Category | Ā | Themes | Frequency |
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Awareness | Facilitator | Connections-related constructs, perspectives, and skills (trauma-informed/relational lens) | 16 |
Life circumstances of participants, understanding their readiness for an interpersonal violence intervention | 13 | ||
Need for effective programming for families | 9 | ||
Organization | Identifying the need to build internal capacity and demonstrate a commitment to operating and sustaining the Connections intervention | 27 | |
Recognizing unhealthy relationships/ interpersonal violence as a problem for families | 9 | ||
Community | Need to build collaborative supports and resources for families in community | 9 | |
Recognizing the impact of interpersonal violence for families in the community | 5 | ||
Competency | Facilitator | Delivering the intervention safely and effectively | 15 |
Use of skills and promotion of Connections constructs | 8 | ||
Organization | Facilitate organizational changes to be consistent with Connections constructs | 27 | |
Promote, extend, and sustain Connections into the community | 3 | ||
Community | Develop collaborative partnerships and resources which enhance community capacity to respond to families | 4 | |
Collaboration | Facilitator | With participants ā insuring the intervention is available, accessible, and safe | 6 |
With co-facilitators ā working together effectively | 3 | ||
With community partners ā building relationships, facilitating referrals, sharing knowledge and resources | 5 | ||
Organization | Organization and Connections facilitators working together to support the success and sustainability of the intervention | 15 | |
Co-facilitators from different organizations working together to run the intervention | 4 | ||
Community | Sponsoring organization and community build strong and successful collaborations in the community through engagement in Connections | 11 | |
Safety | Facilitator | Attitudes ā recognizing the need for safety in relationships with families and with the organization | 4 |
Behaviour ā making the intervention a safe space for participants | 5 | ||
Organization | Participants ā shifting organizational practices to support safe and positive relationships for families | 5 | |
Facilitators ā respectful of expertise and roles of facilitators | 1 | ||
Community | Recognizing that there is a need for interpersonal violence programming for women in the community and that filling this service gap provides important support | 3 | |
Next steps | Ā | Increase impact/support changes in own organization | 7 |
Ā | Increase impact/support changes in the community | 6 | |
Ā | Pursue funding to ensure sustainability | 3 |