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OUR SERVICES & PROGRAMS OFFERED

R.O.A.M is an organisation that has joined the fight against women and child abuse. R.O.A.M stands for Rehabilitation Of Abusive Men.

Abuser's Intervention Program (A.I.P)

An abuser’s Intervention program is a program that abusers attend, usually as part of the legal system response to an act of domestic violence. An AIP can play an important role in a co-ordinated response to domestic violence, but it is important that victim safety and offender accountability remain the primary goals of a AIP.

  • To ensure safety for the partners of group participants in the program.
  • To work to end domestic violence by creating a culture of deterrence.
  • To ensure the program is collaborating with the justice system, human service providers, and battered women’s programs.
  • To teach offenders alternatives to coercive, controlling, and violent behaviour in intimate relationships.

Domestic Violence Safety Dialogue (D.V.S.D)

The Domestic Violence Safety Dialogue program; an innovative, restorative justice approach to healing the effects of domestic violence and empowering survivors of DV (and offenders in many cases) to move forward in life and end the cycle of violence.

  • Each participant will engage in ONE dialogue with an unrelated survivor or offender.
  • Each dialogue will include six people
  • One survivor (unrelated to offender)
  • One offender (unrelated to survivor)
  • One personal advocate- such as a counsellor- per participant
  • Two DVSD trained facilitators- usually one male and one female
  • Date and time of the dialogue are mutually agreed upon
  • The location of the dialogue is determined by the survivor
  • Session length is determined by participants
  • Each participant tells his or her story
  • Each participant gets the chance to ask questions after the stories.

Restorative Justice (R.J)

Restorative justice is an approach to justice that aims to involve the parties to a dispute and others affected by the harm (victims, offenders, families, etc) in collectively identifying harms, needs, and obligations through accepting responsibilities, make restitution, and taking measures to prevent a recurrence of the incident and promoting reconciliation.

  • Preventing re-offending
  • Empowering victims
  • Benefiting criminal justice agencies
  • Enhance community involvement in the dispute resolution process

Objectives...

R.O.A.M has TWO primary objectives,
(1) to rehabilitate domestic violent offenders and
(2) to give voice to victims who have been victimised by domestic violence.
We aim to bring peace and understanding in the household and heal wounds caused by the offence, specifically emotional wounds.
We are devoted to teach offenders accountability and the impact their actions have internally and externally.
We aim to educate people that domestic violence is criminal offence and the impact it has to victims directly has enormous consequences.





PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Groups at R.O.A.M are co-facilitated by a male and female group leader. One advantage of this approach is that abusive men are more likely to exhibit their negative attitudes towards women in the presence of a female group leader. Particularly in the beginning stages of the program, they are more apt to interrupt, challenge or ignore their female group leaders. Abusive men’s more negative responses to female group leaders are helpful since we can call attention to them as they are happening in group. These group behaviours can be likened to the men’s negative actions and attitudes toward their partners. Another advantage of male-female co-facilitation is that it offers a model for male-female cooperation and sharing of leadership. We believe this modelling to be of equal importance to the content of our educational curriculum in terms of what we are teaching our clients. Ideally, this modelling enables clients to observe how men can listen to, share power, solve problems, negotiate time, and communicate with women. R.O.A.M therefore devotes considerable attention, in staff meetings and supervision sessions, to helping group leaders consider how they are modelling male-female co-leadership.

OUR CONFIDENTIALITY CLAUSE

Please read through these points and familiarize yourself with the details below that outline our t's and c's on confidentiality

  • When a man wishes to join a program for men who abuses, he should be require to sign a contract prior to participating.
    • This contract should explain to him that he is joining an educational program, not a therapeutic program and therefore he will not have the same level of confidentiality that he would be guaranteed in mental health services.
  • The program WILL NOT promise him confidentiality with respect to:
    • His current partner...
    • The woman toward whom he was violent to in the incident he was prosecuted for (who may not be his current partner)...
    • Any past partner whom he has children with...
    • His court’s probation department...
    • His state’s community’s child protective service, if his participation in the BIP is mandated or requested by that service...
    • His local police department...
    • The program for battered women serving the area where he lives or where his current ex-partner lives...
    • Any individual to whom we believe is in imminent danger of serious harm due to your actions...
  • The contract should inform him that with respect to the above individuals or institutions, the program will release information as it considers it necessary to do so to promote:
    • Victim safety...
    • Abuser accountability...
    • To avoid any harm coming to the victim or her children...
  • The program WILL promise confidentiality with respect to:
    • The general public
    • News media
    • Anyone else not covered in the exceptions in the previous list.
  • Within these limitations, we will take his confidentiality very seriously in order to protect his privacy, the privacy of his current or past partners, and the privacy of any children who are involved.

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WHO

WE ARE

R.O.A.M is an organisation that has joined the fight against women and child abuse. R.O.A.M stands for Rehabilitation Of Abusive Men.

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OUR MISSION:

  • Our primary and foremost mission is to ensure the safety of both women and children.
  • We find it very important that women and children are to be safe and no harm comes to them during the course of the program.
  • Our second and equally important mission is to help men stop being abusive towards their families.
  • We set out programs to teach them accountability, avoid making the victim(s) feel as if the abuse was their fault and teach them better ways to resolve conflict in the household.

OUR VISION:

  • Our vision is to create an abusive free environment.
  • To help families build stronger bonds and for children to grow up in a abusive free household.

OUR GOALS:

  • Our goal is to combine three different strategies to help rehabilitate abusive men, namely:
    • Batterer's Intervention Program
    • Domestic Violence Safety Dialogue
    • Restorative Justice.

BIP+DVSD+RJ=rehabilitation of abusive men

HEAD OFFICE

R.O.A.M SA

48 Goldreich street, JHB, 2094
South Africa

Tel: 079 672 5286

Email: info@roamsa.org.za
Web: www.roamsa.org.za

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