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Paper Presentation

Violence Against Women and their Children

Session: Violence, Place, and Policy: Rethinking Intervention and Advocacy in Responses to Victimization

Forgetting our roots: DV shelters prioritization of micro-level interventions at policy advocacy’s expense

Domestic violence (DV) shelters have shifted their focus from a more macro-oriented approach to a micro-level approach over the last 50 years. Today, shelters identify individual causes of DV and provide treatment to individuals, which may limit their capacity to engage in policy advocacy to ensure their federal funding remains.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, attendees should be able to:
  1. identify the current priorities of domestic violence shelters.
  2. describe the historical and current views of domestic violence shelters on the causes of domestic violence.
  3. discuss how domestic violence shelters participate in community and policy advocacy.