NR — Not able to be Rated. About This Program Target Population: Civil and criminal courts or agents of the court that see or monitor domestic violence cases and the men who appear before them For organizations that serve children ages: 0 — 17 Program Overview The purpose of NY Model Batterer Programs is to provide a service to the civil and criminal court systems, probation, parole, Child Protective Services CPS , and Department of Social Services DSS for men who appear in relation to or have a history of domestic violence.
To function effectively it is crucial that: NY Model Batterer Programs are not used as diversions from a more serious consequence. Orders to attend are made only when the court will issue a consequence to the offender who does not comply.
A key role of NY Model Batterer Programs is to provide the courts with an opportunity to assess an offender's seriousness about following this condition of a court order i. To further clarify, the program is not focused on treating individual offenders; but it is focused on rigorously monitoring participant adherence to program policies and procedures, including attendance and respectful cooperation.
Compliance reports, tailored to each court, are sent to the court in a reliable , personalized and meticulous manner. Essential Components The essential components of the NY Model for Batterer Programs include: The program holds participants accountable only for what the group facilitators can actually hold them accountable for e.
The participant cannot be held accountable for anything such as behavior outside of the sessions. It is imperative that participants are told the policies and then be held to them in a dependable, fair, and just manner. Material presented in the sessions is important; however, it is less critical than: Meticulous reporting to the court about participant compliance with policies Meticulous and fair process of holding participants accountable for complying with policies Only court-ordered men are registered in NY Model Batterer Programs.
There must be a court-imposed consequence for non-compliance. An order to attend is not appropriate as a diversion from a more serious consequence. NY Model Batterer Programs only operate in relationship to the battered women's movement and in support of their local domestic violence coalition.
NY Model Batterer Programs do not make contact with partners of men who are ordered to attend. Can men who use violence really change their behavior? This is a complex question that many studies have failed to clearly answer. Some research shows that some men who complete a non-violence program can make significant changes in their lives while other experiments demonstrate minimal transformation.
FUTURES believes that personal and societal change of men who use violence and the institutions that support their abuse need to be addressed to break the cycle of abuse. The purpose of the online publication is to share information that will support capacity building and help a broad range of stakeholders improve how they respond to domestic violence and work with men who have used violence. But participants who received the extra alcohol counseling session had greater short-term improvement in both violence and alcohol consumption compared to men in the standard batterer program.
When the researchers looked at specific aspects of partner violence, for example, men who received the alcohol intervention were less physically aggressive toward their partners at the three-month mark, and less psychologically aggressive at the six-month mark. The alcohol-intervention group also drank less per day at the three-month mark and drank less often at the six-month mark.
But at every checkpoint in the study, there was little difference in overall frequency of partner violence in both groups, and after a year, the levels of physical and psychological aggression among men in the comparison group caught up to those of the men in the alcohol therapy group.
The improvements associated with the extra alcohol-focused session didn't fade over time, Stuart pointed out, but the extra therapy seemed to give those men a "jump start" over the other group during the early months. For that reason, seeing any positive result, even a small one, in a group of men in a court-ordered program who had not sought treatment on their own was promising, Leonard said.
In Rhode Island, the hour standard batterer program includes a short section on alcohol, but the duration and content of such programs can vary widely by state, according to Stuart.
Other studies have questioned the effectiveness of existing batterer programs, which Stuart says were "created with the best of intentions" but sometimes include methods that aren't supported by evidence and have a lot of room for improvement. He and his colleagues suggest that the jump-start might have lasted longer if there had been multiple follow up "booster" sessions with a therapist over the course of the year.
Although the gains were small and temporary, Stuart thinks the results of this study are a promising start toward improving batterer programs.
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