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Author: Kelly, Liz

Title: Into the Foreground: An Evaluation of the Jacana Parenting Programme

Summary: The Jacana Parenting Service was a pilot programme developed and delivered in partnership between the nia project and Domestic Violence Intervention Project (DVIP) to support parents affected by current and historic domestic violence (DV) in Hackney. The programme offered separate interventions for men as perpetrators and support to women as victim-survivors, using individual and group work, and was funded by the Parenting Fund. The programme emerged out of the relative neglect of the mother-child/father-child relationship within much existing direct work with victim-survivors and perpetrators, although these themes have been addressed in social research. Lessons from the pilot were to be integrated into specialised DV support and intervention, and hopefully extend into wide parenting programmes where DV is often not addressed explicitly. Specifically, the aims were to: · develop a model that synthesises international best practice to address parenting in the context of abusive relationships; · improve the parenting skills of women and men involved in abusive relationships; · enable parents to understand violence/abuse from the child’s perspective and to minimise its impacts; · work with mothers/carers and children to create safety plans; · risk assess abusive fathers to better enable practitioners to minimise and manage risks; · share best practice with practitioners. The programme for women victim-survivors was based on the twin pillars of safety and the impact of domestic violence on mothering. Work with men aimed to extend current models of perpetrator programmes to deepen the content on fathering, although the aim to change men’s abusive behaviours is not explicitly stated. Success criteria were articulated by both developers and deliverers as: increased safety of women and children; enhanced relationships between mothers and children and fathers and children; enhanced capacity to parent in a child-centred way. In short, addressing the relational legacies of domestic violence. This evaluation was commissioned by the nia project to explore both processes and outcomes of the pilot programme. While data for the latter is limited and outcomes in themselves not straight forward to establish, the experiences of women and men who participated in the programme are drawn on to illustrate how Jacana enabled change and new beginnings. A key part of the evaluation was assessing the process of implementing the programme, and what lessons can be gleaned about development, delivery, practice, and negotiating multi-agency responses.

Details: London: Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University, 2011. 59p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 10, 2011 at: http://www.ccrm.org.uk/images/docs/10.2ainto%20the%20foreground%20-%20jacana%20evaluation%20report.pdf

Year: 2011

Country: United Kingdom

URL: http://www.ccrm.org.uk/images/docs/10.2ainto%20the%20foreground%20-%20jacana%20evaluation%20report.pdf

Shelf Number: 123306

Keywords:
Abusers, Male
Domestic Violence
Family Violence (U.K.)
Victims of Family Violence
Violence Against Women