1. creative interventions community-based domestic violence intervention project RWJ Fresh Ideas Grantee Meeting March 18 – 10, 2008

2. creative interventions brief organizational overview
Oakland based – national scope
Violence intervention/prevention through community building
Targets marginalized communities: communities of color, immigrant, LGBTQ
Collaborative program model
Accessible, community-friendly models and tools

3. conventional remedies to violence
creative interventions promoting community-based interventions to interpersonal violence
conventional remedies to violence
help from outside systems
safety = leaving
abuser accountability = criminalization
solution = separation and community dislocation
wait until crisis
creative interventions as alternative option
help from friends, family, social network
safety = community accountability
solution = strengthened community capacity for health
targets early and all stages of violence

4. creative interventions what is needed to build community capacity to end violence? project goals
define a community-based interventions approach
build an effective model
create community-appropriate tools
test and evaluate model and tools
develop community training materials
regenerate the model across regions and communities
shift systems towards community-based approach

5. creative interventions project collaborative partners

6. creative interventions community-based domestic violence intervention project