Community Collaborations
GBVRG is dedicated to collaborating with community partners to support grant development, evaluate interventions, and conduct research. Anti-violence organizations provide essential services to our communities, and the GBVRG aims to help demonstrate their contributions and identify current needs through research. GBVRG also provides training for community organizations and training programs ranging from IPV101 to vicarious trauma prevention. Past examples of community collaborations include:
Supporting anti-gun violence and anti-domestic violence agencies with literature reviews for programmatic grants
Supporting anti-domestic violence agencies to create an evaluation plan
Conducting an evaluation of an anti-gun violence agency’s vision, mission, and values statements and developing new statements
Conducting an evaluation of an anti-domestic violence agency’s survivors’ support and advocacy group
Working with anti-violence practitioners, survivors, and clinicians on research advisory boards
Developing a multi-day and single-session vicarious trauma prevention training for anti-domestic violence agencies
Facilitating vicarious trauma prevention policy development with an anti-domestic violence agency
Conducting an evaluation with an anti-domestic violence agency to identify why survivors may drop out of the protection order process
These partnerships start in a variety of ways. We have been approached by agencies with ideas, we have approached agencies with projects, and we have been matched with agencies by grantors as technical assistants to execute the agency’s research objectives. In alignment with social work’s core belief that we meet people where they are, we work with agencies on a sliding scale and collaborate with agencies to seek funding. If you are interested in collaborating with us on a project or training of any size, please contact us here.