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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Goff, Susan | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-30T23:46:30Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-30T23:46:30Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2001 | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9781877042027 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/19475 | - |
| dc.format | vi., 283 p. | en |
| dc.language | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Commonwealth of Australia : Canberra | en |
| dc.subject | Community development | en |
| dc.subject | Informal responses | en |
| dc.title | Claiming back community: the final report for the partners for prevention participatory action research study | en |
| dc.type | Report | en |
| dc.identifier.catalogid | 3975 | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | new_record | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | Australian Capital Territory | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | Australian | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | Report | en |
| dc.description.notes | The key messages of the study are that:<br/ ><br/ >? Some personal responses increase the violation of family members' rights to make their own decisions about their physical, sexual, spiritual, social, emotional and financial safety – and this is also true of some formal responses;<br/ ><br/ >? Some personal responses can be highly effective in reducing such violation and securing family members' rights to make their own decisions about their physical, sexual, spiritual, social, emotional and financial safety – and this is also true of formal responses;<br/ ><br/ >? Personal supporters are more likely to be friends than family members, but in most cases help seekers use a combination of both forms of support;<br/ ><br/ >? The duration of a friendship is not important to the response to help; however, offering help commonly results in awkwardness and even loss of friendship;<br/ ><br/ >? While perpetrator retribution against personal supporters has been documented in the study, survey statistics state that personal supporters are rarely at risk themselves;<br/ ><br/ >? Because personal network responses will continue to take place at varying distances from formal systems, participants believed that it is the responsibility of formal systems to become informed about personal network responses, to recognise the real or potential value and risk of such responses, and to aid in developing their effectiveness from an informed, non-judgmental point of view;<br/ ><br/ >? When formal services support personal network members the person experiencing family violence has the right to nominate the personal supporter[s], and to end or continue this contact;<br/ ><br/ >? Personal support does not threaten agency funding and capability but increases agency efficiency, effectiveness and appropriateness;<br/ ><br/ >? Finally, the participants hold the view that an intelligent and sensitive development of personal support activities will add significantly to the ACT's social capital in four ways:<br/ ><br/ >o By ameliorating the damaging consequences of family violence for individuals, groups, and their intergenerational impacts;<br/ ><br/ >o By ameliorating the damaging consequences of harmful, personal network responses;<br/ ><br/ >o By adding to the effectiveness of the formal system in terms of consumer sensitivity, accountability and reinforcement of agency intervention in personal network contexts (work, education, family, neighbourhood and friendship networks, for example).<br/ ><br/ >The study found that there is currently in the ACT a limited but evident community capacity (formal and informal) to develop personal support within a social capital framework. The ACT's most notable social capital regarding family violence matters is the sector's ability to maintain its effectiveness while also coping with severe resource issues and a high degree of ideological diversity. In other words, the ACT's domestic and family violence sector is highly resilient even if funding systems and market segmentation have acted against the flexibility of some services under these conditions. This study has generated limited but valid evidence to suggest that with appropriate professional and lay education, the ACT's capacity for social capital can be realised with the outcome of increasing the preventative capabilities of agencies and personal networks without acting against the essential diversity of strongly held positions. | en |
| dc.date.entered | 2002-01-11 | en |
| dc.publisher.place | ACT | en |
| dc.description.physicaldescription | vi., 283 p. | en |
| Appears in Collections: | Reports | |
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