Online Survey: Deaf Community Accountability Model

We need your feedback by June 29!

A Deaf Community Accountability Model was recently developed. It provides examples of how the Deaf community, allies, and service providers can work together to respond to domestic violence by supporting survivors and holding abusers responsible for their abusive actions.

Deaf Community Accountability Model (Wheel & Text) (PDF)

Deaf Community Accountability Model ONLINE SURVEY

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Dear Community Members:

We, at Advocacy Services for Abused Deaf Victims (ASADV), would like your input regarding the Deaf Community Accountability Wheel (DCA) that we recently developed. We believe this model represents examples of how the Deaf community, allies, and service providers may work together to support survivors of domestic violence and hold abusers accountable. Violence against women, men, and children can only be stopped when members of our respective communities step up and hold abusers accountable for their abusive actions.

Community Accountability is community-based and involves collective action strategies to address violence through prevention and intervention. The original Community Accountability model was developed by Mike Jackson and David Garvin (2003), which we adapted with permission, to fit ideal community responses to the issues of domestic violence in the Deaf community. We introduced this model in our “Community Accountability in the Deaf Community” article, published in National Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s The Voice: A Journal of the Battered Women’s Movement (Fall, 2011).

This model is a starting point and is not final. This is where you come into the picture. Please click on the link to view the Deaf Community Accountability model. It is a visual model with informative text that explains each group/section of the model.  Please also take our survey and share your feedback and opinions about the model.

It is our goal to reach at least 200 responses. Your responses will help us improve the model and finalize it (although we realize it may always be a work in progress). This model may be used for educational and systemic purposes for individuals, communities, and organizations/institutions. We are also aiming to create a storybook depicting this model. Your feedback will benefit this project and contribute positively to the Deaf community as well as the domestic violence field. More specifically, your support will help the Deaf community as well as allies and service providers develop appropriate and supportive responses to domestic violence.

Please join us in making a difference in this community effort by completing the survey and returning your responses by Friday, June 29, 2012.

Thank you very much for your time and support!

Aimee K. Whyte, Director of Community Education & Counseling, Aimee.Whyte@asadv.org

Erin Esposito, Executive Director, Erin.Esposito@asadv.org