Domestic Abuse Coordinated Community Response Service

The Domestic Abuse Coordinated Community Response (DACCR) is a client-led model developed by Rotherham Rise that aims to:

Provide holistic and trauma-informed support to aid recovery with a whole-family approach.
Empower those affected by Domestic Abuse through choice, education and safety.
Focus on prevention through community and digital engagement activities and partnerships.
Utilise all networks to support people through collaboration.

DACCR is supported through extensive services, web-based support, web-bot service, digital resources, contact points and a telephone helpline.

Foundations

Supported by:

Recovery work builds confidence/independence and networks build resilience and prevent retargeting by abusers.
Tailored 1-to-1 and group work
Engagement with schools/college/community to help CYP recover form DA.
Hygge; our community café/shop/hub
Engagement Workers to drive forward our community response.
Digital resources; educational and awareness raising of forms of abuse
Recovery work builds confidence/independence and networks build resilience to prevent retargeting by abusers.

Triaged interlinked series of pathways that link risk/needs assessment, leading to individual support. This is aided by the following:

Referrals screened for risk/complex trauma.
Assessments identify needs/risks and complex trauma – informing safety/safeguarding planning.
Referral to relevant services and representation at MARAC.

We respond to the needs of both adults/children, understanding children have their own agency, their voices heard/needs addressed. 

Identify whole family/children’s needs e.g., safer child contact/CYP abuse to parent.
Extended CYP DA Service through existing externally funded providing a range of support to individual children and their parents.
Facilitate Up2U Youth programme: addresses the needs of under 18-year-olds. Evidence-based/recognises impact of DA on emotional regulation, and relationship patterns.

For Parents:

For Children & Young People:

Up and Rise; a rolling modular strengths-based programme, designed specifically for clients to enhance key life skills, daily living skills and confidence/self-esteem.
My Choice; exploring unhealthy behaviours in relationships.
Strategies to support emotional regulation/recovery.
Trauma stabilisation groups.
Positive activities that build self-esteem/confidence and resilience.
Community and social engagement.

Responding to a client’s needs at the first point of contact (all risk levels): 

Conducting assessments & safety planning
Engaging with key partners for enhanced security, where needed (e.g. fire safety, child protection and housing).
Trained and experienced staff with knowledge and skills will help to break down language/cultural barriers and promote trust and positive outcomes.

Connecting with Clients with ongoing support, adjusted if changes to risk occurs.

Reviewing Safety Plan with the client.
Supporting clients to stay in their own homes or support access to refuge, where needed.
Working in partnership with key agencies and community-based services to protect and inform clients of other types of support.
Delivering support as per each client’s needs, using preventive/early intervention measures to reduce escalation.
Continuity of care; Case Workers remain the same if risk changes.

Offering tailored programmes of support to aid recovery.

Psychoeducational/Therapeutic/Awareness Raising
Self-care/self-help/coping skills
Up2U better relationships/Youth/Family – an assessment-led intervention programme responding to individual needs and risk.
My Choice; exploring unhealthy behaviours in relationships
Trauma resilience and stabilisation classes provide clients with information of how traumatic experiences can have an impact and effect their minds, body and life.
Trauma resilience/stabilisation provides clients with information on how traumatic experiences can have an impact and affect their minds, body and life.