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Holding Offenders Accountable: The Role of the Batterer’s Intervention Program (BIP) in the CCR Team

Bea Coté LCSW LMFT Founder and Executive Director of IMPACT and Step Up to Family Safety

• Received an Enhancing Rural

Strategies from OVW

• About 4 years old
• Dual Domestic Violence and

Sexual Assault Resource Team

The DV/SART of Cleveland County

Acknowledging the Pillars

• Department of Social Services
• Councils on Aging
• Mental Health Groups/ LMEs
• Faith Community
• Educational Partners
• Emergency Medical Services
• LGBTQ Advocacy Groups
• Parish Nurse Programs
• Court Advocates
• And…

Partnering with other Agencies

• The grant allowed for funding of

a part-time coordinator

• The coordinator organizes

monthly meetings and projects; communicates with all current and future participants; gathers information and ideas; consults with NCCADV and others.

Cleveland County Abuse Prevention Council!!!!

Why include BIPs on your CCR?

Simply: for every victim of DV there is an abuser. BIPs address the problem with those causing it. BIPs are advocates, and are designed to do one thing that is vital to a CCR: holding abusers accountable. BIPs do their jobs best when informed by victims, survivors and other advocates.

• February 2014
• Followed the DV System from a

911 call through sentencing and services for victim and offender

• BIP included as part of the

process

Example of BIP involvement: DV Training Day

• Intimately familiar with abusive

behaviors and shares this knowledge with the team

Shares Info

• Keeps your CCR accountable in

your language, approach, and tactics towards batterers.

Clears the Fog

• Has additional resources in place

to help maximize victim safety and minimize victim risk

Further Resources

• Probation and Parole
• Victim Service Providers
• District Attorney’s office
• Judges
• Court Advocates
• Department of Social Services

BIPs are already invested in this work and provide more connections to:

• Provide accountability to the team on taking abuse seriously and not

underestimating batterers

• Provide additional resources that promote safe communities and help

maximize victim safety

• Provide further connections to other valuable community partners

BIPs are an invaluable asset to your CCR!

• They have helped bring
• ur court system to the

table

• Working on some new

court domestic violence protocols

• Issues pertaining to

sentencing with probation and parole

Bringing in Other Partners

Questions?

Thank you to CCR Coordinator for Cleveland County, Jerry Reed, who developed most of these slides.