Blueprint for Safety
An Interagency Response to Battering and Crimes of Domestic Violence
The Blueprint for Safety is a framework for preventing deaths and reducing the harm caused by battering. The Blueprint coordinates agency responses across the criminal legal system and outlines each practitioner’s role and responsibilities. This unified, strategic response to domestic violence is designed to increase safety for victims and ensure justice.
What is The Blueprint for Safety?
Who authored the grant?
Hope’s Wings Domestic Violence Program and the City of Richmond have received a grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women to implement a Blueprint for Safety: An Interagency Response to Battering and Crimes of Domestic Violence.
Hope’s Wings was selected as one of five grantees nationwide to receive a 36-month award. The project will be a collaborative effort of criminal justice agencies, including: 911, Richmond Police Department, Berea Police Department, Eastern Kentucky University Police Department, Madison County Sheriff’s Office, the Madison County Attorney’s Office and the Commonwealth Attorney’s Office, Pretrial Services, Madison County Detention Center, and Probation and Parole.
Who are the collaborators?
What is the goal?
This is a fantastic opportunity to team-up with local agencies that want to prevent, prosecute offenders, and protect victims of domestic violence. Our goal is to keep Madison County residents safe and we have just made another great stride to secure that goal.
The Blueprint for Safety was created by the City of St. Paul, Minnesota in 2010, with leadership by the St. Paul Police Department, the St. Paul Intervention Project and Praxis International. The Office on Violence Against Women funded a national adaptation demonstration initiative to test the adaptability of the model in three distinct jurisdictions and, in October 2015, announced awards to five new communities to implement the innovative approach to reducing domestic violence crimes.
Who created The Blueprint?
More information
More information on the national Blueprint for Safety can be found here: http://praxisinternational.org/bp_home.aspx