Domestic Violence/Intimate Partner Violence
Blue Shield Against Violence Program
Employer Protocols and Promising Practices • California
With the understanding that domestic violence doesn't stay at home when an individual goes to work, the Blue Shield Against Violence Program of the Blue Shield of California Foundation engaged Korwin Consulting in designing protocols and gathering promising practice materials regarding intimate partner violence. We worked in partnership with the Program to develop materials to assist employers create, implement, and improve institutional policies and practices to better respond to the threat and impact of intimate partner violence in the workplace.
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence
California
As an advocate for social change, CPEDV’S prevention strategy is to promote respectful and equitable nonviolent relationships through individual-, relationship-, community-, and societal-level change. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funds CPEDV which, in turn, provides funding and support for four local California communities to prevent and respond to intimate partner violence within their community. All four local coordinated community response teams (CCRs) are focusing efforts in part on preventing and addressing the impact of domestic violence on children and/or youth. Using a combination of one-on-one coaching, training, evaluation design, and analysis, Korwin Consulting built CPEDV and their prevention partners’ capacity to evaluate, strengthen, and sustain their prevention efforts.
City of San Jose Domestic Violence Advisory Board
Outcome-Based Strategic Plan • San Jose/Santa Clara County
Korwin Consulting facilitated a year-long outcome-based planning process in collaboration with the City of San Jose’s Family/Domestic Violence Advisory Board. Through a review of local, state and national data, interviews with key community leaders, and the convening of strategic community planning retreats, the Advisory Board is better positioned to respond effectively to domestic and family violence within their community.
Narika
Survivor Economic Empowerment and Development (SEED) Evaluation Design • Bay Area
Narika seeks to confront the problem of domestic violence in the South Asian community and address the unmet needs of abused South Asians within a culturally sensitive, linguistically diverse model. Korwin Consulting is assisting Narika in designing an evaluation for its Survivor Economic Empowerment and Development (SEED) program. SEED aims to prevent domestic violence and foster a safer community by strengthening the economic self-sufficiency and self-confidence of South Asian women through the development of leadership skills and the encouragement of personal and professional growth.
Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence
HomeSafe Transitional Housing Program Evaluation • Santa Clara County
Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence, a Santa Clara-based comprehensive domestic violence agency, contracted with Korwin Consulting to evaluate the HomeSafe transitional housing program. Through a combination of key informant interviews, focus groups, and data analysis, Korwin Consulting’s retrospective evaluation of HomeSafe provided Next Door with the information needed to determine HomeSafe’s future program direction.
San Francisco Department on the Status of Women
Needs Assessment-Violence against Women and Girls • San Francisco
Korwin Consulting conducted a needs assessment on behalf of the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women to better understand violence against women and girls in San Francisco. We assembled an experienced 12-person team reflecting the cultures and proficient in the languages most spoken by community members. We translated protocols and conducted focus groups and interviews in multiple languages—Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Arabic—resulting in a final product that continues to inform program practice and funding of anti-violence programs in San Francisco. Download Creating a Safer San Francisco: Integrating Multicultural Strategies to End Violence Against Women and Girls.
Santa Clara Domestic Violence Advocacy Consortium
Outcome-Based Strategic Plan • Santa Clara County
The Santa Clara Domestic Violence Advocacy Consortium promotes safety for battered women and their children by ensuring sustainability of its leadership, building consensus on best practices, ensuring representation of survivors, and bringing visibility to domestic violence. Korwin Consulting facilitated an outcome-based planning process that better positioned the Consortium to articulate its proposed outcomes as well as measure future impact.
Support Network for Battered Women
Victim Advocacy Project Evaluation • Santa Clara County
Korwin Consulting evaluated the Victim Advocacy Project, an early intervention model that enables the Support Network for Battered Women (SNBW) to proactively reach out to victims of domestic violence and provide them with access to support and services. Through an analysis of the domestic violence victims’ characteristics and program service delivery, as well as interviews with SNBW staff, detectives at participating police departments, and clients, this evaluation identified aspects of the program that are working and those that may need to be strengthened.
Zero Tolerance for Domestic Violence: Families Thrive Initiative
Contra Costa County
Families Thrive is a Contra Costa County partnership dedicated to strengthening caring communities and strategies that change the lives of children and youth exposed to domestic violence. Organized as a Community of Practice (CoP), Families Thrive:
- Convenes CoP members to foster collaborative practices and partnerships,
- Provides individual and organizational capacity building through in-person and online training,
- Supports Prototypes—community groups positioned to identify and test specific actions or strategies to advance support for children, youth and families with a focus on organizational and systems change.
As evaluator of this initiative, Korwin Consulting evaluates the initiative’s various strategies, provides ongoing evaluation coaching to Prototype groups in formulating indicators and evaluation plans, and conducts periodic Dialogue with Data sessions to collectively review evaluation findings and discuss strategic implications. Download Families Thrive Year One Evaluation.