Military
The Military Advocacy Resource Network is an OVW funded project providing technical assistance, resources and support for all advocates, military and civilian, who serve military families and work with victims of DV/SA/stalking and dating violence perpetrated by military personnel.
Currently BWJP is providing technical assistance and project coordination for the Military/Civilian Coordinated Response to Domestic Violence Demonstration Site Project. This initiative will create guidelines for coordinating the response of civilian and military agencies to domestic violence cases involving military personnel. These guidelines will enhance victim safety and autonomy, effectively hold perpetrators accountable for ending their violence, and provide safety and support to children exposed to violence in these families. The findings from this project will be summarized in A Guide to Developing a Military/Civilian Coordinated Community Response to Domestic Violence, which will be online in June 2009.
BWJP is available for trainings and consultation for both military and civilian communities on strategic planning and assessment, collaboration, outreach and victim services, and readiness to work with the specific issues of military victims. BWJP has a group of staff and consultants with extensive experience working with the military and surrounding civilian communities on domestic violence. Our experience with training military communities has taught us that it’s important for a community to adopt a consistent approach to cases that is reinforced by each intervener in the chain of institutional response and that the appropriate linkages are established to promote victim safety and offender accountability. |
