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Receive a presentation from Solano Partnership Against Violence (SPAV) on its 2019 Action Plan for improving local prevention and intervention efforts amongst victim service providers
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The District Attorney's Office (DA) recommends the Board receive a presentation from Solano Partnership Against Violence (SPAV) on its 2019 Action Plan for improving local prevention and intervention efforts amongst victim service providers.
SUMMARY:
The Solano Partnership Against Violence (SPAV) is an advisory board to the County Board of Supervisors and as such, its members are appointed by the Board. SPAV was created in 1991 as a group of concerned professionals who convened monthly brown bag lunch meetings to discuss improving service delivery by public and private agencies to those affected by domestic violence. In 1995, it became the County's domestic violence task force planning body and was designated an independent entity operating as a Countywide task force on family and domestic violence by the Board of Supervisors (BOS) in April 1996. It was further designated as the Solano County Domestic Violence Prevention Council by the Board in August 1999, becoming eligible for County staff assistance, and thus began its relationship with the County's Office of Family Violence Prevention (OFVP). In August 2007, SPAV underwent a significant change in its membership, and this group established SPAV's first Strategic Plan, which was presented to the Board in June 2008.
Today, SPAV's purpose is to develop a more comprehensive and systemic approach to ending family violence in Solano County by: A) Providing a forum for interagency cooperation and coordination in the prevention, detection, treatment and legal processing of family violence cases; B) Promoting public awareness of family violence and resources available for intervention a...
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