' safety and well-being.

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Section: Opportunities For DV Services To Help Survivors Engage With ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A call for a social network-oriented approach to services for survivors of intimate partner violence.

Goodman¹,

Smyth²

2011

Psychology of Violence

Self Cite

119

111

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Leveraging Social Networks in Direct Services: Are Foundations Doing All They Can?

Cited by 1 publication

References 48 publications

A call for a social network-oriented approach to services for survivors of intimate partner violence.

A call for a social network-oriented approach to services for survivors of intimate partner violence.

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