What is Coordinated Community Response?
A coordinated community response brings together a diverse group of community partners to develop a shared vision to collectively and consistently address the widespread impact of domestic and gender-based violence and provide multiple pathways to support, healing, and accountability for families.
CCR is a proven, best-practice model that improves safety for survivors, strengthens accountability for offenders, and reduces strain on overburdened systems.1
Types of CCR
| Systems Level Approach | Stakeholders work together to address system-level issues, learn about services available, increase public awareness, and address challenges facing the community. Does not focus on specific cases. Example: Task Force |
|---|---|
| Collaborative Approach | Joint response teams and co-location of staff and services to increase accessibility to services for victims. Example: FJC, Advocate located at DA office, Advocate on scene with LE or CPS |
| Case Specific Approach | Multi-disciplinary team reviews and responds to specific cases collaboratively. Example: Domestic Violence High-Risk Team |
Center for Justice Innovation. (2024, February 6). The Role of APIPs in the Coordinated Community Response [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afIe1T447Ms
STRIVE
Statewide Targeted Reduction in Intimate Partner Violence (STRIVE) is an initiative helping counties implement evidence-based CCR strategies. New York State’s Division of Criminal Justice Services and Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence help implement STRIVE across NYS.
STRIVE grants support in 17 counties to law enforcement agencies and community organizations that assist victims and survivors and create accountability for abusive partners.
About OPDV's CCR Pilot
Apart from STRIVE, OPDV has heard from counties across the state that they need additional support in creating and sustaining these teams. This 2-year pilot is an opportunity for the selected counties to engage in a process to create a coordinated community response, with the assistance and guidance from OPDV, to better serve those impacted by gender-based violence in their communities. The Pilot will strengthen local systems, improve coordination, and modernize policies.
With extensive technical assistance and implementation support from OPDV, counties will adopt one of two evidence-based approaches:
- Coordinated Community Response Task Force — A multidisciplinary group with the authority to influence policy, improve systemic procedures, and strengthen community awareness to prevent and respond to gender-based violence; or
- Domestic Violence High-Risk Team — A nationally recognized best practice proven to increase survivor safety, strengthen offender accountability, and reduce burdens on local systems through coordinated, proactive intervention.
The CCR Pilot complements Governor Kathy Hochul’s record $20.2 million investment in the Statewide Targeted Reductions in Intimate Partner Violence (STRIVE) initiative.
CCR Pilot Counties
What is OPDV offering to Pilot Counties?
OPDV is offering an opportunity to provide guidance through a four-stage process to create a CCR in the selected communities. CCRs have been shown to enhance survivor safety, offender accountability, and ease the strain that exists on your overburdened systems by working together to systematically address gender-based violence in communities. The Pilot stages include:
- Onboarding
- System Evaluation
- Team Design and Operational Development
- Implementation
Additionally, OPDV will work collaboratively with all teams throughout each stage and offer continued training and technical assistance.
Why counties applied:
- Domestic and Gender-Based Violence is not a personal issue; it is a community issue. It impacts the entire community and requires a collaborative response to send a clear message that it is not tolerated here.
- Participants in the pilot will:
- Enhance survivor safety and offender accountability through coordinated effort
- Strengthen collaboration between agencies and partners
- Receive tailored technical assistance and training from OPDV
- Sustain improvements beyond the pilot by building county-level infrastructure for ongoing collaboration
- Inform model policy for the state
How were counties selected?
CCR Pilot applications were solicited from all non-STRIVE counties in New York State. OPDV received an overwhelming response from 15 counties. After a rigorous review process, 5 counties were selected to participate in the CCR Pilot.
Requirements
Counties that applied were required to have buy-in from at least the designated Core Members to be eligible at this time.
| Task Force | Domestic Violence High-Risk Team |
|---|---|
| District Attorney | District Attorney |
| DV Service Provider | DV Service Provider |
| At least one Law Enforcement Agency | At least one Law Enforcement Agency |
| Department of Social Services |
Many counties had additional systems engaged at the time of the application, surpassing the minimum requirements needed for the creation of their CCR.
Selected Counties:
| County | Type of CCR |
|---|---|
| Clinton | Domestic Violence High-Risk Team |
| Columbia | Task Force |
| Delaware | Task Force |
| Putnam | Domestic Violence High-Risk Team |
| Yates | Task Force |
Resources
- https://knowledgebank.criminaljustice.ny.gov/domestic-violence-high-risk-team-dvhrt
- https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/edaw-webinars/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/14124929/CCR-Toolkit.pdf
- Recommended Best Practices for Domestic Violence High Risk Teams in Massachusetts
- CCR Overview Training
- https://www.innovatingjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Coordinated-Community-Response-Definition-Fact-Sheet.pdf
- Office of Justice Programs, Develop a SART
- Wisconsin Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence, CCR Toolkit
- Colorado State University Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research, Handbook on Community Readiness Model
- Human Trafficking Community Readiness Guide
- A Guide to SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework