Reimagining Coordinated Community Response: Centering Survivors & Culturally Specific Realities

Coordinated Community Response (CCR) is the most widely replicated approach to addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) over the past forty years. Although CCR has strengthened certain aspects of the criminal legal system’s (CLS) response to IPV, survivors continue to encounter a myriad of challenges in navigating the CLS, with survivors on the margins of society experiencing disparate outcomes and harmful collateral consequences of system intervention. As a national leader in responding to challenges posed by legal systems, BWJP's findings from extensive work with CCRs around the country, listening to survivors and advocates, and assessing the CLS’s response to IPV reveal that years of systems reform work have not had the desired impact and that a reimagined approach to CCR is critical for the safety and wellbeing of survivors. This workshop offers a Survivor-Centered Design for CCRs, that promotes systemic change that works for survivors, responds to their culturally specific realities, coordinates all systems responding to IPV, includes all communities that survivors belong to, and removes barriers that prevent marginalized survivors from accessing safety and accountability. The workshop further describes a process for achieving a Survivor-Centered Design, that utilizes the Institutional Analysis method, with examples of CCRs applying aspects of the process in systemic reform work.

This was originally recorded at the 29th Annual San Diego International Summit.