Total Credits: 1.5 including 1.5 American Psychological Association, 1.5 Association of Social Worker Boards, 1.5 National Board of Certified Counselors, 1.5 California Board of Registered Nurses, 1.5 State Bar of California
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.
Amalfi started working in the gender-based violence movement 14 years ago as a survivor and student attorney in Tulane Law School's Domestic Violence Law Clinic and continued to represent survivors in protection order and family law proceedings as a private practitioner. Amalfi has developed and supported Coordinated Community Responses (CCR) to intimate partner violence for over ten years. She first coordinated the implementation of the New Orleans Blueprint for Safety policies for seven criminal legal system agencies, while addressing the disproportionately high DV arrest rate of Black women. She has since provided national training and technical assistance to CCRs across the country. Amalfi directs BWJP's National Center on Reimagining CCR, establishing approaches and support for advocates and allied professionals on centering survivor and culturally specific realities in CCR interventions. Amalfi is a former President of the New Orleans Family Justice Alliance Board.