Assessing Collaboration Among Community Providers Working with Victims of Interpersonal Violence

• In Event: Evaluation of the Office of Violence Against Women’s Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Demonstration Initiative

Abstract

The DVHPDI evaluation plan includes an assessment of collaboration between partner agencies conducted at baseline and then re-administered to determine if implementation of the model program impacted collaboration between providers. To gather this data, providers completed an online survey that asked which agencies in the network they currently collaborate with and to describe the nature of that collaboration specific to information sharing, advocacy, referrals, and resources. In addition, providers were asked to respond to open-ended questions about the barriers and facilitators to collaboration and what else is needed in their community to help families impacted by IPV. Social network analysis was conducted to determine any changes in the network density, reciprocity in collaborations, and the density of the support network for victims of domestic violence. This paper will present the methods used to gather and analyze these data, results of the social network analysis and results of the content analysis conducted on the qualitative data.

Authors

• Joy S. Kaufman, Yale University School of Medicine

• Christopher D. Maxwell, Michigan State University

• Tami Sullivan, Yale University School of Medicine

• Katine Gionteris, Yale University School of Medicine

• Siobhan Thompson, Yale University School of Medicine