COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION

PREVENTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

African family culture is built around the values of a patriarch society, in which the male is the head of the family and dominates decision making. This belief has been confronted by the Australia family culture of egalitarian society where the decision making in the family is based on gender balance and equality of women and men.

Consequently, the later concept of a family has created frictions in the African family which end up as domestic violence practice. GLAPD recognizant of the existence of the two paradigms of family culture, has always intervened to encourage families to speak up when certain tendencies of domestic violence appear in their families, we facilitate conversations between parties as a primary stage of mediation and resolution. We provide casework services to the victims and employ options of mediation and resolution. We provide referral to more competent services

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