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Best Practice Tools and Resources for CCR Teams*

Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault CCR Toolkit. Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Inc. (2009). Accessible online at: This CCR toolkit provides a host of tools and resources for CCR teams including:

✓ The nuts and bolts of starting and sustaining a CCR such as: taking stock, getting organized, setting goals, planning, keeping people on task, getting commitments, things to consider, team organization, topics for meetings, assessing needs, goals and outcomes, roles of members, consensus building, etc.

✓ Tools such as: survey instruments, invitation letters, MOU’s, agenda ideas, mission statements, mapping templates, data collecting questions, etc.

✓ Other topics discussed include: factors influencing successful collaborations, elements to strengthen your collaboration, actions for effective leadership, defining roles and responsibilities, tips for resolving conflict, giving feedback and credit, etc.

Blueprint for Safety—An Interagency Response to Domestic Violence Crimes. Praxis International (2010). Accessible online at: This best practice “blueprint” provides a prototype for linking all intervening agencies under a common foundation. It is an approach to evaluating and revamping an existing coordinated community response by policies and protocols using the Blueprint standards. The Blueprint is essentially a set of plans, but plans drawn with particular attention to the details of interagency case processing in domestic violence-related cases. See especially the Supplement part of the Blueprint, as it includes:

✓ Practitioners’ Guide to Risk and Danger in Domestic Violence Cases

✓ A series of training memos with recommendations for 911 operators, law enforcement, prosecutors, sheriffs’ offices, victim witness, probation, and courts.

Coordinated Community Action Model. Domestic Violence Institute of Michigan. Accessible online at:

✓ A “wheel” describing how communities can coordinate efforts and disciplines to protect victims of domestic violence and hold offenders accountable.

✓ A host of other “wheels” can be found at the National Center for Domestic and Sexual Violence at:

“Developing Policies and Protocols in Domestic Violence,” by Ellen L. Pence and Coral McDonald and adapted from Chapter 3 of Coordinating Community Responses to Domestic Violence: Lessons from Duluth and Beyond by Shepard and Pence (1999). Accessible online at: This article provides:

✓ A discussion of the rules of policy making.

✓ A domestic violence-related misdemeanor sentencing recommendation matrix.

✓ A checklist to help policy makers examine how a policy will organize workers to think about and act on the unique features of criminal cases.

Domestic Violence Response: A Community Framework for Maximizing Women’s Safety. Victim Services and Crime Prevention Division, Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, British Columbia (January 2010). This document was intended to be used at the local level to aid the development of a comprehensive, coordinated response to domestic violence that fits the unique needs of the community. Accessible online at: This document outlines:

✓ Eight principles and key questions to help communities develop or enhance their coordinated response to domestic violence.

✓ Evidenced-based principles for maximizing women’s safety

✓ Effective strategies for a domestic violence community response framework

Coordinated Community Response Recorded Webinars. Battered Women’s Justice Project. Recorded CCR webinars include:

✓ Substance Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence: A Just Community Response

✓ Organizing the Work of Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs)

✓ Applying for the OVW Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program

✓ Stories from the Streets: Supporting Effective Law Enforcement Response in Charleston’s CCR

✓ Using Practitioner Focus Groups to Improve your CCR: The Charleston Experience

Praxis International at: provides a host of additional materials and resources for CCR teams such as:

✓ Essential Sills in Coordinating Your Communities Response to Battering: An E-Learning Course for CCR Coordinators

✓ Text Analysis as a Tool for a Coordinated Community Response: Keeping Safety for Battered Women and their Children at the Center

✓ Planning and Conducting a Best-Practice Assessment of Community Response to [pic][pic]Domestic Violence

✓ Best Practice Checklists for Improving Community Response to Domestic Violence

✓ Domestic Violence Safety & Accountability Audit - [pic]Potential Interagency Connections

✓ Working from Inside and Outside Institutions: How Safety Audits Can Help Courts' [pic][pic]Decision Making Around Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment

Sexual Assault Response Teams (SART): A Model Protocol for Virginia. Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (May 2011). Accessible online at: This comprehensive guide provides a wide range of information on domestic violence including several helpful tools for CCR’s.

*This resource list has been posted on the Community Defined Solutions to Domestic and Sexual Violence: Virginia website at for easy access to the links provided. Search “Best Practice Tools for CCR Teams.”

Compiled by Madelynn Herman, Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia for the Coordinated Community Response Leadership Institute, June 27-29, 2012.

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