SANTA CRUZ COUNTY

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COMMISSION

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT/ANNUAL REPORT COMMITTEE

 

MINUTES

 

Meeting Date: August 14, 2002 4:00 PM

Location: Commission for the Prevention of Violence Against Women (CPVAW)

915 Cedar Street

Santa Cruz, CA  95060

 

  1. Call to Order

Recommendation: Approve Alan Hiromura as vice chair to the committee, replacing Lisa Gifford who resigned from the DV Commission.

Committee chair Laurie McWhorter called the meeting to order at 4:15 PM. Committee members present: David Rabow, Linda Starn, Alan Hiromura, Ernesto Lopez-Molina, and Kim Austin. Paula Gammel notified us that she couldn’t make the meeting. Alan Hiromura was approved as Vice Chair: D. Rabow/L. Starn/unanimous.

 

  1. Additions or Deletions to the Agenda

None.

 

  1. Oral Communications from the Community

None.

 

  1. Approval of the June 12 and June 19 minutes.

Both Approved: A. Hiromura/D. Rabow/unanimous (with E. Lopez-Molina abstaining).

 

  1. Clarify goal of collecting data.

Recommendation: To create a goal statement that will guide us through this work and serve to inspire participants to eagerly comply. I.e. The goal of this survey tool is to reduce/end domestic violence in SC County. The questions asked serve to assess the current situation so that informed actions can be taken to reach our goal.

Goal Statement: To gather information to provide to the DV Commission and community to assist in developing strategies to reduce and/or end domestic violence in Santa Cruz County.

A. Hiromura/L. Starn/unanimous.

 

  1. Given what we learned from the informal survey and what we think we need to know to reach our goal, what are the questions we want to ask?
    Recommendation: 1.Go over each question in the revised Overview Report and decide yes or no. 2. Some other system.

The committee decided to use recommendation #1 in conjunction with the 3 screening questions created by A. Hiromura: 1.  Why does the DV Commission need the information? 2.  From which agency(ies) can we collect the data? If none, is it important enough that we ask the Commission to request the agency (ies) to collect that information? 3.  How will the DV Commission use the data?

 

Task 2. A. from the Overview Report:

Reporting DV Cases (Law enforcement)

The 3 questions were reduced to one and adjusted as follows: 

# of DV incidents/month/agency/ethnicity/age/language/gender/children

D. Rabow and K. Austin will report back about how to word a question regarding the stats of children affected.

 

Screening ? 1: Why do we need this info:

#

Need to know how much of an issue DV is…getting worse or better.

Month

Trends/ when DV is more on rise/ take extra actions then.

Agency

Will give general geographical location via jurisdiction

Ethnicity

Who is underserved/ compare with census as to # reporting

Language

Help determine need for bilingual services

Age

Trends/ how to educate

Gender

Violent women or self-defense issues/ # of arrests are disproportionate to # of no-file according to gender/ enough services for male victims

Children

To determine the number of children affected by DV in their lives.


Screening ? 2. From which agency(ies) can we collect the data? If none, is it important enough that we ask the Commission to request the agency (ies) to collect that information?

We want from all law enforcement agencies

Need to ask them to obtain if they don’t have.

All 4 municipalities

They have

Parks

Not sure their technical capabilities

Harbor

Small enough load, should be able to do by hand.

UCSC

Not sure their technical capabilities


Screening ? 3.  How will the DV Commission use the data?

Same as answers to Screening ?  1. above.

 

  1. Review Proposed timeline

Recommendation: review proposed timeline, revise, approve.

The timeline was revised and approved. See attached document.

A. Hiromura/K. Austin/unanimous.

 

  1. Report to the general Commission
    Recommendation: Decide to handout the written report, and/or the overview report, or just verbal report.

The chair will give a verbal only report at the August 14 general meeting.

  1. Announcements

None.

 

  1. Schedule next meeting

Thursday, August 29th, 11a.m. – 1p.m.  at the CPVAW office.

 

  1. Closing

Members gave final remarks. 

 

  1. Official adjournment

The meeting adjourned at 5:25 p.m.