Type:	Report
Title:	Women's journey away from family violence : framework and summary
Authors:	State of Victoria Department of Human Services
Keywords:	Theories of violence;Service provision;Informal responses;Community attitudes;Community education
Year:	2004
Publisher:	Community Care Division, Dept. of Human Services
Notes:	This project aims to: research women’s recovery from family violence (termed journey away from family violence); and develop a framework that informs a flexible and coordinated Victorian response. Based on participatory action research and women’s narratives from 121 female participants, 83 service providers and 147 workers, the findings provided a theoretical framework for developing a spiral pathway to understand the experience of women journeying away from family violence. This interwoven spiral pathway consists of 4 stages and attempts to reflect women’s movement from one spiral to another with the possibility of ‘recycling’ back to another level. It argues that societal response – response of family, friends, work colleagues and other community members – to women’s disclosures as crucial to the actions women take to change their situation. It suggests how personal and community networks, and dimensions of the service delivery systems (family violence and support service, justice, housing, economic and health) could maximise elements in the different stages of the spiral pathway.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/19772
Physical description:	50 p.
Appears in Collections:	Reports

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