Lauren Schuster highlights abusive partner intervention programs
Schuster says URI operates abusive partner intervention programs that provide accountability-based trauma-informed programming. She cites an Urban Institute evaluation finding reduced recidivism, arguing such investments increase survivor safety and lower long-term city costs.
Oh, that was on the whole time.
I just wanted to uplift what you said.
Hurt people hurt people.
You or I and many of the other providers here in this room operate abusive partner intervention programs where we provide accountability-based trauma-informed programming to people who have caused harm.
For so long, we have relied on survivors to be responsible for ending their own violence without engaging the harming parties in that.
And it is true that people who have caused harm have experienced harm.
Almost 80% in research that we've done of people who have caused harm have experienced some sort of trauma prior to that.
URI's APIP program was recently evaluated by the Urban Institute, and it found that it was a promising practice, and it had significant impact on recidivism rates over a 12-month period
after successful program completion.
And so it is a real investing in programs that work with people who cause harm has the potential to increase safety for survivors and reduce recidivism so that the city's costs also go down in the long run.
And so I cannot agree more with all of the points that you made.
Thank you.