Advancing the Implementation of Effective, Survivor-Driven Advocacy: A Research-to-Practice Fellowship Project
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2019
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Center for Victim Research (CVR)
Abstract
Domestic violence programs are increasingly asked to evaluate their efforts and to establish a theory of change regarding how their programming results in positive outcomes for survivors (Sullivan, 2017). Identifying empirically supported programs and engaging in thoughtful implementation of such programs are often central elements in the development of effective service delivery processes. Indeed, an emphasis on implementation science has been growing given that there is often a significant gap between a program being established as efficacious with a given population and the effective, high fidelity implementation of such programs in “real world” settings.
The current partnership aimed to support the implementation of a particular approach to community-based advocacy, the Community Advocacy Project (CAP), in a local domestic violence agency. While the effectiveness of CAP has been well-established when implemented via university settings, there is less data regarding the effectiveness of this program when implemented in community-based agencies and the processes by which implementation is facilitated in such settings. Thus, our aim was three-fold: a) to facilitate the implementation of CAP at Courage Connection, an agency looking to expand their mobile advocacy capacity; b) to increase their capacity to evaluate their efforts; and c) to create instruments to monitor and document the CAP implementation process.
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Research into Practice, Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships, Collaboration, Victim Services, Victim Assistance, Intimate Partner Violence, Domestic Abuse, Victim Advocates, Mobile Advocacy, Staff Capacity, Implementation Evaluation, Data Collection, Front-line, Skill-building, Survivors, Empowerment, Victim-centered, Social Support, Logic Models, Public Education, Training for Service Providers, Measurement, Evidence-based Practices, Victim Needs, Informal Support, Organizational Planning, Trauma-informed, Employees, Organizational Readiness, Theory of Change, Infrastructure, Assessment
Citation
Griffiths, Isak; Gehrt, Karen; Herges, Corinne; Meno, Camarin; Holland, Hope; Allen, Nicole. (2019). Advancing the Implementation of Effective, Survivor-Driven Advocacy: A Research-to-Practice Fellowship Project. Courage Connection and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign for the Center for Victim Research, Victim Research-to-Practice Fellowship Projects, 2018 cohort, 38 pgs.