ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a description of a partial, model for smaller jurisdictions, such as ours in Sudbury, Ontario, seeking to achieve synergies with limited resources. When numerous agencies brought their own resources to the table to initiate a new collaborative approach to addressing domestic violence, innovations were possible. The chapter describes a snapshot of the collaborative process itself. A preliminary qualitative interview guide was developed to provide a snapshot of each agency’s work in the field of domestic violence, familiarity with existing intervention and support programs in the community, and challenges to collaboration. The City of Greater Sudbury is a smaller city in northeastern Ontario with a population of roughly 160,000 residents, 30 percent of whom identify as francophone and 6 percent as Indigenous. The local initiative was intended to create a model continuum of services for men at risk for committing or repeating intimate partner abuse and to address identified gaps in local community responses to domestic violence.
