Innovations in Interventions to Address Intimate Partner Violence

Innovations in Interventions to Address Intimate Partner Violence: Research and Practice speaks to what can be done to effectively intervene to end intimate partner violence against women.

Introduction Tod Augusta-Scott, Katreena Scott, and Leslie M. Tutty I. Responses to Women Abused by Intimate Partners 1. "A place to go to when I had no place to go to:" Journeys of VAW Emergency Shelter Residents. Leslie M. Tutty 2. Re-thinking Safety Planning: A Self-Directed Tool for Rural Women who are Abused. Deborah Doherty. Deborah Doherty 3. "If they can get through it, so can I:" Women's Perspectives of Peer-led Support Groups for Intimate Partner Violence. Leslie M. Tutty, Cindy Ogden, Karen Wyllie, and Andrea Silverstone II. Intervention with Men who have Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence 4. Justice-Linked Domestic Violence Intervention Services: Description and Analysis of Practices Across Canada Katreena Scott, Lisa Heslop, Randal David, and Tim Kelly 5. Complex Trauma and Dominant Masculinity: A Trauma-Informed, Narrative Therapy Approach with Men who Abuse Their Female Partners. Tod Augusta-Scott and Leland Maerz 6. Co-Constructing Meaning: Women and Men Define Taking Responsibility and Making Amends Yoshiyuki Takano 7. A Continuum of Services for Men who Abuse: Developing a Small-City Coordinated Community Response Model. Rosanna Langer III. Legal Responses to Domestic Violence 8. The Nova Scotia Domestic Violence Court Pilot Project: Lessons Learned from Evaluation. Diane Crocker and Robert Crocker 9. Shifting Towards a Trauma-Informed, Holistic Legal Service Model for Survivors of Violence: The Calgary Legal Guidance Family Law Program. Kayla Gurski and Tiffany Butler IV. Restorative Justice 10. Creating Safety, Respect and Equality for Women: Lessons from the Intimate Partner Violence and Restorative Justice Movements. Tod Augusta-Scott, Pamela Harrison, and Verona Singer 11. Restorative Justice, Domestic Violence and the Law: A Panel Discussion. Tod Augusta-Scott, Leigh Goodmark, and Joan Pennell 12. Preparing Men to Help the Women They Abused Achieve Just Outcomes: A Restorative Approach. Tod Augusta-Scott V. Broadening the Lens: Integrating Interventions for Domestic Violence Across Systems 13. Strengthening Families: An Evaluation of a Pilot Couple's Program for Situational Intimate Partner Violence and Substance Abuse. Leslie M. Tutty and Robbie Babins-Wagner 14. Men Who Abuse Intimate Partners: Their Evaluation of a Responsible Fathering Program. Joan Pennell and Erika Brandt 15. Preventing Homelessness for Women Who Leave Abusive Partners: A Shelter-based "Housing First" Program. Monique Auffrey, Leslie M. Tutty, and Alysia C. Wright