The Community Advocacy Project (CAP) 

Variety of Behavioral Health Settings

A program designed for and tested with female survivors of domestic abuse who have utilized shelters. Can be expanded to non-shelter users.  The program provides home-based and community-based advocacy services for survivors of intimate partner abuse. Highly trained paraprofessionals, receiving intensive supervision, work with survivors of domestic abuse (and their children), helping them obtain the community resources and social support they desire. This is an empowerment-based, strengths-focused intervention designed to increase women’s quality of life and decrease their risk of re-abuse.  The goals of are: 1) Increase children’s self-competence, 2)  Decrease women’s depression, 3) Increase women’s quality of life, 3) Increase women’s access to resources, 4) Increase women’s social support, 5) Increase women’s and children’s safety. 

Focus Population
Families, Adults
Target Problems or Risk Factors
Child Abuse and Neglect, Domestic Violence
Level of Intervention
Indicated
Settings in Which Program Can Be Delivered
Home, Social Service Agency, including public and private agencies, group homes, and shelters
Latinos in Participant Samples
Yes - Minimal (≤15%)
Type of Program
Generic
Registry
CEBC
Strength of Evidentiary Support
1-Star (⭐) CEBC - Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence Services for Victims and their Children
Cost of the Program
No
Availability of the program in Spanish and/or Portuguese
No Information
Registry URL
https://www.cebc4cw.org/program/the-community-advocacy-project/
Contact Information
Cris M. Sullivan, PhD
Michigan State University
E-mail: sulliv22@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 353-8867

Nicole Allen, PhD
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
E-mail: allenne@illinois.edu
Phone: (217) 333-6739
Website
https://cap.vaw.msu.edu/