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World CafÉ

Ontario Network of Sexual Assault /Domestic Violence Treatment Centres. World CafÉ. What is a World Café?. A method to create deep discussion. A way to explore questions that really matter. An opportunity to change our standard questions, and so get different answers.

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World CafÉ

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  1. Ontario Network of Sexual Assault /Domestic Violence Treatment Centres World CafÉ

  2. What is a World Café? • A method to create deep discussion. • A way to explore questions that really matter. • An opportunity to change our standard questions, and so get different answers.

  3. Why hold a World Café? • To go beyond first-level conversation. • To create new links among people. • To share what is most meaningful to each participant. • To give ourselves the gift of genuinely listening. • To give each other the gift of being heard.

  4. The purpose of this conference is • to engage in meaningful • discussions that • challenge our practice, • stimulate choices for care and • change our understanding • of issues related to sexual • assault and domestic violence.

  5. What makes a good World Café? • Listen well. • Protect “safe space”. • Record what is • most important to you.

  6. How does it work? • 3 rounds of conversation, with a different topic question for each one. • Table hosts ensure everyone has a chance to speak. • Use markers on paper table covers to record your thoughts and images. • Hosts post the note sheets at the end of each round. • Précis tomorrow afternoon.

  7. 3 Discussion Rounds • based on the conference theme: • Challenges • Choices • Changes

  8. Challenges

  9. Challenges • What issues, opportunities, etc. are you facing? • Nurses – recruitment, retention, shift coverage, ongoing education requirements. • Skill and training – to avoid further trauma to child and women, while preserving the chain of evidence to pursue charges. • Violence – effects of exposure; e.g., burn-out, emotional reactions, numbness: how achieve self-care? • Funding cuts – reducing service, professional education, fewer shifts when violence occurs (weekends); no pay incentive to acquire additional certification and responsibilities. • Systemic barriers – e.g., Union contract terms for on-call hours reduce nurses’ availability; little pay scale mobility, which reduces retention. continued ...

  10. Challenges • continued • Cooperation and jurisdiction -- between and among agencies, professions; professional differences of opinion (e.g., HIV anti-viral protocol). • Long-term effect – on victims (i.e. rape kit, repeated court appearances, abuser avoids punishment, women/children must relocate, etc.) • Barriers for victims– language, culture, money, blame the victim attitudes, fear of further abuse as a consequence of reporting, shame. • Societal circumstances – continuing pattern of violence against women (deaths); women emerging as abusers. • “Issue creep”– mandate for one service, but other issues surface and become (more) important; e.g., help the individual or the family?

  11. Choices • What choices have we made to date to deal with our challenges? • Are these “best practices” that we want to share with others in the room? • Rise above details: Ask each other “deep”, probing questions.

  12. Changes • What new choices would you have to make to get the results you want? • What changes in attitudes, actions, resources, arrangements, agreements, etc. would this require? • You are creating a high-level action plan: brainstorm to help each other.

  13. THANK YOU! Carol J. Sutton Cert.ConRes. 604-946-3922 carol@cjscom.com CJS Communications Inc., Delta, British Columbia

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