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OUR AGENDA

1:00 Welcome (Aracely)

Check-in: What is one thing someone shared in an interview that stuck out to you?

1:10 CCI Amplify Debrief & Learning Process (Allison)

1:15 Interview themes (Theresa)

1:25 Local Domestic Violence Snapshot (Stacey)

1:50 How might we begin? Which gaps do we want to fill? What’s possible?

What are our top priority areas? (Theresa)
Next steps: who, how, etc. (Aracely)

2:25 Upcoming meetings - Next team meeting - date? In person? (Aracely)

Tues 8/10 2-3:30 pm @ Chanticleer Park

Upcoming Amplify meetings:

Tuesday, 8/3 2pm
Tues, 9/7 Webinar #2 Community Engagement Insights & Evaluation Session

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THEMES (From Community Interviews

Family - importance and strength of family & positive parenting

Community - sense of community is strong with room for improvement; community-driven wellbeing

Safety & Belonging - importance of a real sense of belonging, free of racism and stigma

Resources - need ways to connect people to appropriate resources, including housing, economic supports, counseling

Questions Around Domestic Violence - How do we prevent DV? How do we talk about and begin to heal from DV in our community?

Healing Practices & Pathways - Learning how to cultivate safe & healthy relationships, empathy, emotional intelligence

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THEMES (From Community Interviews

Family
Community
Safety & Belonging
Resources
Questions around DV
Healing Practices & Pathways

How might we begin? Which gaps do we want to fill? What’s possible?

What are our top priority areas? (Theresa)
Next steps: who, how, etc. (Aracely)

Ideas:

“Focus groups” “Community Circle: (call this something that will resonate with the intended audience and connects with our goal of engaging and building healing community space)
Including with boys, girls, moms, dads (separately)
Focus group questions around research and themes we’ve already ID’d “structure with room for magic”
Get clear with what the goal is - questions are crafted to accomplish this

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Following slides are just for reference

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Live Oak Youth Partnership - Our Mission

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Phase 1:

Mar - June ‘21

Learn

Phase 2:

July - Oct ‘21

Phase 3:

Nov - May ‘22

Phase 4:

June - Dec ‘22

Plan

Implement

Sustain

2021

2022

CRADLE TO CAREER | LIVE OAK

Timeline

Gain understanding about:

Each other

Our programs

DV prevention landscape

Identify population focus, project vision, goals

Develop “pitch”

Test, co-design and refine solutions

Institutionalize promising & successful solutions

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DV Snapshot: Introduction

Domestic Violence (DV) is a pattern of abusive behavior toward an intimate partner in a dating or family relationship, where the abuser exerts power and control over the victim.

Victims of domestic abuse may also include a child or other relative,

or any other household member.

Violence against women is common, starts early, and is connected

to other forms of violence.

Data on violence against women are flawed: they come from

multiple sources and use inconsistent definitions.

Violence against women is considered to be significantly under-reported because the criminal justice and health care systems only capture violence that leads to formal contact with those systems.

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DV Snapshot: Local Data

Walnut Avenue Family & Women’s Center

Increase in calls from 19-20 to 20-21
Decrease in calls during April 2020 compared to April 2019 & 2021

Monarch Services

Increase in calls, clients served, and services provided from 19-20 to 20-21
Emergency housing more than doubled from 19-20 to 20-21

Santa Cruz County-level Data

Below state average for child abuse cases
Below state average for domestic violence calls (Rank 14th), but they’ve been increasing since 2016
Below state average for women’s hospital encounters for assault (Rank 6th)
Above state average for sexual assaults (Rank 37th)
Above state average for women feeling safe in their neighborhoods

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DV Snapshot: Contributing Factors

Violence leads to violence -- children who witness violence at home are more likely to harm their future partner or be harmed by them, and adolescents who bully their peers are also more likely to “graduate to intimate partner violence.”

In Santa Cruz County, nearly a quarter of adults have four or more Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), which can lead to a wide variety of adult health problems, ranging from behavioral health and substance use

issues to chronic diseases such as

heart disease.

High ACEs and experiencing violence

is linked to later incarceration for

women

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DV Snapshot: Contributing Factors

Santa Cruz County’s housing market makes it more

difficult than it already is for victims of violence to

leave their living situations

Many survivors express confusion about the legal

system and require help in navigating the complexities

of court cases as well as the implications of

“decoupling” from leases and joint accounts

Especially vulnerable populations include:

field workers, women experiencing homelessness,

women with language and/or cultural barriers,

women lacking legal documents, and members of

the LGBTQI community

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DV Snapshot: Best Practices

Prevention Strategies and Approaches:

Teach safe and healthy relationship skills
Engage influential adults and peers
Disrupt developmental pathways toward

partner violence

Create protective environments
Strengthen economic supports for families
Support survivors to increase safety and lessen

harm

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DV Snapshot: Role for Schools

Provide mental and behavioral

health services to youth in schools

Integrate social-emotional learning

(SEL) and positive behavioral

interventions and support (PBIS)

Start conversations about healthy

relationships early on

Require sexual health education in middle and high school
Promote/Implement programs such as “Love is Respect,” “Dating Matters,” and “Shifting Boundaries”
Engage men and boys as allies - explore “Coaching Boys into Men” and interventions outside the school setting
Hold schools accountable for responding to sexual and domestic violence under Title IX

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DV Snapshot: Resources for Prevention

Walnut Avenue:

Community & Preventative Education (including Youth/Schools)

Monarch Services:

Community & Preventative Education (including Youth/Schools)

Dynamics of Domestic Violence (video presentation from Monarch)

Explore the subtleties of domestic violence, power and control and how to support survivors of domestic violence.

Green Dot

A comprehensive violence prevention strategy that depends on the power of bystanders to prevent violence and shift social and cultural norms.

Information Escrow (TEDTalk - described at 4:45)

A confidential allegation (e.g., re: sexual harassment/assault) transmitted to a secure, online site where it is time-stamped and held for possible future reporting to appropriate authorities.