Our Goal: "Healthy Families in Caring Communities"

Safety & Accountability Audit

Our 2007-2009 Work Plan, approved by the state Family Policy Council, included a Service Proposal for a Safety & Accountability Audit on how treatment for DV perpetrators addresses the effects of DV on children exposed.

Safety and Accountability Audit
The Audit is a method of assessment and analysis for exploring institutional responses to domestic violence:  how workers within agencies and systems are organized and coordinated to think and act on cases.  SKCCN developed a community partnership in South King County to conduct a Safety and Accountability Audit to explore how batterer intervention programs address batterers’ violence and its impact on their children.

Audit Question
The Audit question that led the work of the Team was:

How do batterer intervention programs address parenting, co-parenting
and children’s experiences of intimate partner violence?

Final Report and Opposing Opinion
There are always two sides to each issue and the Audit raised a lot of great discussion and some controversy. The SKCCN Board wanted to assure that this issue was discussed openly and honestly so the Board worked diligently with all members of the community to assure open communication. Please take the time to read the following two documents -- the final Audit Team report and an opposing opinion written by a team of Domestic Violence Treatment Providers.