A Safer Sunshine Coast Community through Strong Collaboration
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Tamborine Gallery
| Thursday, December 2, 2021 |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM |
Overview
Ms Priscilla Thorpe, Sunshine Coast Child & Families Team & Ms Stacey Hampshire, IFYS Limited
Speaker
Ms Stacey Hampshire
DFV Service Coordinator
IFYS Limited
A Safer Sunshine Coast Community Through Strong Collaboration
Abstract
Rodney Vlais (2016:p2) asks us to consider that perpetrator accountability "can mean the ability of systems and agencies to work together to keep the perpetrator within view, to assess, monitor and manage dynamic risk, to share information about his particular patterns of coercive control and the thinking he uses to justify violence, to create possibilities for engagement, and to place barriers or ‘restraints’ around the opportunities he has to use violence." This response pivots the focus to the perpetrator and containing their risk as opposed to focusing solely on protecting victims.
Through strong relationships forged by co-location, a shared language and understanding of domestic violence informed lens, trusted collaboration and a commitment to be led by adult and child survivors to inform our decisions, the Sunshine Coast Domestic and Family VIolence Coordination Service and the Queensland Police Sunshine Coast Domestic VIolence and Vulnerable Persons Unit are creating change now and for future generations.
With the support of local service providers who are committed to a safer Sunshine Coast community for all families, IFYS and the Qld Police are able to contribute to mapping stronger patterns around perpetrator behaviours and therefore take stronger actions - towards accountability for the perpetrator, and safety for adult and child survivors. We are dedicated to the belief that together, we can break the cycle.
3 Key Learnings:
1. Change happens at the speed of trust, trust takes time.
2. Collaboration requires consistent commitment and energy
3. Sustained change must be anchored at the service level, rather than being limited to a person or position.
Through strong relationships forged by co-location, a shared language and understanding of domestic violence informed lens, trusted collaboration and a commitment to be led by adult and child survivors to inform our decisions, the Sunshine Coast Domestic and Family VIolence Coordination Service and the Queensland Police Sunshine Coast Domestic VIolence and Vulnerable Persons Unit are creating change now and for future generations.
With the support of local service providers who are committed to a safer Sunshine Coast community for all families, IFYS and the Qld Police are able to contribute to mapping stronger patterns around perpetrator behaviours and therefore take stronger actions - towards accountability for the perpetrator, and safety for adult and child survivors. We are dedicated to the belief that together, we can break the cycle.
3 Key Learnings:
1. Change happens at the speed of trust, trust takes time.
2. Collaboration requires consistent commitment and energy
3. Sustained change must be anchored at the service level, rather than being limited to a person or position.
Biography
Stacey is a Mental Health Social Worker with a career spanning 10 years in the non-government and private sectors dedicated to working alongside women, children and families experiencing domestic and family violence. Stacey is passionate about creating strong communities of women and is committed to working towards ending gender based violence against women and girls. She currently works as a private practitioner at Blackbird Counselling, as well as the Domestic and Family Violence Service Coordinator with Integrated Family Youth Service (IFYS) who co-locate with the QPS Vulnerable Persons’ Unit. She is here today presenting with her colleague from IFYS on how the Sunshine Coast region has developed a collaborative and coordinated systems response to domestic and family violence through a focus on perpetrator accountability and healing, and partnering with the adult and child victim/survivor.
Ms Priscilla Thorpe
Sunshine Coast Child & Families Team
A Safer Sunshine Coast Community through Strong Collaboration
Abstract
See Stacey Hampshire's profile
Biography
Priscilla worked in the criminal justice system as a practitioner for 14 years, working with offenders in the community. Shifting gears in 2019, she transitioned to the NGO space and commenced with IFYS Sunshine Coast Domestic and Family Violence Service System Coordination Service, operating at the service system level, to support communication, collaboration and systems analysis toward effective domestic violence responses for families. She is passionate about being survivor led, child focused and upholding perpetrator accountability, and she is constantly inspired by her sector colleagues.
