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A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Locals focus: on new way. to handle violence here

DUSTIN QUEZADA

SOCIAL. SERVICES ‘pro- ‘viders in’ Terrace that deal - with domestic violence is- sues were introduced to a "partnership. model that has been in place 1 in Vancouver

since 1997. .

The: “domestic violence/. ‘criminal harassment unit is” “a.50/50 partnership between the ‘Vancouver Police :De-. _ partment and Family Servic- -

eS of Greater Vancouver:

“Two unit members - -a . police officer and a counsel-' “lor.— came’to Terrace last © -week at the request of the.

Terrace” Women’s, Centre -

“to teach the model they say

Bives back to women'a mea- “sure of control in the face ‘of

domestic abuse. 5»

“Victitns get more infor-

“mation and services between the -arrest. and the convic- . tion,” “says Shawn. Coady “of the Police. “When a first ‘arrest is made, (abusers) are _feleased on conditions.”

-' While the police depart-

" "ment maintains full control °

of the investigative process,

7 ‘the counsellors consult with

the victims. :

Counsellors, like . Laura

‘Quilici, do’ what is best for

victims, ensuring they re-

‘port violations of conditions: "placed on their abusers.

“They will «come back

". and try'to convince them to

drop the charges,” Quilici says. .*

‘lence and’ police with the ‘unit do random checks to -make sure the: guidelines are

_ being followed.

-Detective/constable Co- ady says the partnership is invaluable in the confidence and trust victims gain from thaving counsellors as their igo- -between‘with police:

“Counsellors have inde- ©

-pendence and the counsel- ling sessions are confiden- tial,” Coady says. - Before tic abuse victims could file Charges against their attack- ers, but that power was shift- ed to crown counsel. It signified the justice ‘system was treating domes-

" :tic abuse as a serious crime, Says Coady. Though it was a good

‘development in his view,

- ‘Coady says it took control ~ away from women.

“Women get more con- trol back with the (condi- _tion) breach reports,” the detective says, adding it puts safety ahead of conviction.

Even so, conviction rates

-have doubled to 67 per cent.

Vacancies

at house

THE GEORGE Little House

has lost a potential basement . tenant. ‘The. Clay Artists of Ter-

race Society had been nego- tiating with the city to occu- py the bottom of the house, but it has decided against it.

_ The artist group decided the space wasn’t suitable for

its needs, said society mem- ber Patsy O’Connell.

“We looked at space, but it was barely big enough;” she said. “It’s a ‘basement with no windows and, as artists, it was not our first choice.”

| The city had. offered a

five-year lease in exchange for some renovation work, including the installation of a washroom.

Ross Milnthorp, leisure services director for the city,

_ gaid CN Rail sécurity staff

have committed to taking over a room on the top floor, already housing the Terrace Tourism Society.

That leaves the recently- opened house with two va- cancies to fill, with the food services space on the main floor also unoccupied.

House coordinator Deb-

‘bie Letawski said she has

had enquiries about the food services space.

. work, “The next step is to link

Ninety per cent of cases . _.impose conditions on .those . charged with domestic vio-.-

1986, domes- —

‘ the .

under the eight-year-old sys- tem. _ .

For Darlene Westerman of the Terrace Women’s

Centre, the model makes her hopeful for a change in the.

approach to spousal violence in Terrace. : Citing the Ksan House

Society, family justice ser- | ‘vices, ‘Women’s Centre and other

legal services, the

social. service providers, Westerman says Terrdce has the infrastructure in place to make the’ Vancouver model

those services,” she says. .

VANCOUVER POLICE officer Shawn Coady'and Vancouver counsellor Laura Quili-

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ci, in the centre, were in town June 6 to talk about how they handle domestic vio-. lence cases. With them is Darlene Westerman from the Terrace Women’s Resource "= DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO

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