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The Duluth, Minnesota, Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP) Advocacy Response

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Description

The Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP) began in 1980 as the first project of its kind to coordinate every criminal justice agency in one city in an effort to deliver justice for battered women. This project served as a model nationally and internationally. The DAIP collaborates with the area shelter for battered women to provide advocacy for battered women while they work through the legal system.

Goal / Mission

The mission of DAIP is to provide advocacy on behalf of battered women. DAIP staff provide information and assess the women's safety regardless of the situation, but they also offer advocacy at three key time periods: immediately after police intervention and arrest, throughout the court proceedings, and after case disposition. The advocates offer support and information about available community resources, explain the criminal court process, describe the civil court remedies available, and obtain information from the women in order to serve as their liaisons to the legal system and to ascertain the level of danger that each woman is in.

Results / Accomplishments

Due to DAIP's success, in 1991 the Minnesota Legislature mandated that each of the 38 Legislative Assignment Districts establish an intervention project coordinated by a battered women's advocacy group. As of 1997, there were 44 intervention projects in Minnesota.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP)
Primary Contact
Linda Riddle, Executive Director
202 East Superior Street
Duluth, MN 55802
(218) 722-2781 x124
lriddle@theduluthmodel.org
http://www.theduluthmodel.org/
Topics
Community / Domestic Violence & Abuse
Health / Women's Health
Organization(s)
Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP)
Source
Violence Against Women Online Resources
Date of publication
2003
Location
Duluth, MN
For more details
http://www.theduluthmodel.org/
Target Audience
Families

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  1. The program description includes at a minimum: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program implementation steps, and outcomes that have demonstrated program success and/or promise in achieving the program goal in one or more localities.
  2. The results from an evaluation of the program include quantitative measures of improvement in outcome of interest (i.e. increase in voter registration, not just delivery of voter registration drive) and/ or the outcome measure is increased or improved compared to the baseline measurement or the control group but the difference is not statistically significant.