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Volume 3: pages 179–200<br />
March/mars 2009<br />
www.ipc.uOttawa.ca<br />
Revue de L’<br />
IPC<br />
R E V I E W<br />
Venir en aide aux enfants<br />
exposés à la violence conjugale :<br />
évaluation d’un projet pilote de<br />
collaboration intersectorielle<br />
Myriam Dubé<br />
Chercheure, CRI-VIFF<br />
Raymonde Boisvert<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essionnelle de recherche, CRI-VIFF<br />
Abstract<br />
Two health and social services networks in Montréal have been developing<br />
and implementing a protocol to guide intersectoral collaboration in cases<br />
<strong>of</strong> children exposed to domestic violence. The protocol specifies four welldefined<br />
types <strong>of</strong> collaboration: the exchange <strong>of</strong> information, personalized<br />
references, personalized transfers and clinical exchanges. Participants in<br />
the protocol come from six different institutional and community sectors:<br />
shelters for women victims <strong>of</strong> domestic violence, services geared towards<br />
abusive partners, Health and <strong>Social</strong> Services Centres, youth centres, Service<br />
Côté Cour, and the Montreal Police Services. This exploratory study assesses<br />
the implementation <strong>of</strong> the protocol in these two networks. The results show<br />
that an in-depth knowledge <strong>of</strong> the mandates <strong>of</strong> the various organizations<br />
and <strong>of</strong> how they function in practice is key to facilitating the implementation<br />
<strong>of</strong> the protocol by the participants. The author recommends involving a<br />
number <strong>of</strong> participants who are familiar with the two organizational cultures<br />
in question (community and institutional) in order to further help develop a<br />
common language that would facilitate future efforts in collaboration.