TY  - BOOK
AU  - Macvean, Michelle
AU  - Humphreys, Cathy
AU  - Healey, Lucy
AU  - Albers, Bianca
AU  - Mildon, Robyn
AU  - Connolly, Marie
AU  - Parolini, Arno
AU  - Spada-Rinaldis, Sophia
TI  - The PATRICIA Project: PAThways and Research In Collaborative Inter-Agency working: state of knowledge paper
SN  - 2204-9665
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Sydney, NSW
PB  - ANROWS, 
KW  - FAMILY VIOLENCE
KW  - SEXUAL VIOLENCE
KW  - CHILD PROTECTION
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - FAMILY LAW
KW  - INTERAGENCY COLLABORATION
KW  - INTERVENTION
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - JUSTICE
KW  - LITERATURE REVIEWS
KW  - SOCIAL SERVICES
KW  - SUPPORT SERVICES
KW  - AUSTRALIA
N1  - ANROWS Landscapes, Issue 14, November 2015
N2  - This paper presents the state of knowledge on practices or processes used by child protection services and specialist domestic violence services or family law services to work better together and improve service responses for women and children living with and separating from family violence.

A framework of interagency working was used to help identify the types of interagency components – including infrastructure and service components – involved in each model. Processes taken to support or facilitate the interface with child protection were also considered.

The paper identified 24 models of interagency working involving some degree of child protection involvement. It found that while working together towards similar goals for families seems a logical way of improving processes to reduce fragmentation, gaps, overlap and redundancies in service provision, there is currently insufficient evidence that these changes improve outcomes for children and families. 

Key recommendations arising from this paper include investing more funding and support into evaluation and implementation of models, and considering evidence for interagency models outside this field where there may have been more rigorous evaluations.  (from the website). Record #4868
UR  - http://anrows.org.au/publications/landscapes/the-patricia-project-pathways-in-research-in-collaborative-inter-agency
UR  - https://anrows.org.au/the-patricia-project-pathways-and-research-in-collaborative-inter-agency-working
ER  -